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Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives / Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives

Chapter 50: Transcriber’s notes
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A collection of detective case histories presents three investigations: the pursuit of violent river outlaws by organized detectives and local vigilantes that moves from ambushes to capture; the unmasking of a charismatic impostor who uses forgery and social maneuvering to manipulate a lucrative mining and diamond scheme, leading to arrest abroad; and a metropolitan inquiry into a suspicious death by poisoning that traces forged financial instruments and a manipulative suspect to conviction. Each account emphasizes investigative technique, deception, and the challenges of proving criminal schemes.

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Transcriber’s notes

Missing hyphenation at line breaks has been assumed, e.g. "necessary" not "neces sary" on page 81. Hyphenation has been standardized, e.g., "bookkeeper", "cornfield", and "housewarming". Nonstandard spellings have been maintained, e.g. "intrusted", "dryest", "smouldering", "patroled", "tragical", "unnegotiable", "quartette", "gayety", "indorsed", "reëntered". Missing periods have been added at ends of sentences. Other printers errors have been corrected as follows:

Page v - "unvail" replaced with "unveil" for internal consistency

Page 80 - "cousins" replaced with "Cousins"

Page 92 - "Harrington" replaced with "Farrington"

Page 104 - "insant" replaced with "instant"

Page 156 - "pleasantly" replaced with "pleasantry"

Page 160 - "to k" replaced with "took"

Page 202 - "out door" replaced with "outdoor"

Figure caption after page 166 - "Judges'" replaced with "Judge's"

Figure caption after page 203 - "Fete Champetre" replaced with "Fête Champêtre" for consistency

Page 212 - "Don Pedo" replaced with "Don Pedro"

Page 321 - "bfore" replaced with "before"

Page 361 - "hairbreath" replaced with "hairbreadth"