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The Chain
Hamilton Craigie · 1923
A hard-headed New York man escapes a planted abduction and races back to his private office, only to find an impossible locked-room theft waiting for him. In this Weird Tales miniature, crime, fear and chance tighten around one practical mind until every small clue matters.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 20 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
West Side Chain of Circumstance
Cellar CorridorThe noose, dripping dark and guard's bulb make captivity physical.
Marston's Criminal Chain
Hamilton Craigie's Publishing Desk
The Characters of The Chain
The Chain Cast in the Private Office
Trouble in the TaxiQuarrier entered the taxi with an uneasy sense of crisis.
The Guard in the CorridorThe shape was invisible; its signs were not.
This edition
- Title
- The Chain
- Author
- Hamilton Craigie
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 37 original artworks · 20 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 6 · about 7,482 words
- Reading time
- 30 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #68957
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