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ALLAN PINKERTON'S
GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES.
1.—THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND DETECTIVES.
2.—STRIKERS, COMMUNISTS, AND DETECTIVES.
3.—CRIMINAL REMINISCENCES AND DETECTIVES.
4.—THE MODEL TOWN AND DETECTIVES.
5.—THE SPIRITUALISTS AND DETECTIVES.
6.—THE EXPRESSMEN AND DETECTIVES.
7.—THE SOMNAMBULIST AND DETECTIVES.
8.—CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE.
9.—THE MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND DETECTIVES.
10.—GYPSIES AND DETECTIVES.
11.—BUCHOLZ AND DETECTIVES.
12.—THE RAILROAD FORGER AND DETECTIVES.
13.—BANK ROBBERS AND DETECTIVES.
14.—THE BURGLAR'S FATE AND DETECTIVES.
15.—A DOUBLE LIFE AND DETECTIVES.
16.—PROFESSIONAL THIEVES AND DETECTIVES.
17.—THIRTY YEARS A DETECTIVE.
18.—THE SPY OF THE REBELLION."The mental characteristics of Allan Pinkerton were judgment as tofacts, knowledge of men, the ability to concentrate his faculties on onesubject, and the persistent power of will. A mysterious problem ofcrime, against which his life was devoted, presented to his thought, wassolved almost in an instant, and seemingly by his intuitions. Withhalf-closed eyes he saw the scene in which the wrong was done, readevery movement of the criminals, and reached invariably the correctconclusion as to their conduct and guilt."
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"At this instant I flung open one of the shutters, andsimultaneously I heard a cry of horror from my clerk."—Page 19.
THE
SOMNAMBULIST
AND
THE DETECTIVE.
THE MURDERER
AND
THE FORTUNE TELLER.
BY
ALLAN PINKERTON.
AUTHOR OF
"EXPRESSMAN AND DETECTIVE," "SPIRITUALISTS AND DETECTIVES,"
"PROFESSIONAL THIEVES AND DETECTIVES,"
"RAILROAD FORGER AND DETECTIVES,"
"MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND DETECTIVES," ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK:
G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers.
Copyright,
W. B. KEEN, COOKE & CO.,
1875.
Copyright, 1903, by
JOAN CHALMERS.
The Somnambulist.
PREFACE
In presenting to the public my third volume of Detective Stories, Idesire to again call attention to the fact that the stories hereincontained, as in the case of their predecessors in th