The Hand of Peril (Classic Reprint)1kg Limited, Jan 26, 2018 - 338 pages Excerpt from The Hand of Peril He sat watching her; as his many years in the service had taught him always to watch his quarry, with that casual and intermittent glance, with that discreet obliquity, which could so easily be interpreted as the idle curiosity of an idle-minded Sightseer. Yet Kestner, at the moment, was anything but idle minded. At each apparently casual side-glance his quick eye was picking up some new point, very much as a magnet catches up its iron filings. So that's our woman! He finally murmured. He spoke without emotion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
