Project Gutenberg 2018-12-31 Public domain in the USA. 81 Furlong, Thomas 1844 12013872 Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories 50 Years a Detective: Thirty-five Real Detective Stories Preface -- Sidelights on the business -- The Preller murder case -- The big cotton swindle -- A remarkable case -- Tracing train wreckers -- "Moonshining" in the oil regions -- The capture of Wess Watts -- Solving a trunk mystery -- The Glencoe train robbery -- Running down the revolutionists -- A Dallas murder avenged -- The toughest of tough towns -- The Rohan Express robbery -- Arrest of Lawrence Poyneer -- Ticket forgers run down -- Conviction of John Collins -- Fred Erfert's fall from grace -- Battle with would-be bandits -- The great Pittsburg strike -- Murder of conductor Frazier -- Fight with a maniac -- Decoying a bad man -- Tragic death of Bill Casey -- Subduing a notorious bully -- A ruse that worked -- Charlie Dalton, outlaw -- Conspirators handed a lemon -- The big southwest strike -- Why I oppose rewards -- Why I am opposed to hanging -- A crooked doctor's crime -- Capture of a clever swindler -- Long hunt for a defaulter -- George Hersogg's downfall. E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) en Crime -- United States Detectives HV Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Sociology 675073 674862 2024-08-24T08:57:33.415430 2023-09-25T07:57:32.690743 text/html text/html 679633 2018-12-30T21:38:12 text/html 1472296 2018-12-30T21:41:32 text/html application/zip 1590669 2024-08-24T08:57:41.023371 application/epub+zip 1595660 2024-08-24T08:57:34.663407 application/epub+zip 322856 2024-08-24T08:57:34.016435 application/epub+zip 1775278 2024-08-24T08:57:46.249352 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1712152 2024-08-24T08:57:40.276419 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 447116 2022-09-26T15:08:02.417830 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 637022 636848 2024-08-24T08:57:32.530429 2023-09-25T07:57:31.869728 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 636970 2018-12-30T21:12:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 230413 2018-12-30T21:12:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 636979 2018-12-30T21:12:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 230420 2018-12-30T21:12:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20986 2024-08-24T08:57:46.397373 application/rdf+xml 16661 2024-08-24T08:57:34.119410 image/jpeg 2481 2024-08-24T08:57:34.070394 image/jpeg 1473518 2024-08-24T08:57:33.525451 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog