Clean Hands
Ellis Wren
Warren Pike draws wills in Boston, and the one he holds for the pharmacologist Adrian Hale leaves everything to a young man nobody has met. Then a story reaches him: a small man knocking a girl down on a service lane and paying for it with a check in Hale's own hand. The door he disappears through belongs to Hale's house, and it leads Pike to a locked laboratory in Cambridge, to a congressman beaten to death with the cane Pike gave Hale, and to a physician who has seen something he will not describe. When the door opens, Hale is gone and two sealed statements explain how a careful man learns to put his worst half somewhere else.
Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Published by TalesReborn.
Table of Contents
- 001 The Door on the Service Lane 3107 words
- 002 The Beneficiary 3224 words
- 003 Dr. Hale Is Quite at Ease 2970 words
- 004 The Murder on Mount Vernon Street 3234 words
- 005 The Hand in the Letter 3080 words
- 006 Dr. Acker's Sealed Envelope 3004 words
- 007 The Incident at the Window 2735 words
- 008 The Last Night 3154 words
- 009 Dr. Acker's Account 3315 words
- 010 Adrian Hale's Statement 4888 words