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Title: Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective
Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express

Author: Frank Pinkerton

Posting Date: January 24, 2009 [EBook #5901]
Release Date: June, 2004

Language: English

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DYKE DARREL THE RAILROAD DETECTIVE

Or

THE CRIME OF THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

By FRANK PINKERTON

1886

CONTENTS

I. A STARTLING CRIME.
II. DYKE DARREL'S TRICK.
III. PROFESSOR DARLINGTON RUGGLES.
IV. SCALPED.
V. ELLISTON'S REBUFF.
VI. DYKE DARREL'S DANGER.
VII. WHAT A HANDKERCHIEF REVEALED.
VIII. A PLUNGE TO DEATH.
IX. WORDS THAT STARTLE.
X. BLACK HOLLOW.
XI. POOR SIBYL!
XII. A BURNING TRAP.
XIII. A SAD FATE.
XIV. DYKE DARREL ASTOUNDED.
XV. A BAFFLED VILLAIN.
XVI. NELL MISSING.
XVII NELL IN THE TOILS.
XVIII. BEATEN BACK.
XIX. THE DETECTIVE FOOLED.
XX. OVERMATCHED BY A GIRL.
XXI. A BOUT IN THE CELLAR.
XXII. THE EMPTY SEAT.
XXIII. DYKE DARREL ON THE TRAIL.
XXIV. A RACE FOR LIFE.
XXV. SAVED!
XXVI. THE MYSTERIOUS WART.
XXVII. THE STORY OF A WART.
XXVIII. THE REVELATIONS OF A SATCHEL.
XXIX. RETRIBUTION.

WON BY CRIME

CHAPTER I.

A STARTLING CRIME.

"The most audacious crime of my remembrance."

Dyke Darrel flung down the morning paper, damp from the press, and
began pacing the floor.

"What is it, Dyke?" questioned the detective's sister Nell, who at
that moment thrust her head into the room.

Nell was a pretty girl of twenty, with midnight hair and eyes, almost
in direct contrast with her brother, the famous detective, whose deeds
of cunning and daring were the theme of press and people the wide West
over.

"An express robbery," returned Dyke, pausing in front of Nell and
holding up the paper.

"I am sorry," uttered the girl, with a pout. "I shan't have you with
me for the