item: #1 of 16 id: 10948 author: Stockton, Frank Richard title: The Stories of the Three Burglars date: None words: 33906 flesch: 82 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. keywords: aunt; burglar; business; course; david; dog; door; face; father; good; hand; head; house; man; martha; men; night; room; story; thing; time; want; way; wife cache: 10948.txt plain text: 10948.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 17762 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: The Burglar's Fate, and The Detectives date: None words: 58258 flesch: 68 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. keywords: bank; business; chapter; chicago; chief; city; crime; day; days; detective; dollars; duncan; edwards; eugene; everman; friend; geneva; good; hand; home; hotel; house; information; journey; lady; leave; manning; matter; men; money; morning; mrs; newton; night; office; pearson; place; robbery; room; silby; story; time; town; way; wife; william; young cache: 17762.txt plain text: 17762.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 20497 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: Bucholz and the Detectives date: None words: 57718 flesch: 65 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. keywords: bucholz; case; chapter; companion; crime; day; days; detective; evening; eyes; face; fact; frank; friend; german; good; hand; henry; henry schulte; home; house; information; left; life; man; manner; matter; men; mind; money; murder; nat; new; night; old; place; prisoner; schulte; sommers; state; time; train; trial; village; visit; way; william; william bucholz; york cache: 20497.txt plain text: 20497.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 22155 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: The Expressman and the Detective date: None words: 75200 flesch: 80 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. keywords: company; cox; day; express; flora; forest; friends; good; hotel; house; husband; imbert; jenkintown; josh; letter; madam; madam imbert; man; maroney; money; montgomery; morning; mrs; new; office; philadelphia; place; porter; rivers; roch; room; time; way; white; wife; york cache: 22155.txt plain text: 22155.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 28697 author: Otis, James title: Down the Slope date: None words: 72352 flesch: 85 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. keywords: bill; billings; boy; boys; brace; chance; chapter; company; day; drift; farley; find; fred; good; gus; half; help; home; joe; left; men; money; night; party; place; sam; skip; slope; store; tell; time; want; way; work; wright cache: 28697.txt plain text: 28697.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 29572 author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) title: Whispering Smith date: None words: 97151 flesch: 88 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. keywords: away; bend; bill; bucks; cache; country; creek; dancing; day; dicksie; division; door; dunning; eyes; face; george; good; half; hand; hat; head; help; horse; kennedy; lance; left; life; line; look; man; marion; mccloud; medicine; men; moment; mountains; new; railroad; ranch; rebstock; ride; riding; right; river; rode; room; run; saddle; sang; sinclair; smith; stone; story; table; tell; thing; time; trouble; valley; water; way; whispering; whispering smith; work; young cache: 29572.txt plain text: 29572.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 30636 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller date: None words: 63678 flesch: 76 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. keywords: andrews; annie; bank; captain; case; day; drysdale; fortune; george; good; gordon; green; house; left; letter; lucille; man; miss; money; morning; mrs; night; office; pattmore; potter; return; room; seaton; thayer; time; way; wife; wish cache: 30636.txt plain text: 30636.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 33230 author: Camp, Wadsworth title: The Gray Mask date: None words: 68249 flesch: 91 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. keywords: alden; alsop; black; came; chair; door; eyes; face; figure; garth; george; hall; hand; head; house; inspector; jim; left; like; look; man; mcdonald; men; moment; mrs; night; nora; open; place; randall; room; slim; taylor; thought; time; voice; way; white; window; woman cache: 33230.txt plain text: 33230.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 35686 author: Pinkerton, Allan title: Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives date: None words: 95556 flesch: 69 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. keywords: arrest; barton; bernardi; bonds; business; case; chapter; character; city; company; day; death; detectives; dollars; don; don pedro; donna; door; evening; express; farrington; gloster; good; house; ingham; judge; lesparre; levi; madame; man; mather; men; money; morning; morton; mrs; new; night; o'clock; party; pedro; people; pinkerton; place; room; sanford; sevier; time; trafton; want; way; william; young cache: 35686.txt plain text: 35686.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 45455 author: Howard, Police Captain title: Shadow, the Mysterious Detective date: None words: 37007 flesch: 86 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? keywords: cap; chapter; detective; door; eyes; face; good; hand; head; helen; house; little; man; mat; mcginnis; men; morris; night; person; place; shadow; tige; time; way; word cache: 45455.txt plain text: 45455.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 45492 author: Raymond, P. T. title: Bats in the Wall; or, The Mystery of Trinity Church-yard date: None words: 53945 flesch: 86 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. keywords: bank; boy; boys; caleb; callister; chapter; church; cutts; day; detective; door; floor; frank; frank mansfield; hand; hook; house; jerry; know; man; mansfield; moment; new; night; place; room; street; time; tisdale; wall; want; way; woman; yard cache: 45492.txt plain text: 45492.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 46306 author: McWatters, George S. title: Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives date: None words: 218750 flesch: 66 summary: 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. keywords: alvord; bank; brooks; brother; brown; business; case; character; children; city; clerk; colonel; country; course; daniels; day; days; detective; dollars; door; eyes; face; fact; family; father; fellow; friend; general; gentleman; good; great; hague; half; hand; hattie; having; heart; home; hotel; hour; house; ladies; lady; lawyer; left; leonard; letter; life; long; look; looking; lost; love; making; man; matter; mcwatters; men; mind; money; mrs; new; new york; night; officer; order; papers; partner; pay; payne; peculiar; people; perkins; place; point; police; poor; public; rest; rogers; room; roy; sir; state; story; street; things; thought; time; visit; want; way; wife; woman; work; world; years; york cache: 46306.txt plain text: 46306.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 46435 author: Manning, Emmerson Wain title: Practical Instruction for Detectives: A Complete Course in Secret Service Study date: None words: 24237 flesch: 60 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. keywords: bank; business; car; cases; check; city; criminal; detective; detective work; forger; goods; kind; man; money; office; person; place; store; street; subject; time; way; work cache: 46435.txt plain text: 46435.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 58576 author: Furlong, Thomas title: Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories date: None words: 111509 flesch: 72 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. keywords: arrest; attorney; brother; business; car; case; charge; chief; city; company; county; court; crime; day; days; dingfelter; door; engine; evening; fact; feet; following; general; good; great; hand; head; home; house; jail; john; law; left; letter; louis; man; maxwell; men; miles; missouri; money; morning; night; number; office; officers; oil; pacific; people; place; police; railroad; reason; room; sheriff; smith; state; street; texas; time; town; train; trial; watts; way; wife; work; years cache: 58576.txt plain text: 58576.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 59652 author: Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. title: Cronus of the D. F. C. date: None words: 6402 flesch: 93 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. keywords: apartment; captain; cronus; gregory; room; stella; time; walker cache: 59652.txt plain text: 59652.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 61978 author: Kuttner, Henry title: War-Gods of the Void date: None words: 13047 flesch: 93 summary: Venus, Mr. Vanning, is _not_ Earth. ] I Earth Consul, Goodenow, tossed a packet of microfilms to Vanning, and said, You're crazy. keywords: callahan; face; fever; hobbs; lysla; man; north; sanderson; ship; swamja; vanning; venus; way; zeeth cache: 61978.txt plain text: 61978.txt