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Dark Days first published in J.W. Arrowsmith’s Christmas Annual 1884
Published by The Detective Story Club for Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1930
Much Darker Days first published by Longmans, Green & Co. 1884
Introduction © David Brawn 2016
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1930, 2016
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008137748
Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008137755
Version: 2016-08-25
Table of Contents
Chapter III: ‘the Wages of Sin’
Chapter IV: At All Cost, Sleep!
Chapter VII: The Melting of the Snow
Chapter XII: Tempted to Dishonour
Chapter XIV: The Criminal Court
Chapter XVI: ‘Where Are the Snows That Fell Last Year?’
Chapter I: The Curse (Registered)
Chapter II: A Villain’s by-Blow
Chapter III: Mes Gages! Mes Gages!
Chapter VII: Rescue and Retire!