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Title: The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

Author: Robert Barr

Release Date: September 25, 2006 [EBook #19369]

Language: English

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_The Triumphs of
Eugene Valmont_

By

Robert Barr

* * * * *

CONTENTS

1. _The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds_

2. _The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower_

3. _The Clue of the Silver Spoons_

4. _Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune_

5. _The Absent-Minded Coterie_

6. _The Ghost with the Club-Foot_

7. _The Liberation of Wyoming Ed_

8. _Lady Alicia's Emeralds_

APPENDIX: TWO SHERLOCK HOLMES PARODIES

1. The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs

2. The Adventure of the Second Swag

* * * * *

1. _The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds_

When I say I am called Valmont, the name will convey no impression to
the reader, one way or another. My occupation is that of private
detective in London, but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valmont
was he will likely be able to tell you, unless he is a recent recruit.
If you ask him where Valmont is now, he may not know, yet I have a
good deal to do with the Parisian police.

For a period of seven years I was chief detective to the Government of
France, and if I am unable to prove myself a great crime hunter, it is
because the record of my career is in the secret archives of Paris.

I may admit at the outset that I have no grievances to air. The French
Government considered itself justified in dismissing me, and it did
so. In this action it was quite within its right, and I should be the
last to dispute that ri