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Williams, John Babbington.
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Private investigators -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Williams, John Babbington.
Private investigators -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Leaves
from the
note-book
of a
New
York
detective
: the
private
record
of
J
.B. / John Babbington Williams.
by
Williams, John Babbington.
Westholme, c2008.
Call #:
FICTION WIL
Subjects
Private
investigators --
New
York
(State) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781594160806 (trade pbk.)
1594160805 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Private
record
of
J
.B.
Description:
xx, 339 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"First published in 1865 by Dick & Fitzgerald"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
The silver pin -- The mysterious advertisement -- The club-foot -- The accusing
leaves
-- The struggle for life -- The Bowie-knife sheath -- The night of peril -- Stabbed in the back -- The masked robbers -- The lottery ticket -- The coiners -- The defrauded heir -- The shadow of a hand -- An adventure with Italian brigands -- A Satanic compact -- Mr. Sterling's confession -- The knotted handkerchief -- The phantom face -- The broken cent -- An adventure at an inn -- My first brief -- The Walker Street tragedy -- Buried alive -- The mystery of Darewood Hall -- The artist's story -- A churchyard adventure -- A terrible night in Baltimore -- Magnetic influence -- A story of a pack of cards.
Summary:
"Twenty years before the Sherlock Holmes mysteries were written, a fictional
New
York
private
investigator was celebrated for his ability to solve crimes based on the principles of observation and deductive reasoning that later became Holmes' hallmark. Originally published in 1864 and never before reprinted,
Leaves
from the
Note-Book
of a
New
York
Detective
features twenty-nine cases of James Brampton, the first American
detective
hero to appear in fiction. The book opens with a chance meeting between a medical doctor, John Babbington Williams (the actual author of the stories), and
detective
James Brampton. They become acquaintances, and after Brampton has retired after twenty years of service, he sends his case notebooks to Dr. Williams to be edited and published. The result is a stunning collection of intriguing mysteries, including "The Defrauded Heir," "The Phantom Face," "A Satanic Compact," and "The Walker Street Tragedy." In case after case, using his power of observation,
detective
Brampton is able prove the innocence of the wrongly accused, as when he finds a small vest button overlooked by others that leads to the true killer's identity. This first modern edition of this important work now takes its place once more in the development of mystery writing between Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, the casebook of the original American
detective
hero."--Back cover.
Genre:
Short stories.
Historical mystery fiction.
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Central Library
Adult Mystery Fiction
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