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The Cinema Murder
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Title: The Cinema Murder
Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
Release Date: December 3, 2003 [EBook #10371]
Language: English
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THE CINEMA MURDER
BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
1917
CHAPTER I
With a somewhat prolonged grinding of the brakes and an unnecessary amount of fuss in the way of letting off steam, the afternoon train from London came to a standstill in the station at Detton Magna. An elderly porter, putting on his coat as he came, issued, with the dogged aid of one bound by custom to perform a hopeless mission, from the small, redbrick lamp room. The station master, occupying a position of vantage in front of the shed which enclosed the booking office, looked up and down the lifeless row of closed and streaming windows, with an expectancy dulled by daily disappointment, for the passengers who seldom alighted. On this occasion no records were broken. A solitary young man stepped out on to the wet and flinty platform, handed over the half of a third-c