Status Updates From One by One They Disappeared

“ Collier did not know what to think. He was getting very discouraged. There was nothing in all this of which he could take hold. He began to feel like the blind man in some sinister game of blind man’s buff, surrounded by players who eluded his every effort to seize them.”

“We’re hunting—and we’re being hunted by some one who’s picking off the survivors of the Coptic one by one on the principle that the more the merrier but the fewer the better fare. I don’t know what you ought to guard against. There is a devilish ingenuity about this…We must face the facts. We’re in danger, but we must not let that get on our nerves. We must take reasonable precautions—and carry on.”

“ “… The Yard does not know any of you from Adam—yet. I’m interested, Mr. Freyne, unofficially, as I told you before. The two instincts that are most apt to cause trouble are the amatory and the predatory. I don’t know if there’s a woman in this case—but the dollars are there all right.””

Well gee whiz - I was wrong before. I have read something by this author already: The Art School Murders. I know it didn’t dazzle me. Meanwhile, I like the premise of this one - instantly sinister.

My first Moray foray. Hyuk-hyuk-hyuk! No - sorry about that.