The Copper House
by Julius Regis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Regis, Julius, 1889-1925
- Title
- The Copper House : A detective story
- Original Publication
- New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
- Credits
- Tim Miller, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
- Subject
- Wallion, Maurice (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 76903
- Release Date
- September 20, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE COPPER HOUSE — CONTENTS
- 2.Part I—The Whirlpool
- 3.PROLOGUE
- 4.CHAPTER I — Baron Frederick Fayerling waits in vain for the most important document in Europe
- 5.CHAPTER II — A young man arrives from California, and hears some unexpected news
- 6.CHAPTER III — Wallion meets B.22, and certain remarkable episodes in a great man's career are described, with the desired effect
- 7.CHAPTER IV — Leonard Grath acts on his own responsibility, and meets with a girl who runs away from him
- 8.CHAPTER V — In which it is obvious that the owner is a guest in his own house
- 9.CHAPTER VI — The Problem-hunter
- 10.CHAPTER VII — The slayers
- 11.Part II—The Twentieth of July
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — Lona Ivanovna asks her first question
- 13.CHAPTER IX — Unrest in both camps: an outpost skirmish and a warning
- 14.CHAPTER X — The situation becomes acute
- 15.CHAPTER XI — Maurice Wallion looks about him a bit and makes a new acquaintance
- 16.CHAPTER XII — In which we catch a glimpse of the shadow of Napoleon the Great
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — Lona Ivanovna asks a second question and gets an unexpected reply
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — The story of the Bernin family
- 19.Part III—Gabriel Ortiz
- 20.CHAPTER XV — The storm bursts
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — Gabriel Ortiz musters his forces and counts his prisoners
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — Leo and Sonia determine to steal a motor-car but fall into an unexpected trap
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — Tarraschin's memorandum changes owners
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — Wallion speaks out and Rastakov is balked of his prey
- 25.CHAPTER XX — In which Wallion shows that a great deal can be done in ten minutes
- 26.CHAPTER XXI — The end of a glorious dream — NEW FICTION
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