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The Pointing Man (Large Print Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Douie, Marjorie

Mystery

BiblioLife

The Pointing Man

The pointing man, a Burmese mystery

History

Nabu Press

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture.  Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years.  Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject.  From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous generations.

The Pointing Man (Primary Sources, Historical Collections)

Asia

Primary Sources, Historical Collections

<p>It was the night of the 29th of July, Thakin, and I sent him forth upon a business. Next morning he did not return. What inquiries have you made? All that may be made, Thakin. His dark eyes gleamed, and he showed his teeth like a dog. Mhtoon Pah gasped again, like a drowning man. And yet the Thakin knows the sewer city, the Chinese quarter, the streets where men laugh horribly in the dark. Houses there, Thakin, that crawl with yellow men, who are devils, and who split a man as they would split a fowl -- he broke off, and waved his hands about wildly. Hartley felt a little sick. Who saw Absalom last?</p>

The Pointing Man: A Burmese Mystery

Echo Library

Dodo Pr

"Dust lay thick along the road that led through the very heart of the native quarter of Mangadone; dust raised into a misty haze which hung in the air and actually introduced a light undernote of red into the effect. Dust, which covered the bare feet of the coolies, the velvet slippers of the Burmese, which encroached everywhere and no one regarded, for presently, just at sundown, shouting watermen, carrying large bamboo vessels with great spouts, would come running along the road, casting the splashing water on all sides, and reduce the dry powder to temporary mud."

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"It was the night of the 29th of July, Thakin, and I sent him forth upon a business. Next morning he did not return.""What inquiries have you made?""All that may be made, Thakin."His dark eyes gleamed, and he showed his teeth like a dog.Mhtoon Pah gasped again, like a drowning man. "And yet the Thakin knows the sewer city, the Chinese quarter, the streets where men laugh horribly in the dark. Houses there, Thakin, that crawl with yellow men, who are devils, and who split a man as they would split a fowl --" he broke off, and waved his hands about wildly.Hartley felt a little sick."Who saw Absalom last?"

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Alan Rodgers Books

Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd.

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