The Poisoned Pen

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Arthur B. Reeve. The Poisoned Pen

The Poisoned Pen

Table of Contents

I

THE POISONED PEN

DR. DIXON

DEAR HARRIS:

VERA

DR. DIXON

II

THE YEGGMAN

III

THE GERM OF DEATH

IV

THE FIREBUG

V

THE CONFIDENCE KING

VI

THE SAND-HOG

VII

THE WHITE SLAVE

O'CONNOR

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VIII

THE FORGER

IX

THE UNOFFICIAL SPY

CHATEAUROUGE

X

THE SMUGGLER

XI

THE INVISIBLE RAY

GRACE HASWELL MARTIN

XII

THE CAMPAIGN GRAFTER

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Arthur B. Reeve

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"Lastly," went on Craig, utterly regardless of Thurston's frantic efforts to speak, "we come to the note that was discovered so queerly crumpled up in the jar of ammonia on Vera Lytton's dressing-table. I have here a cylindrical glass jar in which I place some sal-ammoniac and quicklime. I will wet it and heat it a little. That produces the pungent gas of ammonia.

"On one side of this third piece of paper I myself write with this mercurous nitrate solution. You see, I leave no mark on the paper as I write. I fold it up and drop it into the jar-and in a few seconds withdraw it. Here is a very quick way of producing something like the slow result of sunlight with silver nitrate. The fumes of ammonia have formed the precipitate of black mercurous nitrate, a very distinct black writing which is almost indelible. That is what is technically called invisible rather than sympathetic ink."

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