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id: 38981
author: Futrelle, Jacques
title: The Chase of the Golden Plate
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words: 33402
sentence: 2521
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Well, for some reason I don't know, Dollie's father objects to Mr. Herbert's attentions to her--as a matter of fact, Mr. Meredith has absolutely prohibited them--but she's a young, headstrong girl, and I fear that, although she had outwardly yielded to her father's wishes, she had clandestinely kept up a correspondence with Mr. Herbert. A conversation Mr. Hatch had with Mr. Herbert immediately after Mr. Herbert saw Miss Meredith practically confirms it.


id: 33922
author: Moffett, Cleveland
title: True Detective Stories from the Archives of the Pinkertons
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words: 36760
sentence: 1292
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Pinkerton men were taken to Susquehanna and given employment in various positions for the railroad and express companies, their duty being to make friends and hear gossip, and, if possible, in an unguarded moment, at some saloon or boarding-house, or perhaps at the chatty noon hour in the works, secure some important secret. A telegram from Pinkerton's former employee, now chief of the secret police in Honduras, informed him that Crawford had been seen in San Pedro, Spanish Honduras, on the previous Saturday, and was being closely pursued by Spanish soldiers accompanied by Pinkerton men.


id: 16051
author: MacGrath, Harold
title: The Voice in the Fog
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words: 37555
sentence: 3168
flesch: 90
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summary:
  In the middle of the banquet, as it were, like a certain Assyrian king in Babylon, Thomas saw the Chaldaic characters on the wall: wherever he looked, written in fire--Thou fool! CHAPTER XIII Two mornings later the newspapers announced the important facts that Miss Kitty Killigrew had gone to Bar Harbor for the week, and that the famous uncut emeralds of the Maharajah of Something-or-other-apur had been stolen; nothing co-relative in the departure of Kitty and the green stones, coincidence only. [Frontispiece: Kitty Killigrew] TO CAV.


id: 21824
author: Green, Anna Katharine
title: The Old Stone House and Other Stories
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words: 39831
sentence: 1777
flesch: 81
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summary:
  He says he will not go away again till it is completed, and has been riding all the morning in every direction, engaging new men to aid the dilatory workmen already employed. For it was the twigs of a tree which had seized me, and for a long limb such as this to have grown into a place intended for the abode of man, necessitated a lapse of time and a depth of solitude oppressive to think of.


id: 18515
author: Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
title: Police!!!
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words: 48606
sentence: 3097
flesch: 81
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summary:
  It's Professor Kemper, I announced presently. When Professor Kemper landed on the coral he shot a curious look at Grue, and then came striding across the reef to me.


id: 51956
author: Post, Melville Davisson
title: The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason
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words: 51891
sentence: 2728
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Lord Coke, in the seventeenth century, declared that the law was not the natural reason of man, and that men could not, out of their common reason, make such laws as the laws of England were. THE teller of strange tales is not the least among benefactors of men.


id: 3784
author: Thorne, Paul
title: The Sheridan Road Mystery
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words: 54558
sentence: 3452
flesch: 84
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summary:
  As he sat intent on this problem, he was startled to heap the bell boy say, Here's the gentleman, sir, and looking up, Marsh saw Morgan standing in front of him. Do you know Mr. Marsh downstairs? he inquired, suddenly, his eyes keeping a keen watch on her face.


id: 26396
author: Hay, James
title: "No Clue!": A Mystery Story
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words: 57824
sentence: 4164
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Waiting for Webster to continue, he was addressed by the shivering Mr. Sloane: Mr. Hast--Mr. Hastings, take charge of--of things. He's a very sick man, Mr. Hastings.


id: 35991
author: Masters, Edgar Lee
title: Domesday Book
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words: 87500
sentence: 4055
flesch: 84
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summary:
  God, Thou, who has taken Elenor Murray home, After great service in the war, O grant Thy servant yet to kneel before the soul Of Elenor Murray. But only David Borrow Knew Elenor was cousin to this boy.


id: 5087
author: Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
title: The Treasure-Train
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words: 88308
sentence: 5881
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Please allow Doctor Kennedy to make a psychanalysis of my wife's mental condition. Has Mr. Kennedy found out anything yet?


id: 38131
author: Taft, William Nelson
title: On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents
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words: 106075
sentence: 5246
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Secret Service men find pleasure in stating what they are going to do some day--but the quality of implicit obedience has been drilled into them too thoroughly for them to forget it, which is possibly the reason why they take such a sheer and genuine delight in going ahead when the restrictions are finally lifted. Indeed, there were many men in the Service who doubted the existence of such a person, and of these Carroll was one.


id: 5054
author: Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
title: The Dream Doctor
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words: 96548
sentence: 5880
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Find Kennedy, he called back almost brusquely. A note for Mr. Kennedy, announced a man in a police uniform, with a blue anchor edged with white on his coat sleeve.


id: 31578
author: Green, Anna Katharine
title: Room Number 3, and Other Detective Stories
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words: 105371
sentence: 5639
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Young men sometimes have reasons for their susceptibilities which the old forget. Too late! growled old man Luke from between the locks of his long beard.


id: 32985
author: Ottolengui, Rodrigues
title: A Modern Wizard
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words: 108090
sentence: 6391
flesch: 79
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summary:
  Should we wish to communicate with you, where may we be able to find you, Doctor? Doctor Medjora appeared not to have heard the question. Mr. Bliss spoke a word to Doctor Medjora, and then holding a few slips of paper, upon which were notes, mainly suggestions which had been written by the prisoner himself, and passed to his counsel unperceived by the majority of those present, he faced the witness, whose eyes at once sought the floor.


