Grey Face / The Green Eyes of Bast (The Stark House Mystery Cl...

GREY FACE:Douglas Carey awakens from a dream of a dead grey face with piercing eyes only to discover that he has lost a fair amount of the evening. It’s not long before he discovers that he has lost more than time, because the Foreign Office reports he has been working are missing as well. Could his loss of time be associated with the small figurine given to him by the mysteriously alluring Madame Sabinov? Has Carey been hypnotized in some way? With the help of Sir Provost and his friend Muir Torrington, Carey begins an investigation that leads them to the enigmatic M. de Trepniak. What is the power of the strange blue globe he keeps in a secret room? And what is the meaning of the grey face?THE GREEN EYES OF BÂST:When lawyer Jack Addison is called upon to view the seemingly empty garage of the Red House, little could he know that the crate he viewed inside held the dead body of Sir Marcus. But later that evening, when the crate accidentally breaks open, the body is discovered—and on the crate is a painting of a green cat. Stranger still, Addison’s beloved Isobel is implicated in Sir Marcus’s death. Who is trying to cast blame on Isobel, and what is the meaning of the green figurine of a cat woman that is found at the scene of the crime? And more chillingly, what is the meaning of the two great eyes that Addison sees staring up at him from the garden… two glittering cat’s eyes!

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GREY FACE Douglas Carey awakens from a dream of a dead grey face with piercing eyes only to discover that he has lost a fair amount of the evening. It’s not long before he discovers that he has lost more than time, because the Foreign Office reports he has been working are missing as well. Could his loss of time be associated with the small figurine given to him by the mysteriously alluring Madame Sabinov? Has Carey been hypnotized in some way? With the help of Sir Provost and his friend Muir Torrington, Carey begins an investigation that leads them to the enigmatic M. de Trepniak. What is the power of the strange blue globe he keeps in a secret room? And what is the meaning of the grey face? THE GREEN EYES OF BÂST When lawyer Jack Addison is called upon to view the seemingly empty garage of the Red House, little could he know that the crate he viewed inside held the dead body of Sir Marcus. But later that evening, when the crate accidentally breaks open, the body is discovered—and on the crate is a painting of a green cat. Stranger still, Addison’s beloved Isobel is implicated in Sir Marcus’s death. Who is trying to cast blame on Isobel, and what is the meaning of the green figurine of a cat woman that is found at the scene of the crime? And more chillingly, what is the meaning of the two great eyes that Addison sees staring up at him from the garden… two glittering cat’s eyes!

About the Author

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known to readers as Sax Rohmer, was born in Birmingham on February 15, 1883 to a working class Irish Catholic family. He started his career writing songs and comedy sketches for Music Hall revues, selling his first story to Pearson’s Weekly in 1903. His first novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, originally serialized in 1912, introduced the world to this mysterious and elusive villain, eventually featured in twelve subsequent novels. Rohmer took painstaking care in his arcane research, with many mysteries featuring such occult investigative characters as Gaston Max, “Red” Kerry, Morris Klaw and Paul Harley. Besides also authoring several novels of supernatural horror, toward the end of his career, Rohmer enjoyed another success with a female Fu Manchu known as Sumuru. He married Rose Elizabeth Knox in 1909 and after World War II, they moved to New York, returning to London shortly before Rohmer’s death in London on June 1, 1959, of influenza.

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