David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales PDF Download

Author: Julian Hawthorne
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Book Description
Among the records of the English state trials are to be found many strange stories; which would; as the phrase is; make the fortune of a modern novelist. But there are also numerous cases; not less stimulating to imagination and curiosity; which never attained more than local notoriety; of which the law was able to take but comparatively small cognizance; although they became subjects of much unofficial discussion and mystification. Among these cases none; perhaps; is better worth recalling than that of David Poindexter. It will be my aim here to tell the tale as simply and briefly as possible—to repeat it; indeed; very much as it came to my ears while living; several years ago; near the scene in which its events took place. There is a temptation to amplify it; and to give it a more recent date and a different setting; but (other considerations aside) the story might lose in force and weight more than it would thereby gain in artistic balance and smoothness.