R. Holmes & Co., by John Kendrick Bangs

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Title: R. Holmes & Co.

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Release Date: February 11, 2007 [EBook #20559]

Language: English

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R. HOLMES & CO.

Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth

by John Kendrick Bangs

Contents I. INTRODUCING MR. RAFFLES HOLMES II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DORRINGTON RUBY SEAL III. THE ADVENTURE OF MRS. BURLINGAME'S DIAMOND STOMACHER IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING PENDANTS V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRASS CHECK VI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE HIRED BURGLAR VII. THE REDEMPTION OF YOUNG BILLINGTON RAND VIII. "THE NOSTALGIA OF NERVY JIM THE SNATCHER" IX. THE ADVENTURE OF ROOM 407 X. THE MAJOR-GENERAL'S PEPPERPOTS

R. HOLMES & CO.

I INTRODUCING MR. RAFFLES HOLMES

It was a blistering night in August. All day long the mercury in the thermometer had been flirting with the figures at the top of the tube, and the promised shower at night which a mendacious Weather Bureau had been prophesying as a slight mitigation of our sufferings was conspicuous wholly by its absence. I had but one comfort in the sweltering hours of the day, afterno

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