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Title: The Somnambulist and the Detective
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller

Author: Allan Pinkerton

Release Date: December 9, 2009 [EBook #30636]

Language: English

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ALLAN PINKERTON'S

GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES.

1.--THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND DETECTIVES.

2.--STRIKERS, COMMUNISTS, AND DETECTIVES.

3.--CRIMINAL REMINISCENCES AND DETECTIVES.

4.--THE MODEL TOWN AND DETECTIVES.

5.--THE SPIRITUALISTS AND DETECTIVES.

6.--THE EXPRESSMEN AND DETECTIVES.

7.--THE SOMNAMBULIST AND DETECTIVES.

8.--CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE.

9.--THE MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND DETECTIVES.

10.--GYPSIES AND DETECTIVES.

11.--BUCHOLZ AND DETECTIVES.

12.--THE RAILROAD FORGER AND DETECTIVES.

13.--BANK ROBBERS AND DETECTIVES.

14.--THE BURGLAR'S FATE AND DETECTIVES.

15.--A DOUBLE LIFE AND DETECTIVES.

16.--PROFESSIONAL THIEVES AND DETECTIVES.

17.--THIRTY YEARS A DETECTIVE.

18.--THE SPY OF THE REBELLION.

"The mental characteristics of Allan Pinkerton were judgment as to
facts, knowledge of men, the ability to concentrate his faculties on one
subject, and the persistent power of will. A mysterious problem of
crime, against which his life was devoted, presented to his thought, was
solved almost in an instant, and seemingly by his intuitions. With
half-closed eyes he saw the scene in which the wrong was done, read
every movement of the criminals, and reached invariably the correct
conclusion as to their conduct and guilt."

_A new uniform edition, cloth bound, Illustrated.
Price per vol._ $1.00.

G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers

NEW YORK.

[Illustration: "_At this instant I flung open one of the shutters, and
simultaneously I heard a cry of horror from my clerk._"--Page 19.]

THE SOMNAMBULIST AND THE DETECTIVE.

THE MURD