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The Sign of Silence

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2 Kenilworth Sir Walter Scott

12 Midshipman Easy Capt. Marryat

13 Japhet in Search of a Father Ditto

14 Jacob Faithful Ditto

15 Peter Simple Ditto

16 The Pickwick Papers Chas. Dickens

18 Barnaby Rudge Ditto

19 Old Curiosity Shop Ditto

20 Martin Chuzzlewit Ditto

21 Oliver Twist Ditto

22 Dombey and Son Ditto

26 The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain

27 Valentine Vox Henry Cockton

33 Ben-Hur Lew Wallace

37 Helen's Babies J. Habberton

38 Other People's Children Ditto

39 A Bad Boy's Diary

40 Blunders of a Bashful Man

41 Catching a Husband

45 Out of the Hurly Burly Max Adeler

48 A Strange Disappearance A. K. Green

51 The Leavenworth Case Ditto

52 The Circular Study Ditto

53 Marked "Personal" Ditto

59 Shadowed by Three L. L. Lynch

61 The Diamond Coterie Ditto

62 Detective's Daughter Ditto

63 Out of a Labyrinth Ditto

65 The Lost Witness Ditto

68 A Slender Clue Ditto

76 Toilers of the Sea Victor Hugo

77 History of a Crime Ditto

78 Ninety-Three Ditto

80 Margaret Catchpole Rev. R. Cobbold

81 Freston Tower Ditto

84 The Mystery of Orcival E. Gaboriau

85 Detective's Dilemma Ditto

86 Detective's Triumph Ditto

88 Caught in the Net Ditto

89 The Champdoce Mystery Ditto

91 Mr. Barnes of New York A. C. Gunter

92 The Princess of Copper Ditto

95 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë

97 Looking Backward Edward Bellamy

103 Frank Fairlegh Frank Smedley

104 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

106 Tom Brown's School Days Hughes

133 Crime and the Criminal R. Marsh

150 Her Splendid Sin Headon Hill

151 Caged Ditto

152 The Avengers Ditto

160 Lorna Doone R. Blackmore

162 For the Term of His Natural Life Marcus Clarke

169 East Lynne Mrs. Henry Wood

171 The Shadow of Ashlydyat Ditto

172 The Channings Ditto

173 Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles Ditto

175 Roland Yorke Ditto

Illustration from The Sign of Silence

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TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES

Page 6: FREMY standardised to FRÉMY; SURETE standardised to SURETÉ

Page 33: hand-bag standardised to handbag

Page 35: Placé in the phrase "in the Placé Vendôme" as in the original

Page 41: " changed to ' before You—you blackguard, and after You've—you've killed me!

Page 42: note-paper standardised to notepaper

Page 47: anenomes corrected to anemones in the phrase "drooping red anenomes"; manservant standardised to man-servant

Page 126: reopened standardised to re-opened

Page 127: " removed before If so, what then?

Page 148: repass standardised to re-pass

Page 150: over-burdened standardised to overburdened

Page 160: nonplussed standardised to non-plussed in His question non-plussed me.

Page 166: arm-chair standardised to armchair

Page 202: " added after must have happened to her.

Page 210: " changed to ' before You blackguard, Cane and ' added after why, you've killed me!

Page 218: ? after No, don't do that as in the original

Page 240: Bon jour spaced as in the original

Page 244: " added after Here is the reply,

Page 249: . added after non-plussed me for the moment

Page 257: ' corrected to " before My interests!

Page 267: " added after round of France.

Page 269: . added after I asked frantically

Advertising page 9: Author of 108. His Little Girl standardised to Moberly

Advertising page 14: Blank author names as in original

General: variable hyphenation of street-lamp and street lamp as in the original

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