LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664612915

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       THE EXPRESSMAN

       THE DETECTIVE.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       CHAPTER XXVIII.

       CHAPTER XXIX.

       CHAPTER XXX.

PREFACE.

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      During the greater portion of a very busy life, I have been actively engaged in the profession of a Detective, and hence have been brought in contact with many men, and have been an interested participant in many exciting occurrences.

      The narration of some of the most interesting of these events, happening in connection with my professional labors, is the realization of a pleasure I have long anticipated, and is the fulfillment of promises repeatedly made to numerous friends in by gone days.

      "The Expressman and the Detective,"

      and the other works announced by my publishers, are all true stories, transcribed from the Records in my offices. If there be any incidental embellishment, it is so slight that the actors in these scenes from the drama of life would never themselves detect it; and if the incidents seem to the reader at all marvelous or improbable, I can but remind him, in the words of the old adage, that "Truth is stranger than fiction."

      ALLAN PINKERTON.

      Chicago, October, 1874.

PUBLISHERS' NOTICE.

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      The present Volume is the first of a series of Mr. Allan Pinkerton's thrilling and beautifully written

      Detective Stories,

      all true to life—founded upon incidents in the experience of the great chief of all detectives.

      At intervals the following will appear:

      "Claude Melnotte as a Detective."