Project Gutenberg 2004-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 68 Tracy, Louis 1863 1928 Holmes, Gordon Number Seventeen Number 17 Reading ease score: 73.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Jim Weiler, xooqi.com "Number Seventeen" by Louis Tracy is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Francis Berrold Theydon, an artist, who becomes entangled in a murder mystery after witnessing a chance encounter with a beautiful woman and her father outside a theater. Theydon’s seemingly mundane life takes a dramatic turn as he finds himself wrapped in intrigue following the discovery of a murder in his residential block, leading him to question the true identity of the mysterious visitor he heard the previous night. The opening of the novel introduces Theydon and details a series of events that unfold on a rainy night after a theater performance. As he waits for a cab, he observes a striking young woman, Evelyn, with her father but dismisses the encounter as inconsequential. However, the plot thickens when he learns that a woman named Mrs. Lester, who lived in the neighboring flat, has been murdered. Theydon, portrayed as perceptive yet impulsive, grapples with his observations of the stranger who visited Mrs. Lester, prompting tension between his thoughts and his responsibility as a witness. The opening sets a tone of suspense and curiosity, hinting at deeper connections between the characters and the impending investigation that they will all become part of. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature 440054 440055 2024-10-02T14:58:33.110381 2023-10-03T04:07:53.555835 text/html text/html 440995 2017-12-10T10:14:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 168674 2017-12-10T10:15:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 239098 2024-10-02T14:58:40.983372 application/epub+zip 246328 2024-10-02T14:58:35.293374 application/epub+zip 246328 2024-10-02T14:58:33.873366 application/epub+zip 443954 2024-10-02T14:58:45.304305 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 431732 2024-10-02T14:58:40.184363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 409635 2022-09-03T05:18:51.928177 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 423693 423677 2024-10-02T14:58:32.031390 2023-10-03T04:07:52.697794 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 423621 2017-12-10T10:14:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 165830 2017-12-10T10:15:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 423612 2017-12-10T10:14:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 165807 2017-12-10T10:15:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21196 2024-10-02T14:58:45.438302 application/rdf+xml 14356 2024-10-02T14:58:34.434383 image/jpeg 3453 2024-10-02T14:58:34.153367 image/jpeg 239376 2024-10-02T14:58:33.149392 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