Detectives

Detective Jayne Takes on Widows and Adventuresses [published Sep. 28, 1884]

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Droppin’ in at the Fifth Avenue Hotel some...

The Detectives and the World’s Greatest Impostor [published May 20, 1883]

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A lawyer of this city, residin’ on an...

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The Ghost Writer and the Fortune Teller [published Jan. 15, 1882]

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Among the humbugs of thirty years ago was...

Car Spotters, Instinctive Engineers, and Other Railroad Personalities [published Sep. 10, 1882]

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Dick Carter dropped in at my little place...

Sketches of Police and Private Detectives [published Jan. 16, 1881]

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I have met with all classes of people...

The Robbery of Luther C. Bryant [published Apr. 12, 1885]

jpkntz September 18, 2023

Years ago there used to stand in front...

Spence Pettis, Dishonored Among Thieves [published Dec. 25, 1881]

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I have mentioned in the course of these...

Internal Revenue agent Brooks and the Whiskey Ring [published Sep. 7, 1884]

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I came across Sheridan Shook the other day...

A Mystery of the Old Brewery [published Sep. 16, 1883]

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The Old Brewery, in the old Five Points,...

The Amateur Detective [published Oct. 1, 1882]

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Philip Brown, an old New Yorker, who recently...