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Eighty dollars to Stamford pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
In the daily life of a New York cabdriver
almost anything is possible, but what hap-
pened to David Marks was a horror story
that could only have been devised by a mas-
ter villain, one who combined brilliance
with desperation.
David Marks, twenty-eight, the bereaved
father of two young boys, taught English by
day in a junior high school. At night he
moonlighted by driving a cab through the
streets of New York City, still filled with
grief over the death a few months earlier of
his young wife.
The story began with an act of chivalry, or
so he regarded it. On a moonlight night in
spring he is hailed by a beautiful girl who
asks him to take her to Stamford, Connecti-
cut. If he would get her there by eight o clock
and keep the trip a secret, she would pay him
eighty dollars. Intrigued, David consents
and carefully omits the entry from his trip
log. He went that night, again a few nights
later, and finally a fateful third time.
The destination was a large white Co-
lonial house set back from the road in an
exclusive small settlement near Stamford.
The house was always dark and its grounds
deserted. Each time he was asked to park out
on the road and stay with the cab while the girl disappeared inside for exactly one hour.
She volunteered nothing about the nature of
her mission, and when he asked, she was eva-
sive and begged him again each time to keep
the trip a secret. When he drove her back to
the city, she would make him drop her at
some street corner and disappear just as mys-
teriously as she had originally appeared.
On the third trip to Stamford, she did not
come out after the specified hour had passed,
and David felt impelled to look for her. He
went into the silent house, and began to
search. He did not find the girl, instead
he discovered a dead man, murdered, shot
through the head. Most horrible of all, he
recognized the corpse and realized that he
himself would be the major suspect. He has
a motive to murder the man who had been
the hit-and-run killer of his wife. David
has been framed, and now he must find the
killer. Could it have been the girl--the beau-
tiful, mysterious girl? Now he knows he
must find her.
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Eighty dollars to Stamford pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024