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BY RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI
=An Artist in Crime.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.
=A Conflict of Evidence.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.
=A Modern Wizard.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.
=The Crime of the Century.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.
=Final Proof, or, the Value of Evidence.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK & LONDON
FINAL PROOF OR THE VALUE OF EVIDENCE
BY R. OTTOLENGUI
AUTHOR OF "AN ARTIST IN CRIME," "A CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE," "THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY," ETC.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1898
Copyright, 1898 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
PREFATORY
The first meeting between Mr. Barnes, the detective, and Robert LeroyMitchel, the gentleman who imagines himself to be able to outdodetectives in their own line of work, was fully set forth in thenarrative entitled _An Artist in Crime_. Subsequently the two menoccupied themselves with the solution of a startling murder mystery, thedetails of which were recorded in _The Crime of the Century_. Thepresent volume contains the history of several cases which attractedtheir attention in the interval between those already given to theworld, the first having occured shortly after the termination of theevents in _An Artist in Crime_, and the others in the order here given,so that in a sense these stories are continuous and interdependent.
R. O.
CONTENTS
PAGE
I THE PHOENIX OF CRIME 1
II THE MISSING LINK 132
III THE NAMELESS MAN 151
IV THE MONTEZUMA EMERALD 169
V A SINGULAR ABDUCTION 189
VI THE AZTEC OPAL 210
VII THE DUPLICATE HARLEQUIN 230
VIII THE PEARLS OF ISIS 261
IX A PROMISSORY NOTE 294
X A NOVEL FORGERY 325
XI A FROSTY MORNING 341
XII A SHADOW OF PROOF 365
FINAL PROOF
OR
THE VALUE OF EVIDENCE
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