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
  • covers
  • title page : half
  • advert
  • title page : full
  • table of contents
• 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.