The Lock and Key Library: Modern English Stories by Julian Hawthorne — Bibliomancer edition cover

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Fiction · 1909

The Lock and Key Library: Modern English Stories

Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

Reading time
about 9 h
Length
125,986 words · 448 pages
Structure
37 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English

The Lock and Key Library: Modern English Stories, first published in 1909, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Note
  2. Modern English
  3. I
  4. II
  5. III
  6. I
  7. II
  8. III
  9. IV
  10. V
  11. VI
  12. VII
  13. VIII
  14. IX
  15. Narrative First
  16. I — “Hullo, there! Hostler! Hullo-o-o!”
  17. II
  18. III
  19. Narrative Second
  20. IV
  21. V
  22. VI
  23. VII
  24. VIII
  25. IX
  26. X
  27. XI
  28. XII
  29. XIII
  30. Narrative Third
  31. XIV
  32. XV
  33. XVI
  34. I
  35. II
  36. III
  37. II
  38. I
  39. II
  40. Postscript

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