Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

The Spiritualists and the Detectives

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 st...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

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 C...

3. Chapter 3

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 M...

4. Chapter 4

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...

5. Chapter 5

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 whi...

6. Chapter 6

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...

7. Chapter 7

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...

8. Chapter 8

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 marrie...

9. Chapter 9

"Our Case."-- Harcout's Egotism and Interference.-- The strange Chain of Evidence.-- A Trail of Spiritualism, Lust, and Licentiousness.-- Superintendent Bangs locates the Detect...

10. Chapter 10

Rochester.-- A Profitable Field for Mrs. Winslow.-- Her sumptuous Apartments.-- The Detectives at Work.-- Mrs. Winslow's Cautiousness.-- Child-Training.-- Mysterious Drives.-- A...

11. Chapter 11

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...

12. Chapter 12

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...

13. Chapter 13

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 To...

14. Chapter 14

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.-- Mothe...

15. Chapter 15

16. Chapter 16

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 I...

17. Chapter 17

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 Adven...

18. Chapter 18

19. Chapter 19

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 v...

20. Chapter 20

A Female Spiritualist's Ideas of Political and Social Economy.-- The Weaknesses of Judges.-- Legal Acumen of the Adventuress.-- An unfriendly Move.-- Harcout attacked.-- Lilly N...

21. Chapter 21

Mrs. Winslow, under the Influence of "Spirits" of an earthly Order, becomes romantic, religious, and poetical.-- A Trance.-- Detective Bristol also proves a Poet.-- A Drama to b...

22. Chapter 22

Mr. Pinkerton decides to favor Mrs. Winslow with a Series of Annoyances.-- The mysterious Package.-- The Detectives labor under well-merited Suspicion.-- "My God! what's that?"-...

23. Chapter 23

Cast down.-- "Trifles."-- A charitable Offering.-- Dreariness.-- Going Crazy.-- An interrupted Seance.-- A new Form of the Devil.-- The Red-herring Expedition and its Result.--...

24. Chapter 24

Breaking up.-- Doubts and Queries.-- Suspected Developments.-- The Detectives completely outwitted.-- On the Trail again.-- From Rochester to St. Louis.-- A prophetic Hotel Cler...

25. Chapter 25

Still foiled.-- Mr. Pinkerton perplexed over the Character of the Adventuress.-- Her wonderful recuperative Powers.-- A lively Chase.-- Another unexpected Move.-- The Detectives...

26. Chapter 26

Shows how Mrs. Winslow makes a new Move.-- Also introduces the famous Evalena Gray, Physical Spiritual Medium, at her sumptuous Apartments on West Twenty-first Street, New York....

27. Chapter 27

After the Seance.-- Daddy, the "Accommodation Husband."-- The two fascinating Swindlers in Council.-- Miss Evalena's European Career.-- How the Millionaire Brewer was baited and...

28. Chapter 28

Mrs. Winslow demonstrates her Legal Ability.-- The "Breach of Promise Trial."-- A grand Rally of the Spiritualistic Friends of the Adventuress.-- The Jury disagree.-- Mrs. Winsl...

29. Chapter 29

Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michigan, over the Centr...

30. Chapter 30

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 C...

31. Chapter 31

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 M...

32. Chapter 32

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...

33. Chapter 33

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 whi...

34. Chapter 34

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...

35. Chapter 35

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...

36. Chapter 36

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 marrie...

37. Chapter 37

"Our Case."-- Harcout's Egotism and Interference.-- The strange Chain of Evidence.-- A Trail of Spiritualism, Lust, and Licentiousness.-- Superintendent Bangs locates the Detect...

38. Chapter 38

Rochester.-- A Profitable Field for Mrs. Winslow.-- Her sumptuous Apartments.-- The Detectives at Work.-- Mrs. Winslow's Cautiousness.-- Child-Training.-- Mysterious Drives.-- A...

39. Chapter 39

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...

40. Chapter 40

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...

41. Chapter 41

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 T...

42. Chapter 42

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.-- Mothe...

43. Chapter 43

Mr. Bangs was in no hurry to leave Sheboygan Falls, as he found that he was in a fruitful field for information, and he continued garnering it in and stacking it away industriou...

44. Chapter 44

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 I...

45. Chapter 45

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 Adven...

46. Chapter 46

It is pleasant to realize that the world moves along just the same, whether the many mild lunatics it carries attempt to interfere with it or not. There are countless men, preci...

47. Chapter 47

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 v...

48. Chapter 48

A Female Spiritualist's Ideas of Political and Social Economy.-- The Weaknesses of Judges.-- Legal Acumen of the Adventuress.-- An unfriendly Move.-- Harcout attacked.-- Lilly N...

49. Chapter 49

When the evening came and Mrs. Winslow came with it, she was observed to be in a high state of nervous and vinous excitement, and at such times she contrived to inaugurate a ser...

50. Chapter 50

Mr. Pinkerton decides to favor Mrs. Winslow with a Series of Annoyances.-- The mysterious Package.-- The Detectives labor under well-merited Suspicion.-- "My God! what's that?"-...

51. Chapter 51

Cast down.-- "Trifles."-- A charitable Offering.-- Dreariness.-- Going Crazy.-- An interrupted Seance.-- A new Form of the Devil.-- The Red-herring Expedition and its Result.--...

52. Chapter 52

Breaking up.-- Doubts and Queries.-- Suspected Developments.-- The Detectives completely outwitted.-- On the Trail again.-- From Rochester to St. Louis.-- A prophetic Hotel Cler...

53. Chapter 53

Still foiled.-- Mr. Pinkerton perplexed over the Character of the Adventuress.-- Her wonderful recuperative Powers.-- A lively Chase.-- Another unexpected Move.-- The Detectives...

54. Chapter 54

Shows how Mrs. Winslow makes a new Move.-- Also introduces the famous Evalena Gray, Physical Spiritual Medium, at her sumptuous Apartments on West Twenty-first Street, New York....

55. Chapter 55

After the Seance.-- Daddy, the "Accommodation Husband."-- The two fascinating Swindlers in Council.-- Miss Evalena's European Career.-- How the Millionaire Brewer was baited and...

56. Chapter 56

Mrs. Winslow demonstrates her Legal Ability.-- The "Breach of Promise Trial."-- A grand Rally of the Spiritualistic Friends of the Adventuress.-- The Jury disagree.-- Mrs. Winsl...