Excerpt:
"Those who anticipated the discovery of a crime, were unhappily not deceived. The commissary was convinced of this as soon as he crossed the threshold. Everything in the first room pointed with a sad eloquence to the recent presence of a malefactor. The furniture was knocked about, and a chest of drawers and two large trunks had been forced and broken open."
Language: English
Published in: 1866
Word count: 123,647 words (≈ about 8 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org
Copyright: Public Domain
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