The mystery of the hollow needle

Number of pages: 248 Author: Maurice Leblanc Publisher: Juice Books Raymond sharpened his hearing. The noise repeated twice, clearly enough to distinguish it from those vague sounds that make up the silence of the great night. But it remained too faint to know whether it was coming from nearby or from afar – from inside the walls of the large country house, or from outside – among those mysterious cavities in the garden. He rose gently. The window was half open, so he opened it fully. The moonlight spread peacefully over the meadows and forests, among which the ruins of the old scattered monastery, the broken columns, alongside the deformed building arches, the fragments of the cloisters, and the torn supports of the walls emerged. Everything was cloaked in a gentle breeze, flowing silently through the branches of the still, leafless trees, and shaking the small buds on the shrubs.