"Mystery story" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... This mystery story of a New York apartment house is now in its seventh printing, has been republished in England and translated into German and Italian. With ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... rains. Some one threw away a cigar-end. The wet road shining in the glare of our pink candles, and the lightning flashing intermittently so that the mountain-tops sprang out to disappear again in the darkness; we felt as if we were living in the introduction of a mystery story from the Strand Magazine. ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon
... try to talk to those little Guineys. Their boss wouldn't let 'em say a word and you'd lose your chance of watching 'em. Make it a kind of a mystery story." ...
— The Harbor • Ernest Poole |
