Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain (Illustrated)

By Mark Twain

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781786568090

Mark Twain

Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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The Complete Works of

MARK TWAIN

VOLUME 9 OF 34

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

Version 9

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‘Tom Sawyer, Detective’

Mark Twain: Parts Edition (in 34 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Mark Twain: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 9 of the Delphi Classics edition of Mark Twain in 34 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Tom Sawyer, Detective from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Mark Twain, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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MARK TWAIN

IN 34 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

2, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

3, The Prince and the Pauper

4, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

5, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

6, The American Claimant

7, Tom Sawyer Abroad

8, Pudd’nhead Wilson

9, Tom Sawyer, Detective

10, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

11, A Horse’s Tale

12, The Mysterious Stranger

The Short Stories

13, The Complete Short Stories

14, Mark Twain’s Library of Humor

15, Sketches of the Sixties

The Essays and Satires

16, The Complete  Essays and Satires

The Travel Writing

17, The Innocents Abroad

18, Roughing It

19, A Tramp Abroad

20, Following the Equator

21, Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion

The Non-Fiction

22, Old Times on the Mississippi

23, Life on the Mississippi

24, Christian Science

25, Queen VIctoria’s Jubilee

26, My Platonic Sweetheart

27, Editorial Wild Oats

The Letters

28, The Complete Letters of Mark Twain

The Speeches

29, The Complete Speeches

The Criticism

30, The Criticism

The Biographies

31, Chapters from My Autobiography

32, My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells

33, Mark Twain a Biography by Albert Bigelow Paine

34, The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine

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Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel and the third sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK

CHAPTER II. JAKE DUNLAP

CHAPTER III. A DIAMOND ROBBERY

CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SLEEPERS

CHAPTER V. A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS

CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT’S VIGIL

CHAPTER VIII. TALKING WITH THE GHOST

CHAPTER IX. FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP

CHAPTER X. THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS

CHAPTER XI. TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS

CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK

     [Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they

     are not inventions, but facts — even to the public confession

     of the accused.  I take them from an old-time Swedish

     criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes

     to America.  I have added some details, but only a couple of

     them are important ones. — M. T.]

WELL, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom’s uncle Silas’s farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, and there’s something the matter with him, he don’t know what. But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks; and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up on the hill in the edge of the woods, and sets there and looks away off on the big Mississippi down there a-reaching miles and miles around the points where the timber looks smoky and dim it’s so far off and still, and everything’s so solemn it seems like everybody you’ve loved is dead and gone, and you ‘most wish you was dead and gone too, and done with it all.

Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you’re so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; you want to go wandering far away to strange countries where everything is mysterious and wonderful and romantic. And if you can’t do that, you’ll put up with considerable less; you’ll go anywhere you CAN go, just so as to get away, and be thankful of the chance, too.

Well, me and Tom Sawyer had the spring fever, and had it bad, too; but it warn’t any use to think about Tom trying to get away, because, as he said, his Aunt Polly wouldn’t let him quit school and go traipsing off somers wasting time; so we was pretty blue. We was setting on the front steps one day about sundown talking this way, when out comes his aunt Polly with a letter in her hand and says:

Tom, I reckon you’ve got to pack up and go down to Arkansaw — your aunt Sally wants you.

I ‘most jumped out of my skin for joy. I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. It made me fit to cry to see him act so foolish, with such a noble chance as this opening up. Why, we might lose it if he didn’t speak up and show he was thankful and grateful. But he set there and studied and studied till I was that distressed I didn’t know what to do; then he says, very ca’m, and I could a shot him for it: