Uncle Sam, Detective

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William Atherton DuPuy. Uncle Sam, Detective

Uncle Sam, Detective

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INTRODUCTION

I THE CONSCIENCE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

II THE BANK WRECKER

III A FIASCO IN FIREARMS

IV THE SUGAR SAMPLERS

V THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SLEUTH

VI "ROPING" THE SMUGGLERS OF JAMAICA

VII A BANK CASE FROM THE OUTSIDE

VIII BEHIND CUSTOMS SCREENS

IX WITH THE REVOLUTION MAKERS

X THE ELUSIVE FUGITIVE

XI THE BANK BOOKKEEPER

XII PUTTING UP THE MASTER BLUFF

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William Atherton DuPuy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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It was a week later and the quiet of after-midnight rested upon the little mountain town of Wheeler. In such towns there are no all-night industries, no street cars to drone through deserted thoroughfares, not even an arc light to sputter at street crossings. There is but the occasional stamping of a horse in its stall or the baying of a watch dog in answer to the howl of a wolf on the hillside. But murder was planned to take place that night in Wheeler and A. Spaulding Dowling knew all about it.

As the town slept four stealthy figures crept down the trail that cuts across the point of the Hunchback. Soft-footedly, rifles in hand, they passed down a side street beneath the dense shade of giant sycamores. It was but three blocks from the woods to Main street. Reaching this artery of the town, two of the men crouched in the shadow while two others crossed the street and went a block further, turning to the left. Each group then shifted itself a hundred feet to the left and paused again.

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