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Hewitt, Investigator, by Arthur Morrison
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Title: Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Author: Arthur Morrison
Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11252]
Language: English
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MARTIN HEWITT, INVESTIGATOR.
By Arthur Morrison
1894
CONTENTS.
I. THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES
II. THE LOSS OF SAMMY CROCKETT
III. THE CASE OF MR. FOGGATT
IV. THE CASE OF THE DIXON TORPEDO
V. THE QUINTON JEWEL AFFAIR
VI. THE STANWAY CAMEO MYSTERY
VII. THE AFFAIR OF THE TORTOISE
MARTIN HEWITT, INVESTIGATOR.
I.
THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIES.
Those who retain any memory of the great law cases of fifteen or twenty years back will remember, at least, the title of that extraordinary will case, "Bartley v. Bartley and others," which occupied the Probate Court for some weeks on end, and caused an amount of public interest rarely accorded to any but the cases considered in the other division of the same court. The case itself was noted for the large quantity of remarkable and unusual evidence presented by the plaintiff's side--evidence that took the other p