Gray Dusk w/ Nook Direct Link Technology (A Classic Detective story)

The message had completely robbed David Carroll of his poise. In all his years of successful crime investigation he had never experienced such a sense of personal horror as gripped him when the import of the telegram impressed itself on his mind. He had hitherto been secretly rather proud of his ability to view everything from an impersonal and judicial angle. Yet here, in a second, that boast was negatived.