Chapter I: Front Matter

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101--The Stolen Pay Train and Other Stories. By Nicholas Carter.
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99--Gideon Drexel’s Millions. By Nicholas Carter.
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95--Sealed Orders; or, The Triple Mystery. By Nicholas Carter.
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87--Nick Carter and the Green Goods Men.
86--Brant Adams. By Judson R. Taylor.
85--A Dead Man’s Grip. By Nicholas Carter.
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83--The Crescent Brotherhood. By Nicholas Carter.
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81--Wanted by Two Clients. By Nicholas Carter.
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79--The Sign of the Crossed Knives. By Nicholas Carter.
78--The Chosen Man. By Judson R. Taylor.
77--The Van Alstine Case. By Nicholas Carter.
76--Face to Face. By Donald J. McKenzie.
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65--Found on the Beach. By Nicholas Carter.
64--The Red Camellia. By Fortune DuBoisgobey.
63--The Chevalier Casse-Cou. By Fortune DuBoisgobey.
62--A Fair Criminal. By Nicholas Carter.
61--The Maltese Cross. By Eugene T. Sawyer.
60--A Chase Around the World. By Mariposa Weir.
59--A Millionaire Partner. By Nicholas Carter.
58--Muertalma, or the Poisoned Pin. By Marmaduke Dey.
57--The Vestibule Limited Mystery. By Marline Manly.
56--At Thompson’s Ranch. By Nicholas Carter.
55--His Great Revenge, Vol. II. By Fortune DuBoisgobey.
54--His Great Revenge, Vol. I. By Fortune DuBoisgobey.
53--An Accidental Password. By Nicholas Carter.
52--The Post Office Detective. By George W. Goode.
51--The Los Huecos Mystery. By Eugene T. Sawyer.
50--The Man from India. By Nicholas Carter.
49--At Odds With Scotland Yard. By Nicholas Carter.
48--The Great Travers Case. By Dr. Mark Merrick.
47--The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. By Fergus Hume.
46--Check No. 777. By Nicholas Carter.
45--Old Specie, the Treasury Detective. By Marline Manley.
44--The Blue Veil. By Fortune Du Boisgobey.
43--Among the Nihilists. By Nicholas Carter.
42--The Revenue Detective. By Police Captain James.
41--John Needham’s Double. By Joseph Hatton.
40--The Mountaineer Detective. By C. W. Cobb.
39--Among the Counterfeiters. By Nicholas Carter.
38--The Matapan Affair. By Fortune Du Boisgobey.
37--The Prairie Detective. By Leander P. Richardson.
36--The Crime of the Opera House, Vol. II. By F. Du Boisgobey.
35--The Crime of the Opera House, Vol. I. By F. Du Boisgobey.
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33--The Convict Colonel. By Fortune Du Boisgobey.
32--A Mysterious Case. By K. F. Hill.
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29--The Clique of Gold. By Emile Gaboriau.
28--Under His Thumb. By Donald J. McKenzie.
27--The Steel Necklace. By Fortune Du Boisgobey.
26--File No. 113. By Emile Gaboriau.
25--The Detective’s Triumph. By Emile Gaboriau.
24--The Detective’s Dilemma. By Emile Gaboriau.
23--Evidence By Telephone. By Nicholas Carter.
22--The Champdoce Mystery. By Emile Gaboriau.
21--A Deposit Vault Puzzle. By Nicholas Carter.
20--Caught in the Net. By Emile Gaboriau.
19--A Chance Discovery. By Nicholas Carter.
18--The Gamblers’ Syndicate. By Nicholas Carter.
17--The Piano Box Mystery. By Nicholas Carter.
16--A Woman’s Hand. By Nicholas Carter.
15--The Widow Lerouge. By Emile Gaboriau.
14--Caught in the Toils. By Nicholas Carter.
13--The Mysterious Mail Robbery. By Nicholas Carter.
12--Playing a Bold Game. By Nicholas Carter.
11--Fighting Against Millions. By Nicholas Carter.
10--The Old Detective’s Pupil. By Nicholas Carter.
9--A Stolen Identity. By Nicholas Carter.
8--An Australian Klondike. By Nicholas Carter.
7--The American Marquis. By Nicholas Carter.
6--A Wall Street Haul. By Nicholas Carter.
5--The Crime of a Countess. By Nicholas Carter.
4--Tracked Across the Atlantic. By Nicholas Carter.
3--A Titled Counterfeiter. By Nicholas Carter.
2--The Great Enigma. By Nicholas Carter.
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SHADOWED BY A
DETECTIVE

OR

THE WOMAN IN WAX

BY

VIRGINIA CHAMPLIN

NEW YORK
STREET & SMITH, PUBLISHERS
238 WILLIAM STREET

Copyright, 1885,
By J. S. OGILVIE & CO.

Copyright, 1899,
By STREET & SMITH

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE

I. The Kidnapping 5

II. What Became of the Heroine 12

III. Robertson Brothers & Co. 26

IV. Honorable Willie Saunders becomes Thoroughly Mad 43

V. Shakespeare’s Tavern 53

VI. The Morgue at Bellevue Hospital 62

VII. Saunders almost loses his Mind, while Captain Young loses
his time 74

VIII. Taking a Cast of the Dead 84

IX. What the Honorable Coroner Davis thought, and what
Robertson, Jr., was convinced of 92

X. A Mohick tells of a visit big Kelly receives which he
little expected, and how William Dow transforms
a visitor into a prisoner 100

XI. A Criminal Court in the State of New York 115

XII. How the worthy Mr. Midler exhorted his penitents to die
like Christians 127

XIII. In which James Gobson escapes the Gallows, and the
Honorable Coroner Davis’ remorse 137

XIV. In which Willie Saunders passes from despair to amazement,
and from amazement to anger 149

XV. William Dow’s Remorse 161

XVI. William Dow’s Revenge--seeking the unknown 169

XVII. A Souvenir of Love 184

XVIII. Two Villas at Jamaica Plain 196

XIX. What happened on leaving Barker’s 204

XX. A wife’s love and a maid’s love 217

XXI. The murderer of a Dead Woman 226

XXII. Kitty Bell’s Story 238

XXIII. Wharf 32 247

Shadowed by a Detective;

OR,

THE WOMAN IN WAX.