The Quiet Half
Ellis Wren
Howard Vane is the lawyer Boston brings its ruins to, and the newest is Adrian Kessler - the best-known good man in Massachusetts. Then a check signed in Kessler's hand pays off a man who knocked down a child in a service lane, and Kessler's new will leaves everything to Calvin Voss, a tenant nobody can describe twice the same way. When Judge Merritt Ashby is beaten to death with a cane Vane once gave as a gift, the trail ends at Kessler's laboratory door. The truth arrives in two documents: a dying friend's account of a midnight errand, and a confession by a man who split himself in two and learned the quiet half was the one that killed.
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 1559 words
- 002 The Beneficiary 1374 words
- 003 Kessler at Ease 847 words
- 004 The Killing 1640 words
- 005 The Note and the Hand 1220 words
- 006 Aldiss 1192 words
- 007 The Window 479 words
- 008 The Last Night 3428 words
- 009 What Nora Aldiss Saw 1165 words
- 010 Adrian Kessler's Statement 2635 words