Fiction · 1907
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
During a blizzard in February 1883, Tinkletown's marshal Anderson Crow finds a basket on his doorstep holding a six-week-old girl, a note stitched to her dress asking him to raise her as his own and promising a thousand dollars a year for her keep. He and his wife take her in and name her Rosalie; years on, as she grows into the town's pride and joy, a stranger in black arrives asking questions that Anderson — marshal, fire chief, and self-appointed detective all at once — can't leave alone.
George Barr McCutcheon, already known for Graustark, published the novel in 1907.
Bibliomancer restores the 1907 text exactly as McCutcheon wrote it.
Contents
- Note
- The haunted house
- Chapter I — Anderson Crow, Detective
- Chapter II — The Pursuit Begins
- Chapter III — The Culprits
- Chapter IV — Anderson Rectifies an Error
- Chapter V — The Babe on the Doorstep
- Chapter VI — Reflection and Deduction
- Chapter VII — The Mysterious Visitor
- Chapter VIII — Some Years Go By
- Chapter IX — The Village Queen
- Chapter X — Rosalie Has Plans of Her Own
- Chapter XI — Elsie Banks
- Chapter XII — The Spelling-Bee
- Chapter XIII — A Tinkletown Sensation
- Chapter XIV — A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Chapter XV — Rosalie Disappears
- Chapter XVI — The Haunted House
- Chapter XVII — Wicker Bonner, Harvard
- Chapter XVIII — The Men in the Sleigh
- Chapter XIX — With the Kidnapers
- Chapter XX — In the Cave
- Chapter XXI — The Trap-Door
- Chapter XXII — Jack, the Giant Killer
- Chapter XXIII — Tinkletown’s Convulsion
- Chapter XXIV — The Flight of the Kidnapers
- Chapter XXV — As the Heart Grows Older
- Chapter XXVI — The Left Ventricle
- Chapter XXVII — The Grin Derisive
- Chapter XXVIII — The Blind Man’s Eyes
- Chapter XXIX — The Mysterious Questioner
- Chapter XXX — The Hemisphere Train Robbery
- Chapter XXXI — “As You Like It”
- Chapter XXXII — The Luck of Anderson Crow
- Chapter XXXIII — Bill Briggs Tells a Tale
- Chapter XXXIV — Elsie Banks Returns
- Chapter XXXV — The Story is Told
- Chapter XXXVI — Anderson Crow’s Resignation
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