Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
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Madeline was the daughter of Lionel Payne, a remarkably skilled detective known and feared by criminals as "Payne, the Expert." Lionel was shot dead while pursuing a case when Madeline was only six months old. Her mother married a selfish scheming man named John Arthur who wanted the small fortune that she had inhereted. When Madeline's mother died, she left her stepfather and swore to get revenge on him for all the pain he had caused her mother. She supported herself taking on a career as a detective.She did get her revenge and had a number of adventures. After gaining her inheritance, she tr...
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- THE GREAT DETECTIVE STORY.
- MADELINE PAYNE,
- THE
- Detective's Daughter. BY
- LAWRENCE L. LYNCH,
- (OF THE SECRET SERVICE.) Author of "Shadowed by Three," "The Diamond Coterie," "Out of a Labyrinth," etc., etc.
- CHICAGO: ALEX. T. LOYD & CO. 1888.
- CONTENTS
- MADELINE PAYNE,
- THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER.
- CHAPTER I. MAN PROPOSES.
- CHAPTER II. THE OLD TREE'S REVELATIONS.
- CHAPTER III. THE STORY OF A CRIME.
- CHAPTER IV. THE DIE IS CAST.
- CHAPTER V. A SHREWD SCHEME.
- CHAPTER VI. A WARNING.
- CHAPTER VII. A STRUGGLE FOR MORE THAN LIFE.
- CHAPTER VIII. THREADS OF THE FABRIC.
- CHAPTER IX. GONE!
- CHAPTER X. BONNIE, BEWITCHING CLAIRE.
- CHAPTER XI. A GLEAM OF LIGHT.
- CHAPTER XII. A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD.
- CHAPTER XIII. MISS ARTHUR'S FRENCH MAID.
- CHAPTER XIV. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS.
- CHAPTER XV. CORA AND THE FRENCH MAID MEASURE SWORDS.
- CHAPTER XVI. FACE TO FACE.
- CHAPTER XVII. GATHERING CLUES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE HAND OF FRIENDSHIP WIELDS THE SURGEON'S KNIFE.
- CHAPTER XIX. A DUAL RENUNCIATION.
- CHAPTER XX. STRUGGLING AGAINST FATE.
- CHAPTER XXI. HAGAR AND CORA.
- CHAPTER XXII. TO BE, TO DO, TO SUFFER.
- CHAPTER XXIII. SETTING SOME SNARES.
- CHAPTER XXIV. A VERITABLE GHOST.
- CHAPTER XXV. SOME DAYS OF WAITING.
- CHAPTER XXVI. NOT A BAD DAY'S WORK.
- CHAPTER XXVII. CLAIRE TURNS CIRCE.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CURTAIN RISES ON THE MIMIC STAGE.
- CHAPTER XXIX. A STARTLING EPISODE.
- CHAPTER XXX. WAITING.
- CHAPTER XXXI. MR. PERCY SHAKES HIMSELF.
- CHAPTER XXXII. A SILKEN BELT.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. CROSS PURPOSES.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. A SLIGHT COMPLICATION.
- CHAPTER XXXV. "THOU SHALT NOT SERVE TWO MASTERS" SET AT NAUGHT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. MR. LORD'S LETTER.
- CHAPTER XXXVII. "I HAVE COME BACK TO MY OWN!"
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. CORA UNDER ORDERS.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. MYSTIFIED PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER XL. DAVLIN'S "POINTS."
- CHAPTER XLI. THE DAYS PASS BY.
- CHAPTER XLII. A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.
- CHAPTER XLIII. THE DOCTOR'S WOOING.
- CHAPTER XLIV. A FRESH COMPLICATION.
- CHAPTER XLV. MRS. RALSTON'S STORY.
- CHAPTER XLVI. CORA "STIRS UP THE ANIMALS."
- CHAPTER XLVII. THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
- CHAPTER XLVIII. THE SWORD OF FATE.
- CHAPTER XLIX. AS THE FOOL DIETH.
- CHAPTER L. "AND THEN COMES REST."
- THE END.
- POPULAR BOOKS.
- ALEX. T. LOYD & CO.,
- 133 LaSalle Street, CHICAGO.
- A NEW DETECTIVE STORY.
- Author of "Shadowed by Three," "Madeline Payne," etc.
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- THE GOLD HUNTERS' ADVENTURES;
- OR, WILD LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. By WM. H. THOMES, author of "The Bushrangers," "The Gold Hunters in Europe," "A Whaleman's Adventures," "Life in the East Indies," "Adventures on a Slaver," "Running the Blockade," etc., etc.
- A FASCINATING STORY OF ADVENTURE.
- A SLAVER'S ADVENTURES
- ON SEA AND LAND.
- Author of "The Gold Hunters' Adventures in Australia," "The Bushrangers," "Running the Blockade," etc., etc.
- ILLUSTRATED WITH FORTY ELEGANT ENGRAVINGS
- SOLD ON ALL RAILWAY TRAINS AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
- A Whaleman's Adventures
- AT SEA, IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND CALIFORNIA.
- Author of "The Gold Hunters' Adventures in Australia," "The Bushrangers," "Running the Blockade," etc., etc.
- Illustrated with Thirty-Six Fine Engravings. SOLD ON ALL RAILWAY TRAINS AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
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