Strange clues, or, Chronicles of a city detective

Short stories Bound in illustrated paper-covered boards Copital! -- A harvest mystery -- The square-toed bluchers -- Little Liz's locket -- A cracksman's ruse -- A waif of the gutter -- A silver-plated button -- Bonnie Bell, the machinist -- Spirit rappers -- Unclaimed money -- Larks! -- The blood-stone ring -- The wife-killer -- Self executioners -- Aileen O'Reilly's task -- Needle Nip's strange record -- A spider's web -- An unburied burglar -- Caught in a grey coat -- The cam'-staned door step -- The missing tools -- An old score -- An expensive prescription -- Dead beat, an incident of the bank failure -- A splutter of ink -- A woman's love -- Born to crime -- A house with crimson blinds -- The diamond-ringed apprentice -- The umbrella mender's quest Topp, C.W. Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, 1849-1905 Glover & Greene. Victorian detective fiction Electronic reproduction digitized The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Publications Program Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library copy from the collection of Dorothy Glover and Graham Greene