Wanted! : a detective's strange adventures / by Dick Donovan.

Author
Donovan, Dick, 1843-1934 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Chatto & Windus, 1892.
Description
[2] leaves, 316, [2], 32 p. ; 18 cm.

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Special Collections - Rare Books PR5101.M363 W36 1892 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Medium/​Support
    8vo. rdabf
    Notes
    • Cased yellowback (white).
    • The [2] p. tipped in after text is solicited advertising; separate gathering of 32 p. is publisher's advertising dated April 1892.
    • Princeton copy is gift of Anthony Newnham.
    Contents
    • The story of some remarkable frauds
    • A dying confession
    • A railway mystery
    • Springthorpe's last flutter
    • Mrs. O'Flaggerty's jools
    • Old Hurricane, the Glasgow forger
    • A Glasgow crime
    • Out of his own mouth
    • A strange conspiracy
    • Dumpy Dick, the Glasgow coiner
    • The tinker's doom
    • The shadow on the blind
    • The hangman's prey
    • The last shot
    • A dark night's work
    • Old Jinks's money
    • The Prince of Smashers
    • The thread of silk
    • How the bank was saved
    • The Barnfield murder case
    • The story of a Christmas fairy
    • Taken in the act.
    Other title(s)
    Detective's strange adventures
    OCLC
    11179412
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