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Charles Haddon Chambers · 1891 · Scanned text
82,136 words · about 5 h 45 min to read
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.
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1. The Calumet 9 2. Major Dymple 43 3. Ruffy.... 62 4. An Underground Murder 76 5. The Private Detective 95 6. The Private Inquiry 108 7. The Duchess 131 8. Murdered ! 141 9. Caged 170
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