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ALLAN PINKERTON'S
DETECTIVE STORIES.

Vol. V.

The Spiritualists and Detectives.

ALLAN PINKERTON'S
GREAT DETECTIVE BOOKS.

1.MOLLIE MAGUIRES AND DETECTIVES.
2.STRIKERS, COMMUNISTS, AND DETECTIVES.
3.CRIMINAL REMINISCENCES AND DETECTIVES.
4.THE MODEL TOWN AND DETECTIVES.
5.SPIRITUALISTS AND DETECTIVES.
6.EXPRESSMAN AND DETECTIVES.
7.THE SOMNAMBULIST AND DETECTIVES.
8.CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE.
9.MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND DETECTIVES.
10.GYPSIES AND DETECTIVES.
11.BUCHOLZ AND DETECTIVES.
12.THE RAILROAD FORGER AND DETECTIVES.
13.BANK ROBBERS AND DETECTIVES.
14.BURGLAR'S FATE AND DETECTIVES.
15.A DOUBLE LIFE AND DETECTIVES.

These wonderful Detective Stories by Allan Pinkerton are having an unprecedented success. Their sale far exceeding one hundred thousand copies. "The interest which the reader feels from the outset is intense and resistless; he is swept along by the narrative, held by it, whether he will or no."

All beautifully illustrated, and published uniform with this volume. Price $1.50 each. Sold by all booksellers, and sent free by mail, on receipt of price, by

G. W. CARLETON & CO., Publishers,
New York.

THE
SPIRITUALISTS
AND
THE DETECTIVES.

BY
ALLAN PINKERTON,
AUTHOR OF
"THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE," "CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS
A DETECTIVE," "THE SOMNAMBULIST AND THE DETECTIVE,"
"THE MODEL TOWN AND THE DETECTIVES," ETC.

NEW YORK:
G. W. Dillingham, Publisher,
Successor to G. W. Carleton & Co.
LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.
MDCCCLXXXIX.

Copyrighted, 1876, by
ALLAN PINKERTON

Trow's
Printing and Bookbinding Co.,
PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS,
205-213 East 12th St.,
NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

