Project Gutenberg 2011-03-05 Public domain in the USA. 85 Bonner, Geraldine 1870 1930 Steele, Frederic Dorr 1873 1944 Steele, Frederick Dorr 16004388 The Black Eagle Mystery Darleen Dove, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Black Eagle Mystery" by Geraldine Bonner is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds around the perplexing suicide of a prominent lawyer, Hollings Harland, which sends ripples through the world of finance and leads to a series of investigations delving into deception, love, and financial ruin. Central characters include Molly Morgenthau Babbitts, a former telephone girl turned detective, and her husband Babbitts, who works as a reporter trying to piece together the web of intrigue involving Harland, his associates, and a powerful financier, Johnston Barker. The opening of the novel introduces us to Molly and her husband as they discuss the shocking news of Harland’s suicide, which takes place after a heated confrontation with Barker—who subsequently disappears. As they delve into the mystery, they explore the ramifications of the suicide on various characters around Harland, including Iola Barry, who works in an office on a floor just below the scene of the tragedy, and Miss Whitehall, a businesswoman whose fate becomes intertwined with these events. The narrative captures the initial reactions to the calamity, setting a suspenseful tone as Molly becomes drawn to uncovering the truth behind Harland’s death and Barker’s connections to it. The chapter sets the stage for a gripping tale filled with twists and revelations that challenge the characters' perceptions and motivations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/35484/35484-rst/images/cover.jpg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35484/35484-rst/images/cover.jpg en Detective and mystery stories American fiction -- 20th century PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 457026 456929 2024-09-15T05:44:35.842893 2023-09-15T11:20:58.949087 text/html text/html 1012469 2021-04-10T04:52:14 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 459314 2021-04-10T04:51:06 text/html 1200164 2024-09-15T05:44:43.687835 application/epub+zip 1200651 2024-09-15T05:44:37.513871 application/epub+zip 256472 2024-09-15T05:44:36.662866 application/epub+zip 1303834 2024-09-15T05:44:48.147842 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1278291 2024-09-15T05:44:42.902885 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335003 2022-09-16T09:15:17.652760 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 404201 2024-09-15T05:44:34.922893 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 404122 2021-04-10T04:50:51 text/plain; charset=utf-8 153726 2021-04-10T04:51:49 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18921 2024-09-15T05:44:48.295809 application/rdf+xml 21154 2024-09-15T05:44:36.757872 image/jpeg 2608 2024-09-15T05:44:36.709877 image/jpeg 1012226 2024-09-15T05:44:35.898922 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia