Project Gutenberg 2025-08-09 Public domain in the USA. 300 Landon, Herman 1882 1960 Coverdale, Harry 24019417 The seventh shot : $b A detective story $aNew York City :$bChelsea House, $c1924. Tim Miller, Quentin Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The seventh shot : A detective story" by Herman Landon is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. Set in Broadway’s backstage world, it follows volatile new star Alan Mortimer, producer Max Dukane, and ingénue Sybil Merivale as their show collides with the ousted leading lady Grace Templeton and the calculating Kitty Legaye. When anonymous threats and jealousies surface, detective Jim Barrison moves from a technical consultant on fingerprints to an uneasy guardian as danger seems to gather for opening night. The opening of the novel traces a sweltering rehearsal season on the Rialto: Kitty befriends job-hunting Sybil over lunch, Mortimer (already the object of multiple entanglements) impulsively anoints her his new leading woman after Grace Templeton is fired, and Dukane cautiously agrees to test her. Rehearsals reveal Mortimer’s intoxicating charm and predatory will—he forces an onstage kiss during the “tag,” rattling Sybil and stoking Norman Crane’s jealousy—while a superstitious stage manager frets and an anonymous letter warns Mortimer of doom “on the opening night.” Barrison, brought in to coach a fingerprint scene, quietly reads the room: Grace’s smoldering fury, Kitty’s designs, Sybil’s fearful fascination, and Mortimer’s enraged response to the note; Grace later tries (and fails) to hire him to shadow Mortimer, and Tony Clay reports she has bought a revolver. On opening night, with the theater stifling and security tightened, Barrison spots Grace in a box dressed in black, watches her sit strangely calm as Mortimer makes his entrance, and senses the fuse has been lit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/seventhshotadete00cove/mode/2up 20250207151829coverdale 1924 US Reading ease score: 82.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. en New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Theater -- Fiction Actors -- Fiction PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 475071 2025-09-30T08:38:56.889964 text/html 451036 2025-08-09T22:15:55 text/html 551515 2025-09-30T08:39:05.243945 application/epub+zip 548923 2025-09-30T08:38:58.484004 application/epub+zip 406649 2025-09-30T08:38:57.640968 application/epub+zip 1165217 2025-09-30T08:39:09.698944 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1124183 2025-09-30T08:39:04.479022 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 424726 2025-09-30T08:38:55.524001 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 404832 2025-08-09T22:15:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17559 2025-09-30T08:39:09.988915 application/rdf+xml 18446 2025-09-30T08:38:57.841963 image/jpeg 2803 2025-09-30T08:38:57.740964 image/jpeg 612612 2025-09-30T08:38:56.935021 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia