Datchet Diamonds

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Crime & Mystery Fiction

Authors: Richard Marsh In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

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Chapter I, Two Men and a Maid
Chapter II, Overheard in the Train
Chapter III, The Diamonds
Chapter IV, Miss Wentworth's Rudeness
Chapter V, In the Bodega
Chapter VI, The Adventures of a Night
Chapter VII, The Datchet Diamonds are Placed in Safe Custody
Chapter VIII, In the Moment of His Success
Chapter IX, A Proposal of Marriage
Chapter X, Cyril's Friend
Chapter XI, John Ireland's Warrant
Chapter XII, A Woman Roused
Chapter XIII, The Detective and the Lady
Chapter XIV, Among Thieves
Chapter XV, Put to the Question
Chapter XVI, A Modern Instance of an Ancient Practice
Chapter XVII, The Most Dangerous Foe of All
Chapter XVIII, The Last of the Datchet Diamonds, Chapter XIX, A Woman's Logic

Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambler planning to leave the country to escape his losses, reads this news item on a train, he overhears, in the next compartment, the actual thief boasting of his accomplishment. Then, when he arrives at his hotel and opens his Gladstone bag, he finds the bag is not his -- and it contains the spoils of the robbery! Will our hero take them directly to the magistrate and tell all he knows? Or will things take another turn, leading to brigands, danger, and possibly romance? - Summary by Jacquerie