Double Barreled Detective Story, A

By Twain, Mark

Book Id: WPLBN0002952653
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File Size: 57.70 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Double Barreled Detective Story, A
Author:	Twain, Mark
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Mystery
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Double Barreled Detective Story, A
Historic Publication Date:	1902
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Twain, B. M. (1902). Double Barreled Detective Story, A. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic.

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Mystery