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Title: Peter Ruff and the Double Four

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Posting Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #1976]
Release Date: November, 1999

Language: English

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PETER RUFF AND THE DOUBLE FOUR

By E. Phillips Oppenheim

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

CHAPTER

I INTRODUCING MR. PETER RUFF

II A NEW CAREER

III VINCENT CAWDOR, COMMISSION AGENT

IV THE INDISCRETION OF LETTY SHAW

V DELILAH FROM STREATHAM

VI THE LITTLE LADY FROM SERVIA

VII THE DEMAND OF THE DOUBLE-FOUR

VIII MRS. BOGNOR'S STAR BOARDER

IX THE PERFIDY OF MISS BROWN

X WONDERFUL JOHN DORY

BOOK TWO

I RECALLED BY THE DOUBLE-FOUR

II PRINCE ALBERT'S CARD DEBTS

III THE AMBASSADOR'S WIFE

IV THE MAN FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT

V THE FIRST SHOT

VI THE SEVEN SUPPERS OF ANDREA KORUST

VII MAJOR KOSUTH'S MISSION

VIII THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

IX THE GHOSTS OF HAVANA HARBOR

X THE AFFAIR OF AN ALIEN SOCIETY

XI THE THIRTEENTH ENCOUNTER

BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING MR. PETER RUFF

There was nothing about the supper party on that particular Sunday
evening in November at Daisy Villa, Green Street, Streatham, which
seemed to indicate in any way that one of the most interesting careers
connected with the world history of crime was to owe its very existence
to the disaster which befell that little gathering. The villa was the
residence and also--to his credit--the unmortgaged property of Mr. David
Barnes, a struggling but fairly prosperous coal merchant of excellent
character, some means, and Methodist proclivities. His habit of sitting
without his coat when carving, although deprecated by his wife and
daughter on account of the genteel aspirations of