THE RAYNER-SLADE AMALGAMATION

Download or read book THE RAYNER-SLADE AMALGAMATION written by J.S. FLETCHER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1922 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About eleven o'clock on the night of Monday, May 12, 1914, Marshall Allerdyke, a bachelor of forty, a man of great mental and physical activity, well known in Bradford as a highly successful manufacturer of dress goods, alighted at the Central Station in that city from an express which had just arrived from Manchester, where he had spent the day on business. He had scarcely set foot on the platform when he was confronted by his chauffeur, a young man in a neat dark-green livery, who took his master's travelling rug in one hand, while with the other he held out an envelope.....