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Title: An Artist in Crime

Author: Rodrigues Ottolengui

Release Date: April 7, 2010 [EBook #31915]

Language: English

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AN ARTIST IN CRIME

BY RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS
1903

COPYRIGHT, 1892
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_
BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New Rochelle, N. Y.

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By RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI

+An Artist in Crime.+ 16 oct., $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

+A Conflict of Evidence.+ 16 oct., $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

+A Modern Wizard.+ 16 oct., $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

+The Crime of the Century.+ 16 oct., $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

+Final Proof, or, the Value of Evidence.+ 16 oct., $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT
A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION 1

II. A DARING AND SUCCESSFUL TRAIN ROBBERY 16

III. MR. BARNES DISCOVERS AN ARTISTIC
MURDER 30

IV. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND 46

V. THE SEVENTH BUTTON 56

VI. MR. BARNES'S TRAP 75

VII. MR. RANDOLPH HAS A FIGHT WITH HIS
CONSCIENCE 95

VIII. LUCETTE 115

IX. THE DIARY OF A DETECTIVE 129

X. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 138

XI. MR. BARNES RECEIVES SEVERAL LETTERS 154

XII. THE HISTORY OF THE RUBY 169

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