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I have already recorded many of the adventures of my friend Martin Hewitt, but among them there have been more of a certain few which were discovered to be related together in a very extraordinary manner; and it is to these that I am now at liberty to address myself. There may have been others—cases which gave no indication of their connection with these; some of them indeed I may have told without a suspicion of their connection with the Red Triangle; but the first in which that singular accompaniment became apparent was the matter of Samuel's diamonds. The case exhibited many interesting features, and I was very anxious to report it, with perhaps even less delay than I had thought judicious in other cases; but Hewitt restrained me.
"No, Brett," he said, "there is more to come of this. This particular case is over, it is true, but there is much behind. I've an idea that I shall see that Red Triangle again. I may, or, of course, I may not; but there is deep work going on—very deep work, and whether we see more of it or not, I must keep prepared. I can't afford to throw a single card upon the table. So, as many notes as you please, Brett, for future reference; but no publication yet—none of your journalism!"
Hewitt was right. It was not so long before we heard more of the Red Triangle, and after that more, though the true connection of some of the cases with the mysterious symbol and the meaning of the symbol itself remained for a time undiscovered. But at last Hewitt was able to unmask the hideous secret, and for ever put an end to the evil influence that gathered about the sign; and now there remains no reason why the full story should not be told....
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THE CASE OF MR. LOFTUS DEACON, by Arthur Morrison
OLD CATER'S MONEY, by Arthur Morrison
HOW DON Q. STOOD AT BAY, by K. and Hesketh Prichard
THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD, by Robert Louis Stevenson
MR. CLACKWORTHY GOES TO JAIL, by Christopher B. Booth
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THE FOREIGN OFFICE DESPATCH
THE CHICAGO HEIRESS
THE LIZARD'S SCALE
THE PASTE DIAMONDS
THE KAILYARD NOVEL
THE SUBMARINE BOAT
THE KIMBLERLEY FUGITIVE
THE SILKWORMS OF FLORENCE
THE BOX OF SPECIE
THE SILVER INGOTS
THE HOUSE OF DETENTION
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THE ESCAPE OF WILKINS
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRUNK
THE GOLDEN TOUCH
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THE JAILBIRD
IN THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
THE MAXIMILIAN DIAMOND
EXTRADITION
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Headquartered in a modest office on the Strand, Martin Hewitt, a stout and genial former law clerk turned private investigator, is every bit the deductive equal of Sherlock Holmes. A true master of disguise with a mind as sharp as a freshly stropped straight razor, Hewitt possesses a familiarity with London’s night streets and an easy rapport with members of the lower classes. In his capable hands, clues that were missed, misread, or disregarded by the local constabulary are reshaped to find the irrefutable solution to the most unsolvable of mysteries.
Narrated by Hewitt’s dearest friend, the esteemed journalist Mr. Brett, this collection recounts the great detective’s most confounding cases. From a troubling series of robberies that occurred at the same residence over the course of several months to a locked-room “suicide” that was decidedly not self-inflicted, Hewitt bravely matches wits with England’s most diabolical criminals.
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CONTENTS:
The Martin Hewitt Books
MARTIN HEWITT, INVESTIGATOR
CHRONICLES OF MARTIN HEWITT
ADVENTURES OF MARTIN HEWITT
THE RED TRIANGLE
The Novels
A CHILD OF THE JAGO
TO LONDON TOWN
CUNNING MURRELL
THE HOLE IN THE WALL
The Short Story Collections
THE SHADOWS AROUND US
TALES OF MEAN STREETS
ZIG-ZAGS AT THE ZOO
THE DORRINGTON DEED BOX
THE GREEN EYE OF GOONA
DIVERS VANITIES
GREEN GINGER
The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Non-Fiction
HOW TO WRITE A SHORT STORY
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An artist’s work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room. Gold bullion totaling £10,000 mysteriously vanishes from the ill-fated steamship Nicobar as it sinks en route to Plymouth. A clerk disappears from a large London bank along with a rather substantial amount of the company’s money. A lunatic Frenchman, discovered beaten and bloody in the street, screams in terror when offered a loaf of bread. These dark occurrences have two things in common: The obvious solutions are not the solutions, and private detective Martin Hewitt is on the case.
Not even the fabled Sherlock Holmes can best Hewitt’s talent for disguise and his ability to uncover the small, telling clues missed by others. Narrated by his good friend Mr. Brett, the investigative chronicles of Martin Hewitt are entertaining exercises in the fine art of deductive reasoning.
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Esteemed journalist Mr. Brett rightly believes that his dear friend Martin Hewitt is the most insightful investigator of crimes in all of England. Who else could have so quickly connected a partial sheet of music—wrapped around a rock and tossed through a sitting room window—with an infamous decades-old robbery? Would anyone else have taken seriously the fears of an eccentric old woman who swore thieves were after her most prized possession: a snuffbox fashioned from the actual wood of Noah’s Ark?
The Adventures of Martin Hewitt chronicles the inimitable detective’s most fascinating cases, each of them solved by his uncanny ability to see past the obvious to the real mysteries that lie beneath.
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The Lenton Croft Robberies, The Loss of Sammy Crockett, The Case of Mr. Foggatt, The Case of the Dixon Torpedo, The Quinton Jewel Affair, The Stanway Cameo Mystery & The Affair of the Tortoise.