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A mounting conspiracy in Stockholm draws together spies, adventurers, and exiles around an enigmatic mastermind who seeks to exploit wartime chaos; investigators and assorted allies, including a determined young man and a skeptical baron, trace a trail of secret documents, betrayals, thefts, and ambushes through successive probes and skirmishes, culminating in a tense final confrontation where resourcefulness and timely action avert a dangerous plot.

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Title: The Copper House

A detective story

Author: Julius Regis

Release date: September 20, 2025 [eBook #76903]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928

Credits: Tim Miller, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COPPER HOUSE ***

THE COPPER HOUSE

A Detective Story

BY JULIUS REGIS

AUTHOR OF "NO. 13 TORONI"

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1923

Copyright, 1923,
By
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
First Printing, September, 1923

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


CONTENTS

Part I-The Whirlpool
PROLOGUE
I. BARON FREDERICK FAYERLING WAITS IN VAIN FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT IN EUROPE
II. A YOUNG MAN ARRIVES FROM CALIFORNIA, AND HEARS SOME UNEXPECTED NEWS
III. WALLION MEETS B. 22, AND CERTAIN REMARKABLE EPISODES IN A GREAT MAN'S CAREER ARE DESCRIBED WITH THE DESIRED EFFECT
IV. LEONARD GRATH ACTS ON HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITY AND MEETS WITH A GIRL WHO RUNS AWAY FROM HIM
V. IN WHICH IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE OWNER IS A GUEST IN HIS OWN HOUSE
VI. THE PROBLEM-HUNTER
VII. THE SLAYERS
Part II-The Twentieth of July
VIII. LONA IVANOVNA ASKS HER FIRST QUESTION
IX. UNREST IN BOTH CAMPS; AN OUTPOST SKIRMISH AND A WARNING
X. THE SITUATION BECOMES ACUTE
XI. MAURICE WALLION LOOKS ABOUT HIM A BIT AND MAKES A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
XII. IN WHICH WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE SHADOW OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT
XIII. LONA IVANOVNA ASKS A SECOND QUESTION AND GETS AN UNEXPECTED REPLY
XIV. THE STORY OF THE BERNIN FAMILY
Part III-Gabriel Ortiz
XV. THE STORM BURSTS
XVI. GABRIEL ORTIZ MUSTERS HIS FORCES AND COUNTS HIS PRISONERS
XVII. LEO AND SONIA DETERMINE TO STEAL A MOTOR-CAR BUT FALL INTO AN UNEXPECTED TRAP
XVIII. TARRASCHIN'S MEMORANDUM CHANGES OWNERS
XIX. WALLION SPEAKS OUT AND RASTAKOV IS BALKED OF HIS PREY
XX. IN WHICH WALLION SHOWS THAT A GREAT DEAL CAN BE DONE IN TEN MINUTES
XXI. THE END OF A GLORIOUS DREAM