From the Jaws of Death single work   short story   detective  
Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 From the Jaws of Death
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English detective story. A commercial traveller for a London firm of jewellers is believed to have absconded but doubts are raised because of his own savings and the small fortune of his fiancee who has been abandoned ... A coincidental encounter with a counterfeiter several months later leads the detective to the missing man - and the exposure of a jealous rival. Detailed 'realist' narrative; stiff. (PB)

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