The House Opposite: A Mystery
Format: ebook
ASIN: 16218969
Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Opening: What I am about to relate occurred but a few years ago—in the summer of ’99, in fact. You may remember that the heat that year was something fearful. Even old New Yorkers, inured by the sufferings of many summers, were overcome by it, and everyone who could, fled from the city. On the parti...