A Dead Man's Step, an electronic edition
Lawrence L. Lynch [ Van Deventer, Emma Murdoch ]
date: 1893
source publisher: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
collection: Genre Fiction
Table of Contents
- front matter
- part: [I.] A DEAD MAN'S STEP.
- CHAPTER I. "WOE IS ME!"
- CHAPTER II. THE FIRST STONE.
- CHAPTER III. "HE ACCUSED YOU!"
- CHAPTER IV. BEFORE THE INQUEST.
- CHAPTER V. THE INQUEST.
- CHAPTER VI. ORA.
- CHAPTER VII. "HIS LIFE IS IN OUR HANDS."
- CHAPTER VIII. "AND COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE."
- CHAPTER IX. THE DEERINGS.
- CHAPTER X. A DETECTIVE'S THEORIES.
- CHAPTER XI. THREADS HERE AND THERE.
- CHAPTER XII. ORA AND VALENTINE.
- CHAPTER XIII. A MUDDLE.
- CHAPTER XIV. BRENDA MEETS A FOE.
- CHAPTER XV. HELD IN CHECK.
- CHAPTER XVI. "WARNED."
- CHAPTER XVII. TOM WELLS WITHHOLDS "THE NEWS."
- CHAPTER XVIII. ONE WOMAN'S COURAGE.
- CHAPTER XIX. A TROUBLED HOUSEHOLD.
- CHAPTER XX. FRIEND AND FOE.
- CHAPTER XXI. A STRANGE LETTER.
- CHAPTER XXII. MURTAGH AT WORK.
- CHAPTER XXIII. DISMISSED.
- CHAPTER XXIV. BROOK.
- CHAPTER XXV. BRENDA'S WARNING.
- CHAPTER XXVI. BROOK OR BRUCE.
- CHAPTER XXVII. POISON.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. DESPAIR.
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE INVALID'S COMMANDS.
- CHAPTER XXX. A STRANGE WILL.
- CHAPTER XXXI. OBJECTS OF SUSPICION.
- CHAPTER XXXII. BROOK'S CONFIDENCE.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. BRENDA AND MURTAGH MAKE TERMS.
- part: A DEAD MAN'S STEP
PART II.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. A LUMP OF WAX.
- CHAPTER XXXV. UNCLE NAT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ALLIANCE.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. THE "CAT."
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. CRUMBS.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. A VOLUNTEER.
- CHAPTER XL. "MY PRETTY COUSIN VAL."
- CHAPTER XLI. "RATS."
- CHAPTER XLII. SARITA'S CASE.
- CHAPTER XLIII. MURTAGH'S THEORY.
- CHAPTER XLIV. GHOSTLY FOOTSTEPS.
- CHAPTER XLV. JOHN ROSS REAPPEARS.
- CHAPTER XLVI. A SLEEP-WALKER.
- CHAPTER XLVII. THE PRODIGAL BROTHER.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. CONCERNING THE AMETHYST BUTTON.
- CHAPTER XLIX. INSANE.
- CHAPTER L. STEADFAST.
- CHAPTER LI. ABOUT TO SPRING.
- CHAPTER LII. AT BAY.
- CHAPTER LIII. ORA'S CONFESSION.
- CHAPTER LIV. SCIENTIFICALLY PROVED.
- CHAPTER LV. ORA'S LAST MOVE.
- CHAPTER LVI. TRAPPED.
- CHAPTER LVII. A DETECTIVE IN COURT.
- CHAPTER LVIII. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD.
- CHAPTER LIX. ORA'S "AMENDE HONOURABLE."
- CHAPTER LX. NEMESIS.
- CHAPTER LXI. A HORRIBLE MOMENT.
- CHAPTER LXII. ASSISTED JUSTICE.
- CHAPTER LXIII. AND PEACE AT LAST.