The Female Detective

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Andrew Forrester. The Female Detective

The Female Detective

Table of Contents

Introduction

Tenant For Life

Georgy

The Unraveled Mystery

The Judgment of Conscience

A Child Found Dead: Murder Or No Murder

The Unknown Weapon

The Mystery

THE END

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Andrew Forrester

Published by Good Press, 2021

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My trade is a necessary one, but the world holds aloof my order. Nor do I blame the world over much for its determination. I am quite aware that there is something peculiarly objectionable in the spy, but nevertheless it will be admitted that the spy is as peculiarly necessary as he or she is peculiarly objectionable.

The world would very soon discover the loss of the detective system, and yet if such a loss were to take place, if the certain bad results which would be sure to follow its abolition were made most evident, the world would still avoid the detective as a social companion, from the next moment he or she resumed office.

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