
The house is full of danger and murder, but how will they every know who could commit such horrible crimes, when so many people are passing by all the time?The Turnpike House was originally serialized in the Cheshire Observer from January 18 to April 26, 1902.

Reproduction of the original: The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume

Reproduction of the original: The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume






It stood where four roads met--a square building of two storeys, with white-washed walls and a high slate roof. The fence, and the once trim garden, had vanished with the turnpike gate; and a jungle of gooseberry bushes, interspersed with brambles, shut off the house from the...

It stood where four roads met--a square building of two storeys, with white-washed walls and a high slate roof. The fence, and the once trim garden, had vanished with the turnpike gate; and a jungle of gooseberry bushes, interspersed with brambles, shut off the house from the...

