
In the Onyx Lobby
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The Campanile was a fashionable apartment building in the heart of Manhattan. It was known for its elaborate façade and an ornate lobby featuring large onyx pillars. It was a perfectly respectable place with perfectly respectable well to do tenants, that is until one of them, Sir Herbert Binney, owner of the well known Binney’s Bun company is found dead in its lobby, clutching a paper on which he had scrawled “women did it.” But which women? The chorus girls of which Sir Herbert was so fond? Girls from the building’s staff with whom he had taken liberties? Or the two middle-aged women who had ...
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- IN THE ONYX LOBBY
- Author of “The Man Who Fell Through the Earth,” “The Room With the Tassels,” “Faulkner’s Folly,” etc. NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- CONTENTS
- IN THE ONYX LOBBY
- CHAPTER I
- Such a Feud!
- CHAPTER II
- A Tricky Game
- CHAPTER III
- The Scrawled Message
- (Handwritten note): women did this get [unreadable]
- CHAPTER IV
- The Busy Police
- CHAPTER V
- Who Were the Women?
- CHAPTER VI
- The Little Dinner
- CHAPTER VII
- Enlightening Interviews
- CHAPTER VIII
- Julie Baxter
- CHAPTER IX
- The Library Set
- CHAPTER X
- Seek the Women
- CHAPTER XI
- The Old Feud
- CHAPTER XII
- One Woman and Another
- CHAPTER XIII
- Motives
- CHAPTER XIV
- Penny Wise
- CHAPTER XV
- And Zizi
- CHAPTER XVI
- Testimony
- CHAPTER XVII
- A Woman Scorned
- CHAPTER XVIII
- Fitted to a T
- THE END
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