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Beadle's Dime Library No. 831

1894 · Free to read

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About this issue

"Shadowing the London Detective: Harvey Hawk's Short-Stop" by Capt. Howard Holmes appears in this September 26, 1894 issue of Beadle and Adams' ten-cent weekly. The serialized mystery opens in the shadowed room of Popsy Vane, an enigmatic London astrologer and purveyor of mysterious "quieters." A well-dressed stranger arrives at Vane's quarters near Trinity Church, threatening him with knowledge of a past incident in Seville and coercing him into selling a poisonous preparation wrapped in blue paper. The stranger pays with a bloodstained gold bracelet bearing a ruby, sending Vane into shocked collapse. The narrative then shifts to New York, where wealthy millionaire Payson Esty is discovered murdered in his bedroom—throat cut and robbed—by his son Harold. Detectives arrive to interrogate the household staff and Esty's two children, including his daughter Mora, while Harold suspects foul play rather than suicide. The OCR becomes increasingly garbled toward the conclusion.

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