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id: 59652
author: Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.
title: Cronus of the D. F. C.
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words: 6402
sentence: 592
flesch: 93
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summary:
  I put in a hectic day of trudging through apartment buildings and squabbling with superintendents, but we found it the next morning, in a stubby little seven-story building on South Central. It was one of those apartment buildings that went up way back in 1990, when the city decided it couldn't afford the luxury of open spaces and opened part of old Central Park to apartment buildings.


id: 61978
author: Kuttner, Henry
title: War-Gods of the Void
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words: 13047
sentence: 1511
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Venus, Mr. Vanning, is _not_ Earth. ] I Earth Consul, Goodenow, tossed a packet of microfilms to Vanning, and said, You're crazy.


id: 46435
author: Manning, Emmerson Wain
title: Practical Instruction for Detectives: A Complete Course in Secret Service Study
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words: 24237
sentence: 835
flesch: 60
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summary:
  It is essential that store detectives dress well, but not conspicuously, and while in the store, if the detective be a man, he should wear his hat and coat at all times. The valuable services that such detectives can render their employers will readily be appreciated.


id: 10948
author: Stockton, Frank Richard
title: The Stories of the Three Burglars
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words: 33906
sentence: 1533
flesch: 82
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summary:
  At one time there was a mounted patrol of young men, which, however, was soon broken up by their mothers. And I can tell you what it is, young man, I can appear ag'in you for doing poor work.


id: 45455
author: Howard, Police Captain
title: Shadow, the Mysterious Detective
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words: 37007
sentence: 2406
flesch: 86
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summary:
  It laid just where I had last seen Shadow standing, in the full glare of the light from the bull's-eye lantern. But was Shadow man or woman?


id: 45492
author: Raymond, P. T.
title: Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard
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words: 53945
sentence: 3230
flesch: 86
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summary:
  If that is your mode of reasoning it ought to be the ghost of old man Mansfield, not of your wife, that should appear to you here. A year ago such was the case, Frank Mansfield.


id: 20497
author: Pinkerton, Allan
title: Bucholz and the Detectives
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words: 57718
sentence: 2123
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Such was William Bucholz, the servant of Henry Schulte. Between master and man there appeared to exist a peculiar relation, partaking, at times, more of the nature of a protector than the servant, and in their frequent walks William Bucholz would invariably be found striding on in advance, while his aged, but seemingly robust, employer would follow silently and thoughtfully at a distance of a few yards.


id: 17762
author: Pinkerton, Allan
title: The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives
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words: 58258
sentence: 2275
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Young men of the city, dressed well and apparently respectable, yet all yielding to their passion for strong drink and the charms of lewdness and indecency. When he returned from college and established his business in his native town, he became the leader of a set of fast young men, and his office was the nightly resort of his associates, where they played and gambled frequently, until the morning hours drove them to their homes.


id: 30636
author: Pinkerton, Allan
title: The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller
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words: 63678
sentence: 2888
flesch: 76
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summary:
  there is Mrs. Drysdale, said Mrs. Townsend. After some further conversation, the three ladies resumed their homeward walk, leaving Mrs. Drysdale still waiting for her husband.


id: 28697
author: Otis, James
title: Down the Slope
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words: 72352
sentence: 3653
flesch: 85
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summary:
  When Fred left Sam to defend the breach in the wall he fully realized the necessity of giving the alarm quickly, and did not stop to light his lamp until after scrambling over the barrier of coal. Looking around quickly Fred saw Sam Thorpe, who had just come up the slope with Bill Thomas.


id: 33230
author: Camp, Wadsworth
title: The Gray Mask
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words: 68249
sentence: 6103
flesch: 91
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summary:
  At last Garth managed to twist the small wrist so that practically he controlled the fellow's movements. If you're Mr. Garth from New York, step in.


id: 22155
author: Pinkerton, Allan
title: The Expressman and the Detective
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words: 75200
sentence: 3837
flesch: 80
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summary:
  In a second, Mrs. Maroney grasped a pitcher and smashed it over Josh.'s skull. As far as they could find out, Mrs. Maroney was a widow, with one daughter, Flora Irvin, who was about seven or eight years old.


id: 35686
author: Pinkerton, Allan
title: Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives
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words: 95556
sentence: 3592
flesch: 69
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summary:
  The hunt went on for several days with no results whatever, while at the same time scouts patroled the highways, and other men kept watch upon the ferries and fords for many miles around. His acquaintance extended through all classes, from the lowest to the highest, and few men were more generally popular.


id: 29572
author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
title: Whispering Smith
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words: 97151
sentence: 6274
flesch: 88
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summary:
  In handling a wreck Sinclair was a marvel among mountain men. Then the master of mountain men, grizzled and brown, turned his eyes again to the bed.


id: 58576
author: Furlong, Thomas
title: Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories
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words: 111509
sentence: 4324
flesch: 72
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summary:
  We then had a party of probably twenty-five or thirty railroad men, and other men who lived near the hospital, file into the room and form a semicircle around Powers' cot. Other men represented machinists, while others were painters, car repairers and helpers.


id: 46306
author: McWatters, George S.
title: Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives
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sentence: 7101
flesch: 66
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  Stage-drivers in the country, with their two-horse teams, have a peculiar pride in out-driving the one-horse vehicles which they may come upon on the road, and our ordinarily slow old driver became quite a Jehu that morning, and drove past two or three teams which we overtook on the way, one of them being that which bore the beautiful widow and her no less beautiful child, and we arrived in Litchfield before them, alighting at the Mansion House, the chief hotel of that centre of country aristocracy--a centre once of the best talent in the land, when Calhoun, and many other great men of the nation, were students there, under such other great men as Judges Reeve and Gould, of the once famous Law School. But they little understood how much the quiet, saving old man was worth.


