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Bramah Ernest. The Specimen Case
The Specimen Case
Table of Contents
PREFACE
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I. MING TSEUEN AND THE EMERGENCY
II. THE DELICATE CASE OF MLLE. CÉLESTINE BON
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III. THE DEAD MARCH
IV. A VERY BLACK BUSINESS
V. THE BUNCH OF VIOLETS
An Episode in the War-time Activities of Max Carrados
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VI. REVOLUTION
VII. SMOTHERED IN CORPSES
1. THE END OF THE BEGINNING
2. IN THE THICK OF IT
3. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
VIII. FATE AND A FAMILY COUNCIL
IX. LUCRETIA AND THE HORSE- DOCTOR
X. THE WAR HAWKS
I
II
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XI. THE GREAT HOCKINGTON FIND
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XII. HAUTEPIERRE'S STAR
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XIII. THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG
XIV. THE MAKING OF MARIANNA
XV. BOBBIE AND POETIC JUSTICE
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XVI. THE HEART OF THE PAGAN
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XVII. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
XVIII. THE MARQUISE RING
XIX. THE "DRAGON" OF SWAFTON
XX. THE DREAM OF WILLIAM ELGOOD
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XXI. FROM A LONDON BALCONY
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THE END
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Ernest Bramah
Published by Good Press, 2021
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It is a little difficult, as the hand holds the pen, to appreciate a Mystery in relation to oneself. The nearest parallel that occurs is the case of the dentist (as described in Punch) who administered gas to himself preparatory to extracting one of his own teeth. Being intimately concerned, but quite unconscious of what is going on, I am therefore driven to contemporary record. So far as I have any evidence, Mr. Edward Shanks was the first to use the fatal word. Referring to The Wallet of Kai Lung, he would seem to have written: "Its name was therefore passed from mouth to mouth in a mysterious way, but few people had ever seen it or knew what it was like."
If this is indeed the fount and origin of the legend the historic reference may be proved in the Queen of December the 2nd, 1922. It sounds harmless enough, and in any case I take the opportunity of publicly forgiving Mr. Shanks whatever may result, but Dark Forces were evidently at work, for a few weeks later Mr. Grant Richards found it necessary (in the Times Literary Supplement) to declare: "Meanwhile I am asked all sorts of questions about the book and its author. Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah? and so on."
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