Books with author By (author) Isabel Ostrander

This carefully edited collection of mystery novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Isabel Egenton Ostrander (1883–1924) was a British mystery writer of the early twentieth century who used, besides her own name, the pseudonyms Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox, and Douglas Grant. In 1920s she was notable enough to be parodied by Agatha Christie in Partners in Crime, a Tommy and Tuppence mystery that parodies many of Christie's idols. Content: One Thirty The Crevice Island of Intrigue Anything Once The Fifth Ace

(...)"and accurate household accountant, intelligentamanuensis, willing and obliging. Amount ofsalary optional. Address Miss Betty Shaw, 160Wakefield Avenue."The girl read the advertisement for the twentieth time, then dropped the newspaper upon the shabbily ornate center table with a shrug of impatience, a frown gathering between her level brows.The boarding house parlor was shrouded in gloom, and outside the window whirling snowflakes showed white against the deepening dusk. A little heap of torn envelopes and a card or two upon the7mantel bore evidence that the naive appeal had evoked response, yet it was with a hopeless gesture that the girl turned from them and began pacing the floor, her brooding eyes fixed as though they would pierce the shadows which crept about her.(...)"

This carefully crafted ebook: "ISABEL OSTRANDER Premium Collection – Mystery & Western Classics: One Thirty, The Crevice, Anything Once, The Fifth Ace & Island of Intrigue" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Isabel Egenton Ostrander (1883–1924) was a British mystery writer of the early twentieth century who used, besides her own name, the pseudonyms Robert Orr Chipperfield, David Fox, and Douglas Grant. In 1920s she was notable enough to be parodied by Agatha Christie in Partners in Crime, a Tommy and Tuppence mystery that parodies many of Christie's idols.Content:One ThirtyThe CreviceIsland of IntrigueAnything OnceThe Fifth Ace

(...)"THE rain, which fell in slanting sheets, pelting like hail upon the narrow, broken sidewalks, and swirling along the gutters in an unstemmed tide of yellowish foam, beat relentlessly upon a group of bedraggled little figures winding their way down the long hill to the town. Their frail bodies bent and swayed soddenly in the face of that blinding, drenching onslaught, their poor soaked garments clung miserably to their gaunt limbs, and the small feet sloughed up and down drearily in their battered shoes. Yet they trudged on apathetically, without haste, on their dulled faces only a look of dogged weariness. The children were coming home from the mills.Now and then, one of the smallest would lag back, and then (...)".