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MURDER MELODY
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter 1. DEAD MAN'S MESSAGE
? Chapter 2. THE FLYING CORPSE
? Chapter 3. LANTA IS SEIZED
? Chapter 4. THE GREAT DIAMOND
? Chapter 5. SNATCHED INTO SPACE
? Chapter 6. THE GIRL ON THE ICE
? Chapter 7. THE BEWITCHED SHIP
? Chapter 8. PRISON JACKETS
? Chapter 9. A SHIP IN THE NIGHT
? Chapter 10. THE "NARWHAL" ANCHORS
? Chapter 11. CAPTIVES OF LANTA
? Chapter 12. THE DEEPEST OCEAN
? Chapter 13. THROUGH THE EARTH
? Chapter 14. IN SUBTERRANAE
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? Chapter 16. SCIENTIST FUGITIVES
? Chapter 17. DOC'S SHIP CRASHES
? Chapter 18. ALL THE KING'S MEN FAIL
? Chapter 19. THE MISPLACED BLAST
? Chapter 20. LAND OF TOMORROW


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Chapter 1. DEAD MAN'S MESSAGE
THE earth shook. Tall fir trees swayed. Brittle branches snapped. Loosened stones clattered from a lighted
tower. These bounded and plummeted several hundred feet. They splashed in a turmoil of white-slashed blue
water.

The tower was a government lookout station. It was concreted at the peak of a rocky wall. Lights of red and
white knifed alternately into the misted darkness. Their timed luminance guided shipping into and out of
Burrard Inlet, the canyon-deep harbor of Vancouver. Their radiance could be picked up far out over the Bay of
Georgia.

On a trail hewn through the firs back of the lookout tower a tall man staggered, holding his balance. His
compactly knitted figure seemed to have been poured into his garments. Small bulbs of incandescence were
haloed by the fog. These were spaced at intervals of perhaps a hundred yards along the woodland trail.

This dim illumination revealed the passage of some inner pain across the man's regularly molded features.
His face was of the smoothest texture. He might have been an actor grease-painted with a silvery mixture.
Even in this misted gloom it glowed strangely.