Shadowed by a detective

About this eBook

Author

Pont-Jest, René de, 1830-1904

Title

Shadowed by a detective : or, The woman in wax

Original Publication

New York: Street & Smith, 1899.

Credits

Demian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Private investigators -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78812

Release Date

June 3, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SHADOWED by a DETECTIVE
2. 2.To the Reader — SHADOWED BY A DETECTIVE
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.Shadowed by a Detective; or, THE WOMAN IN WAX.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. THE KIDNAPPING.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. WHAT BECAME OF THE HEROINE.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. ROBERTSON BROTHERS & CO.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. HONORABLE WILLIE SAUNDERS BECOMES THOROUGHLY MAD.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. SHAKESPEARE’S TAVERN.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. THE MORGUE AT BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. SAUNDERS ALMOST LOSES HIS MIND, WHILE CAPTAIN YOUNG WHOLLY LOSES HIS TIME.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. TAKING A CAST OF THE DEAD.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. WHAT THE HONORABLE CORONER DAVIS THOUGHT, AND WHAT ROBERTSON, JR., WAS CONVINCED OF.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. A MOHICK TELLS OF A VISIT BIG KELLY RECEIVES WHICH HE LITTLE EXPECTED, AND HOW WILLIAM DOW TRANSFORMS A VISITOR INTO A PRISONER.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. A CRIMINAL COURT IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. HOW THE WORTHY MR. MIDLER EXHORTED HIS PENITENTS TO DIE LIKE CHRISTIANS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH JAMES GOBSON MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPES THE GALLOWS, AND THE HONORABLE CORONER DAVIS’ REMORSE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH WILLIE SAUNDERS PASSES FROM DESPAIR TO AMAZEMENT, AND FROM AMAZEMENT TO ANGER.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. WILLIAM DOW’S PROMISE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. WILLIAM DOW’S REVENGE—SEEKING THE UNKNOWN.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. A SOUVENIR OF LOVE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. TWO VILLAS AT JAMAICA PLAIN.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. WHAT HAPPENED ON LEAVING BARKER’S.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. A WIFE’S LOVE AND A MAID’S LOVE.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. THE MURDERER OF A DEAD WOMAN.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. KITTY BELL’S STORY.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. WHARF 32.
29. 29.A specially good list of DETECTIVE STORIES Are those by Barclay North In Street & Smith’s Magnet Library at the Right Price, 10c.
30. 30.A Well-dressed Face
31. 31.A. Conan Doyle — The White Company — The Firm of Girdlestone — A Study in Scarlet — Beyond the City — At the Sign of the Four
32. 32.A PARTIAL LIST ... OF ... STREET & SMITH’S BOOKS Including those published at 10 CENTS in the
33. 33.Transcriber’s Notes:

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