The Mystery of the Thirteenth Floor

ISBN: 9781330464465 出版年：2016 页码：405 Lee Thayer Forgotten Books

He must have been seventy years old at least, but, as he sat there dictating his last will and testament, his gray head was erect, his steel-gray eyes never wavered in their fixed gaze, and there was no sign of weakness in his hard, almost cruel, mouth. Only a few wrinkles around the corners of his eyes and mouth betrayed the grim humor that was characteristic of the man — a biting humor which had made many a timid witness wince and the barbed arrows of which had been driven into friend and toe alike and left there, quivering.