Phantom Fingers (Mearson)

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Phantom Fingers (1928)
by Lyon Mearson

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Before the horror-filled eyes of a terrified audience, Augustin Arnold, the matinee idol of New York City, is strangled to death on the stage of the Grand Theater, by invisible hands, whose unseen fingers have wrapped themselves about his neck. The understudy, who takes up the murdered man's part, is throttled in the same mysterious manner and comes within an ace of losing his life.

Then the messages of the phantom murderer to Betty Sargent, the leading lady, are discovered. They are signed, "An Unknown Admirer", and they set Steve Muirhead, detective-adventurer, on the phantom trail that twists its way mysteriously through New York's theatrical underworld.

With gripping intensity, the author projects the denouement of this phantom murder mystery. The action of the tale fascinates and thrills when it sweeps onward to a powerful climax and an illuminating end.

—From the dust cover.

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Phantom Fingers

BY

Lyon Mearson
Author of “The Whisper on the Stair,”
“Footsteps in the Dark.”

New York
The Macaulay Company

Copyright, 1927, By
Lyon Mearson

First Printing, July, 1928.
Second Printing, August, 1928.

Printed in the United States of America

To all those among my friends
who think that I should have
inscribed a book to them long ago.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1966, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 57 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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