• CHAPTER I.
  "Kal'm'zoo!"The Home of the Nettletons.Lilly Nettleton.A wild Heart and a burning Brain.
• CHAPTER II.
  The "Circuit-Rider."Mr. Pinkerton and these Gospel Knights-Errant in the early Days.The Rev. Mr. Bland appears."And Satan came also!"A "charge" is established.A Compact "where the golden maple-leaves fall."Bland departs."The scared form of a young Woman steals away from her Home!"
• CHAPTER III.
  Lilly in Detroit.First and last Remorse.The reverend Villain and his Victim enjoy the Hospitality of the Michigan Exchange Hotel.A Scene."Bland, am I to go to your Mother's, as you promised?"The Clergyman(?) "crazed."Everything, save Respectability.A Woman's Will.And a Man's Cajolement.
• CHAPTER IV.
  Tells how the Rev. Mr. Bland preached a Funeral Sermon.Shows a dainty Cottage, holding more than the Neighbors knew.Installs Lilly as a Clergyman's Mistress.Reverts to a Desolate Home.Introduces Dick Hosford, a returned "Forty-Niner," who begins a despairing Search.And shows that unholy, as well as true Love, does not always run smoothly.
• CHAPTER V.
  Reckless Fancies.The "Cursed Church Interests."Bland's "little Bird" becomes a busy Bird.Merges into a great Raven of the Night.Gathers together Valuables.And while a folded Handkerchief lies across the Clergyman's Face, steals away into the Storm and the Night.Gone!"Are ye all dead in there?"Drifting together."Don't give the Gal that Ticket!"A great-hearted Man.The Rev. Bland officiates at a Wedding.Competence and Contentment.
• CHAPTER VI.
  Mr. Pinkerton is called upon.Mr. Harcout, a ministerial-looking Man, with an After-dinner Voice, appears.A Case with a Woman in it, as is usually the case.Mr. Pinkerton hesitates.An anxious Millionaire.
• CHAPTER VII.
  In Council.Mr. Lyon the Millionaire, with Mr. Harcout the Adventurer and Adviser, appear together.How Mr. Lyon became Mrs. Winslow's Victim."Our blessed Faith" and the Woman's strange Power.A Tender Subject.Deep Games.A One Hundred Thousand Dollar Suit for Breach of Promise of Marriage.A good deal of Money.All liable to err.A most magnificent Woman.The "Case" taken.
• CHAPTER VIII.
  The Case begun.Mr. Pinkerton makes a preliminary Investigation at Rochester.Mrs. Winslow, Trance Medium.A Ride to Port Charlotte.Harcout as a Barnacle.Much married.Mr. Pinkerton visits the Mediums.Drops in at a Washington Hall Meeting.Sees the naughty Woman.And returns to New York convinced that the Spiritualistic Adventuress is a Woman of remarkable Ability.
• CHAPTER IX.
  "Our Case."Harcout's Egotism and Interference.The strange Chain of Evidence.A Trail of Spiritualism, Lust, and Licentiousness. Superintendent Bangs locates the Detectives.A pernicious System.Three Old Maids named Grim.Mr. Bangs baffled by Mr. Lyon, who won't be "worried."One Honest Spiritualistic Doctor.The Trail secured.A Tigress.Mr. Bangs "goes West."
• CHAPTER X.
  Rochester.A Profitable Field for Mrs. Winslow.Her sumptuous Apartments.The Detectives at Work.Mrs. Winslow's Cautiousness. Child-Training.Mysterious Drives.A dapper little Blond Gentleman.Two Birds with one Stone.A French Divinity.Le Compte.
• CHAPTER XI.
  The Half-way House.A jolly German Landlord.Detective Fox runs down Le Compte.A "Positive, Prophetic, Healing and Trance Medium."Harcout the Adviser reappears, and is anxious lest Mr. Lyon be drawn into some terrible Confession.Mr. Pinkerton decides to know more about Le Compte.And with the harassed Mr. Lyon interviews him.Treachery and Blackmail."A much untractable Man."Light shines upon Mrs. Winslow.Another Man.Mr. Pinkerton mad.
• CHAPTER XII.
  The Raven of the Detroit Cottage in another Character.Mrs. Winslow yearns for a retired Montreal Banker.Love's Rivalry.A mysterious Note.The Response.Another Trip to Port Charlotte by four Hearts that beat as one.What Mr. Pinkerton, as one of the party, sees and hears."Jones of Rochester."Le Compte and Mrs. Winslow resolve to fly to Paris, "the magnificent, the beautiful, the sublime!""My God, are they all that way?"
• CHAPTER XIII.
  Mr. Pinkerton again interviews Le Compte.And very much desires to wring his Neck.A Bargain and Sale.Le Compte's Story"Little by Little, Patience by Patience."A Toronto Merchant in Mrs. Winslow's Toils.Detective Bristol, "the retired Banker," in Clover.Tabitha, Amanda, and Hannah individually and collectively woo him.Ancient Maidens full of Soul.A Signal.
• CHAPTER XIV.
  Mr. Bangs on the Trail in the West.Terre Haute and its Spiritualists.Mrs. Deck's Boarding-house.The Nettleton Family broken up.Back at the Michigan Exchange.Mother Blake's Recital.Through Chicago to Wisconsin.A disheartening Story.The practical result of Spiritualism.
• CHAPTER XV.
  A Chicago Divorce "Shyster."Hosford found.His pathetic Narrative.More Facts.
• CHAPTER XVI.
  Mrs. Winslow's Signal answered.She endeavors to win Bristol, and shows that they are "Affinities."Detective Fox mystified.An Evening with the One fair Woman.Closer Intimacies.A Journey proposed.Detective Bristol as a Lover.
• CHAPTER XVII.
  Careful Work.Bristol's Trick on the Bell-boy at Queen's Hotel, Toronto.The old Merchant.In the Toils.A Face at the Transom.A cowardly Puppet before a brazen Adventuress.The Horrors of Blackmail."Furnished Rooms to Rent."
• CHAPTER XVIII.
  Harcout again."Things going slow."A Bit of personal History.A new Tenant.Detective Generalship.Mrs. Winslow fears she is watched.Mr. Pinkerton cogitates.
• CHAPTER XIX.
  Mrs. Winslow becomes confidential.Some of her Exploits.Her Plans.A Sample of Legal Pleading.A fishy Story.The Adventuress as a Somnambulist.Detective Bristol virtuously indignant.Failing to win the "Retired Banker," Mrs. Winslow assails Detective Fox with her Charms.

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