title: Running In The Dark: by the author of the Terrell Newman murder mysteries
author: Bernard Taylor
description: The author has worked extensively as a writer and editor. From the late 80s he wrote seven stage musicals which have been performed across the world (see www.bernardjtaylor.com). In the 1990s, he began developing the Terrell Newman murder mysteries, twelve of which were completed at the time of finishing this novel.
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  # DAGGER DOOM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### By ANTHONY FIELD
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
      
  
  EText from pulpgen.com
  
  
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  Thrilling Detective
  
  
  _, October 1933
  
  
  
  
  
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  With a Knife at His Throat, Old Silas Mercer Had to Agree to Give Up
  
  
  His Precious Formula—and Then .
  
  
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  Author of “Dealing Death,”
  
  
    
  “Murder at Ballston Spa,” etc.
  
  
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  OLD SILAS MERCER'S crude log cabin sat, dim, dark and foreboding, in
  
  
  a small clearing at the edge of the woods six miles from Ladville.
  
  
  The sole means of approach was a narrow, winding mountain trail which
  
  
  could only be traveled afoot.
  
  
  It was too narrow and steep even for horses.
  
  
  Old Silas was a character. No one in Ladville knew much about him.
  
  
  Old, halting, reticent, with a queer, faraway look in his deep-set
  
  
  eyes, he talked very little with anyone. And then never about himself.
  
  
  All the townspeople knew that he lived alone in 