Crime Report No. 872
Crime Report No. 872 By Frank L. Packard. Lachine, Que. From the Fonds of Frank L. Packard in the Library and Archives Canada. No publication found./drf Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca December 2018. Chapter I. “I would like the detail, inspector,” The speaker, sitting with one leg crossed over the other, was a man of tremendous physique, muscular and hard, not an ounce of superfluous flesh upon him. The dark hair, slightly tinged with gray was closely cropped upon a head that even for a man of his great build, seemed at first glance, disproportionately large. The face was aggressive in its expression, the eyes, close together and very black, had a trick of narrowing into little slits as the eyelids almost closed over them in moments of preoccupation. The nose was sharply bent, and across the bridge was a deep hollow, as though a groove had been seamed out by some peculiar means. A long untrimmed moustache drooped over the mouth and...