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DEATH ABOUT TOWN
Maxwell Grant
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? CHAPTER I. DEATH AROUND THE CORNER
? CHAPTER II. THE LAW DECIDES
? CHAPTER III. THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
? CHAPTER IV. ACCEPTED TERMS
? CHAPTER V. AT THE AVENUE CLUB
? CHAPTER VI. THE DOUBLE TRAIL
? CHAPTER VII. DEATH ON THE MARCH
? CHAPTER VIII. THE MISSING KILLER
? CHAPTER IX. CRIME'S PROOF
? CHAPTER X. CRIME'S INTERLUDE
? CHAPTER XI. WAYS IN THE DARK
? CHAPTER XII. CHARGED BATTLE
? CHAPTER XIII. AFTER THE BATTLE
? CHAPTER XIV. THE FORCED CHOICE
? CHAPTER XV. THE NEEDED TRAIL
? CHAPTER XVI. DROPS OF BLOOD
? CHAPTER XVII. ELECTED: A KILLER
? CHAPTER XVIII. THE GAME THAT TURNED
? CHAPTER XIX. DEATH AMONG FRIENDS
? CHAPTER XX. PROOF OF MURDER



CHAPTER I. DEATH AROUND THE CORNER
WHEN Dana Orvill stepped from the elevator in the Avenue Club, an attendant approached and handed
him a message. It was the sort of message that caused Orvill to lift his eyebrows and give his cane a
casual twirl.

The message stated, simply:

Hotel Bayberry. Seven thirty. Side door.

That was all, and it was quite enough. Orvill did not expect people to add their names to telephone
messages that they sent him. For Dana Orvill, dapper to the waxed points of his mustache, was the
perfect man-about-town, and preferred blind dates.

Not only was Orvill a member of the swanky Avenue Club and vice chairman of its governing committee;
he also belonged to an elite social set, which, like all such sets, had its petty ways and jealousies.
Preposterous though it might be, certain men in that group mistrusted Dana Orvill. They regarded him as
a ladies' man - a middle-aged Lothario who thrived on feminine sighs.
Hence, rather than run into trouble from the male contingent, Orvill always advised his lady friends - past,
present, and future - to choose a quiet out-of-the-way meeting place whenever they felt that life was
becoming unendurable without the company of Dana Orvill.