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One of three children, Ottolengui was a son of Daniel Ottolengui and Helen Rosalie Rodrigues Ottolengui. He had a sister, Helen, and a brother, Lee.
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Chapter I The Crime "It's my opinion they won't catch him. Marvel's no fool, if he is hot headed, and he knows enough to keep under cover now that they are after him." "That's all right, Everly, and, as you say, I guess Marvel can hide away well enough. But what I want to know is, what's he got to hide for? He an't done nothin' as I can see, 'cept to fire off his pistol when he was mad as thunder." "And right he was, too," said another lounger in the saloon where this conversation occurred. "I say any man of grit would have done the same. Why, didn't the old man try to disgrace him right before his sweetheart and a lot of girls?" "Well, anyway," said the store-keeper, removing his pipe to speak, "smart or fool, I guess they'll get him. I hear as how the Squire is terrible cut up about this thing, and he's sent down to Boston for a regular detective." "The Squire's sent to Boston for a detective?" said Everly. "I wouldn't have believed that the Squire would do such a thing. To set a spy on the track of one of his neighbors! Why, it's disgraceful!" Over in the corner, on chairs drawn up close to the stove, sat two strangers. They had arrived in Lee, that morning, and after taking drinks at this the only tavern in the town, had apparently set about getting warm. The elder of the two here ventured a remark. "Gentlemen," said he, "if you'll pardon the curiosity of a stranger, I'd like to ask you what crime this young man has committed?" A pause followed, whilst the strangers became the object of a close scrutiny by all present. Finally, Will Everly stepped forward, and looking his interrogator steadily in the face, said: "I am Will Everly--Walter Marvel's friend. Before I answer any of your questions I must know who you are, and why you wish to k .............
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CONTENTS. I. A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION 1 II. A DARING AND SUCCESSFUL TRAIN ROBBERY 16 III. MR. BARNES DISCOVERS AN ARTISTIC MURDER 30 IV. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND 46 V. THE SEVENTH BUTTON 56 VI. MR. BARNES'S TRAP 75 VII. MR. RANDOLPH HAS A FIGHT WITH HIS CONSCIENCE 95 VIII. LUCETTE 115 IX. THE DIARY OF A DETECTIVE 129 X. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 138 XI. MR. BARNES RECEIVES SEVERAL LETTERS 154 XII. THE HISTORY OF THE RUBY 169 XIII. MR. BARNES GOES SOUTH 189 XIV. AN INTERRUPTED WEDDING 208 XV. MR. MITCHEL EXPLAINS A FEW THINGS 223 XVI. MR. BARNES DISCOVERS A VALUABLE CLUE 239 XVII. A NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY 255 XVIII. MR. BARNES'S NARRATIVE 273 AN ARTIST IN CRIME. CHAPTER I. A GENTLEMAN THINKS HE CAN COMMIT A CRIME AND ESCAPE DETECTION. "Jack Barnes never gets left, you bet." "That was a close call, though," replied the Pullman porter who had given Mr. Barnes a helping hand, in his desperate effort to board the midnight express as it rolled out of Boston. "I wouldn't advise you to jump on moving trains often." "Thank you for your good advice, and for your assistance. Here's a quarter for you. Show me to my section, I am nearly dead, I am so tired." "Upper ten, right this way, sir. It is all ready for you to turn in." When Mr. Barnes entered the coach, no one was in sight. If there were other passengers, they were abed. A few minutes later, he himself was patting two little bags of feathers, and placing one atop of the other in a vain attempt to make them serve as one pillow. He had told the porter that he was tired, and this was so true that he should have fallen asleep quickly. Instead, his brain seemed specially active, and sleep impossible. Mr. Barnes, Jack Barnes, as he called himself to the porter, was a detective, and counted one of the shrewdest in New York, where he controlled a private agency established by himself. He had just completed what he considered a most satisfactory piece of work. A large robbery had been committed in New York, and suspicion of the strongest nature had pointed in the direction of a young man who had immediately been arrested. For ten days the press of the country had been trying and convicting the suspect, during which time Mr. Barnes had quietly left the Metropolis. Twelve hours before we met him, those who read the papers over their toast had been amazed to learn that the suspect was innocent, and that the real criminal had been apprehended by the keen-witted Jack Barnes. What was better, he had recovered the lost funds, amounting to thirty thousand dollars. He had had a long chase after his man, whom he had shadowed from city to city and watched day and night, actuated to this course by a slight clue in which he had placed his faith. Now, his man fast in a Boston prison, he was on his way to New York for requisition papers. As he had said, he was tired, yet despite his need of complete rest his thoughts persisted in rehearsing all the intricate details of the reasoning which had at last led him to the solution of the mystery. As he lay in his upper berth awake these words reached his ears: "If I knew that man Barnes was after me, I should simply surrender." This promised to be the beginning of an entertaining conversation, and as he could not sleep, Mr. Barnes prepared to listen. Extensive experience as a detective had made him long ago forget the philosophic arguments for and against eavesdropping. The voice which had attracted him was low, but his ears were keen. He located it as coming from the section next ahead of his, number .......
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High Quality FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION: Ottolengui, Rodrigues :A Modern Wizard :Originally published by New York etc. : G. P. Putnam's sons in 1894. Book will be printed in black and white, with grayscale images. Book will be 6 inches wide by 9 inches tall and soft cover bound. Any foldouts will be scaled to page size. If the book is larger than 1000 pages, it will be printed and bound in two parts. Due to the age of the original titles, we cannot be held responsible for missing pages, faded, or cut off text.
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This Halcyon Classics ebook contains fifteen detective/mystery novels and short stories by Rodrigues Ottolengui. Ottolengui (1861-1937) was a dentist by profession and also an accomplished mystery writer who published four novels and more than a dozen short stories in his career, including his well-received AN ARTIST IN CRIME. Ottolengui also published several professional books on dentistry. This ebook includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.
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Rodrigues Ottolengui was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to New York, where he would spend most of his adult life, in 1877. In addition to his work in dentistry, Ottolengui is remembered as an early exponent of detective fiction, with four novels and a short story collection published during the 1890s. This Edition Contains 4 Works; ● An Artist in Crime ● A Conflict of Evidence ● A Modern Wizard ● Final Proof This Edition Features: ● Biography of Rodrigues Ottolengui ● Active Table of Contents ● Well Kindle Formatting And if you enjoy this volume, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Jame-Books" to see all the other entries of Jame-Books Publishing.
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One of three children, Ottolengui was a son of Daniel Ottolengui and Helen Rosalie Rodrigues Ottolengui. He had a sister, Helen, and a brother, Lee.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to New York, where he would spend most of his adult life, in 1877. He was the editor of Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science, and Literature for thirty-five years, which he continued to edit after retiring from dentistry. He compiled, drawing from articles in Items of Interest.
A dental pioneer, Ottolengui was one of the first to use X-rays and was a specialist in orthodontics and root canal therapy.
He was also interested in entomology, taxidermy, and photography. In addition to his work in dentistry, Ottolengui is remembered as an early exponent of detective fiction, with four novels and a short story collection published during the 1890s.
The short story volume, Final Proof, was recognized by Ellery Queen as one of Queen"s Quorum—the most important collections of detective short stories. Many years later a second series, Before the Fact, originally published in 1901, was discovered and published in book form edited and introduced by detective fiction scholar Douglas G. Greene.
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