The Sheridan Road Mystery Author:Paul Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI INVESTIGATION" LEAVING the Detective Bureau, Morgan stopped in a restaurant on Randolph Street for a quick lunch. From there he walked over to S... more »tate Street and took the motor bus for the scene of the singular event which it was now his duty to investigate. A half-hour later he dropped off the bus at Lawrence Avenue and Sheridan Road. A few steps brought him to the Hillcrest apartments, where he found Tierney waiting on the front steps for him. "The Chief telephoned me that you would probably be here about this time," said Tierney, after acknowledging Morgan's greeting. "I was on the job last night, and did a little investigating this morning, so the Chief thought you might want to talk things over with me." Morgan nodded. '' All right, let's go up. Can we get into the flat?" ''Sure," answered Tierney. "We put a temporary padlock on this morning, and I have the key." Without further words the two men climbed the stairs to the apartment on the third floor. Tierney unlocked the padlock and they went in. Inside the entrance hall of the apartment, Tierney turned to Morgan. .]"! suppose the Chief has put the case entirely in your hands, so it's up to you what you want to do first." "We had better go into the front room here," answered Morgan, "and let me get a line on things. About all I know so far is that somebody thinks a murder has been committed." "You can't make much out of things as they are, that's a fact," assented Tierney, as they moved into the front room. He dropped into an easy, chair close at hand, and pushed his cap back on his head, while Morgan went to one of the front windows and ran the shade to the top. Seating himself where he could get the full benefit of the light from the window, he drew out the typewritten report and read it ov...« less