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Mark Twain is at his irreverent best with this hilarious parody of the 19th-century mystery - two seemingly unrelated narratives are spliced together, the author interjects himself as a character, and Twain even provides literary criticism of himself midway in the text. A Double-Barreled... Read Full Overview

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short... Read Full Overview

A Double Barreled Detective Story is the short story or novelette by the famous American author Mark Twain. Published in 1902, the story is about Sherlock Holmes as he travels through the American West. It is Twains attempt at a mystery novel with his signature satirical whit... Read Full Overview

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fiance Jacob... Read Full Overview

A satirical detective story in which Mark Twain engages with the conventions associated with Sherlock Holmes, as popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle.

In A Double Barreled Detective Story, Twain adapts the familiar elements of late nineteenth-century detective... Read Full Overview

A satirical detective story in which Mark Twain engages with the conventions associated with Sherlock Holmes, as popularised by Arthur Conan Doyle.

In A Double Barreled Detective Story, Twain adapts the familiar elements of late nineteenth-century detective... Read Full Overview

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. It is one of the vintage collections by the Mark Twain.

The 'consulting detective', Sherlock Holmes, has been called to an American town to solve a strange mystery. Only... this time the pen pulling the strings of the World's Greatest Detective is held by literary legend Mark Twain. In a style that could only be presented by Mark... Read Full Overview

Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book... Read Full Overview

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped... Read Full Overview

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a rich young woman is abused, humiliated and abandoned by her... Read Full Overview

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl-a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the girl's widowed father. Jacob... Read Full Overview

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. He... Read Full Overview

Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. His books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been read by school children for generations. His life on the Mississippi River has peeked the imagination of boys... Read Full Overview

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author andhumorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter... Read Full Overview