Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives

by Lawrence L. Lynch

EN·~10 hours·73 chapters

Chapters

73 total

THE GREAT DETECTIVE SERIES.

0:08

LAWRENCE L. LYNCH,

0:29

DANGEROUS GROUND.

0:01

PROLOGUE.

21:18

CHAPTER I. - “STARS OF THE FORCE.”

9:49

CHAPTER II. - ODDLY EMPLOYED.

9:32

CHAPTER III. - THE EFFECT OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.

7:01

CHAPTER IV. - ENLISTED AGAINST EACH OTHER.

8:13

CHAPTER V. - “STANHOPE’S FIRST TRICK.”

9:34

CHAPTER VI. - STANHOPE’S HUMANITY.

4:54

Description

A storm‑tossed night on the Kansas frontier in 1859 finds a small wagon train huddled around a flickering campfire. The wind howls through the timber, rain lashes the ground, and uneasy travelers clutch lanterns while a mother watches her child from the edge of the shelter. In the gloom, the group’s leader, Captain

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Duration

~10 hours (625K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Harry Lamé, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Jun 10, 2011

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36366

Subjects

Fiction Detective and mystery stories PS

About the author

Lawrence L. Lynch

A pioneering American mystery novelist writing under a male pen name, this late-19th-century storyteller helped shape early detective fiction with fast-moving plots and a flair for suspense.

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