A Voice Like Velvet

by Donald Henderson

  Reaching his work, he dismissed the whole incident from his mind. It was nothing to do with him and there had been quite enough murder in recent years.

  He heard the bell ring where he worked, and he was a sad man and it made something stir very vaguely in his head. But he smiled to himself and thought a bit whimsically about Shakespeare, whom he loved. He smiled and thought, The bell invites me! And he thought, dramatically:

  Hear it not, Duncan! For, it is a knell that summons thee to Heaven! Or—to Hell!

  THE END

  THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB

  E. C. BENTLEY • TRENT’S LAST CASE • TRENT INTERVENES

  E. C. BENTLEY & H. WARNER ALLEN • TRENT’S OWN CASE

  ANTHONY BERKELEY • THE WYCHFORD POISONING CASE • THE SILK STOCKING MURDERS

  ERNEST BRAMAH • THE BRAVO OF LONDON

  LYNN BROCK • NIGHTMARE

  BERNARD CAPES • THE MYSTERY OF THE SKELETON KEY

  AGATHA CHRISTIE • THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD • THE BIG FOUR

  WILKIE COLLINS • THE MOONSTONE

  HUGH CONWAY • CALLED BACK • DARK DAYS

  EDMUND CRISPIN • THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY

  FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS • THE CASK • THE PONSON CASE • THE PIT-PROP SYNDICATE • THE GROOTE PARK MURDER

  MAURICE DRAKE • THE MYSTERY OF THE MUD FLATS

  FRANCIS DURBRIDGE • BEWARE OF JOHNNY WASHINGTON

  J. JEFFERSON FARJEON • THE HOUSE OPPOSITE

  RUDOLPH FISHER • THE CONJURE-MAN DIES

  FRANK FROËST • THE GRELL MYSTERY

  FRANK FROËST & GEORGE DILNOT • THE CRIME CLUB • THE ROGUES’ SYNDICATE

  EMILE GABORIAU • THE BLACKMAILERS

  ANNA K. GREEN • THE LEAVENWORTH CASE

  DONALD HENDERSON • MR BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER

  FERGUS HUME • THE MILLIONAIRE MYSTERY

  GASTON LEROUX • THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM

  VERNON LODER • THE MYSTERY AT STOWE • THE SHOP WINDOW MURDERS

  PHILIP MACDONALD • THE RASP • THE NOOSE • THE RYNOX MYSTERY • MURDER GONE MAD • THE MAZE

  NGAIO MARSH • THE NURSING HOME MURDER

  G. ROY McRAE • THE PASSING OF MR QUINN

  R. A. V. MORRIS • THE LYTTLETON CASE

  ARTHUR B. REEVE • THE ADVENTURESS

  JOHN RHODE • THE PADDINGTON MYSTERY

  FRANK RICHARDSON • THE MAYFAIR MYSTERY

  R. L. STEVENSON • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

  J. V. TURNER • BELOW THE CLOCK

  EDGAR WALLACE • THE TERROR

  ISRAEL ZANGWILL • THE PERFECT CRIME

  FURTHER TITLES IN PREPARATION

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