
Death to the Inquisitive!
CHAPTER I. THE WHITECHAPEL MYSTERY.
CHAPTER II. A SUICIDAL ATTEMPT.
CHAPTER III. RESCUED BY THIEVES.
CHAPTER IV. THE SHAME-BORN CHILD.
CHAPTER V. MAURICE SINCLAIR.
CHAPTER VI. A PAINFUL REMINISCENCE.
CHAPTER VII. THE BREATH OF PASSION.
CHAPTER VIII. A MIDNIGHT CRIME.
CHAPTER IX. MAURICE SINCLAIR ESCAPES WITH HIS VICTIM.
A heavy fog clings to the narrow alleys of Whitechapel, where the stench of tobacco, stale beer, and refuse hangs like a pall over the cracked cobbles. In the dead of night a woman's desperate scream pierces the gloom, stirring a rag‑tag crowd of desperate souls from their hidden corners. Their shuffling, half‑curious, half‑terrified, bodies cling to walls and gutters as they scramble toward the source of the cries.
Among the throng emerges the tragic figure of “Queen
Language
en
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~3 hours (216K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
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Produced by MWS, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2018-12-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1862–1945
A remarkably prolific American writer, she produced novels, poems, short stories, and journalism under several pen names. Her work ranged from popular fiction to magazine and newspaper editing, giving her a wide reach in late 19th- and early 20th-century print culture.
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