Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Crime & Mystery Fiction, Short Stories, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Fergus Hume In Year : 1899

Book Language: English

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The Coming of Hagar
The First Customer and the Florentine Dante
The Second Customer and the Amber Beads
The Third Customer and the Jade Idol
The Fourth Customer and the Crucifix
The Fifth Customer and the Copper Key
The Sixth Customer and the Silver Teapot
The Seventh Customer and the Mandarin
The Eighth Customer and the Pair of Boots
The Ninth Customer and the Casket
The Tenth Customer and the Persian Ring
The Passing of Hagar

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her counter, Hagar uncovers one mystery after another. Some items are linked to actual crimes, others to iniquitous acts of human deceit and betrayal. Whether investigating independently or alongside the police, Hagar combines her native shrewdness with woman's intuition to help untangle the webs of wickedness she encounters, that justice might prevail in the end. Though the individual mysteries in Hagar of the Pawn-shop may be read separately, they are so arranged by Fergus Hume as to form a linked set, with characters from earlier stories popping up again later on, one as Hagar's love interest and another as her nemesis. - Summary by Grant Hurlock