The City of the Dead 5 (The Skeleton Walks In)

Adventures by Morse. Cartony Morse presents The City of the Dead, featuring Captain Friday. If you like high adventure, come with me. If you like the stealth of intrigue, come with me. If you like blood and thunder, come with me.

Eight o'clock on the third night in The City of the Dead. In the afternoon of the second day in the Old Abandoned Cemetery, Captain Friday had locked Jimmy Parker and Phyllis Carroll together and had taken his father, the mayor and old Dr. Tuner, to Lammy Thinks cabin on the edge of the cemetery. They had found three bodies in the cellar. One was the strangled

body found in old Ernie Morton's grave. The second was the body of the man whom the cloth would have had killed at the back of the mayor's cottage. The third was Lammy Thinks. According to Captain Friday, he'd been scared to death.

That's right. And while we were in the cellar examining the bodies, the cabin mysteriously burst into flames and we barely escaped with our lives. The bodies were completely consumed. After this experience, the old mayor, my father, complained of being tired and returned to his cottage inside the gates of the city of the dead.

Dr. Tuner and I went down to the deserted ruins of a church to look for the Phantom Church In the musty rectory where the bell-ringer had hanged himself ten years before, we found old cloth-foot amusing himself with a human skeleton.

But the queer creature with flowing beard and flowing robes got away from us. Returning to the caretaker's cottage, we found my dad upset, and Phyllis carrel with a stab wound in our back just under the shoulder blade.