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When I reached his floor, he disappeared into his room. I called him out several times, but as usual, he did not answer.
“Did you hear any dragging noise that time?” Jack asked.
“No, it was around 12 noon. the dragging sound only came during late night and very early morning.”
“And you mean only when it is dark.”
“Yes, yes.” the elderly man replied narrowing his eyes.

A news article wrote about an accident in the Guljohar apartment. ‘a young girl, Ritu, fell off the building under suspicious circumstances. Some said it was a suicide attempt. Local residents say that girl was ditched by the fiancee, Raj. The girl jumped from the building, however, she fell on a tree that saved her life.’

The book is a suspense thriller and it is written in simple language. Language and the pace of the book do not become any hindrance in reading a mystery plot. Jack is the officer who will unravel the mystery behind the unfortunate event and there is a number of characters to bring forth the revelation. The elements of suspense are wisely maintained by the author. Though I found the chapter structure a little coarse, the simple writing and non-complexed characters made me sail through it comfortably.

For those who like suspense and a quick-paced, easy read, this book can better serve those readers. The anticipation and twist factors are fine and make the book, an interesting reading experience.

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Oh my god!
Those two eyes of that so-called mad man, piercing inside, from that door slit, in pitch dark, were more vulturous for me than those vulture eyes of the old man! Madness, retribution, self-guilt, anger, frustration, what was this? Was he really off his nuts? It was certainly not madness, I am sure! How faint was that ticking of watch enveloped in cotton?
How loud was that heartbeat?
But why did that heart not stop beating?
Was this mad man sentenced to the gibbet??
Did Mr. Poe write only such stuff?

This was my original reaction when I read this short story. So many questions! No answer! But the style and modus operandi of the author prevailed. The Tell-Tale Heart is one of the best-known stories of Edgar Allan Poe. It was published in 1843 in the Pioneer Magzine. A man has a distaste for an old man’s eyes and he has no other issue, and yet he murders him. Though he tells the reader at the beginning that you don’t call him mad. He is haunted by the eyes of an old man. He says they are the eyes of a vulture.

This was a tale of psychological gothic horror, Poe is a master in that. First, the tortured mind of the narrator commits the crime and manages his safe escape, with such precision. Then his guilty mind afflicts his burdened soul a thousand times more. He hears the heartbeat of the old man inside him and nobody hears that, no neighbors, no policemen. And that sound is so loud and so painful that he surrenders in the end.

“It was a low, dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath and yet the officers- heard it not.”
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The execution of this horror and gothic tale is very much poetic, and the brilliance of the penmanship of the author was right away identified by a new reader. An amazingly written tale of horror and guilt- conscience.