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"From somewhere in the depths of that great hotel came a wailing cry."

The Death Cry

By ARTHUR B. REEVE

A sensational weird detective murder-mystery,
featuring Craig Kennedy

1. Death Screams Once

The Three Pines Hotel stood high on the mountainside in the heart of the Catskills, a gaunt and rambling structure that loomed ghost-like and white in the night. Moonlight filtered weakly through the great pines that towered over it; and this moonlight—bluish haze in the night—gave the hotel a weird and forbidding aspect.

It was the third week of the summer season; yet from the hotel came no music

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