The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

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The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

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1892

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The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales

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er Carlisle assizes, some six weeks later. It was proved that he was the most desperate rogue in the North of England, for he had done three murders at the least, and there were charges enough against him upon the sheet to have hanged him ten times over.

Well now, I could not pass over my boyhood without telling you about this, which was the most important thing that happened to me. But I will go off upon no more side tracks; for when I think of all that is coming, I can see very well that I shall have more than enough to do before I have finished. For when a man has only his own little private tale to tell, it often takes him all his time; but when he gets mixed up in such great matters as I shall have to speak about, then it is hard on him, if he has not been brought up to it, to get it all set down to his liking. But my memory is as good as ever, thank God, and I shall try to get it all straight before I finish.

It was this business of the burglar that first made a friendship between Jim Horscrof

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It's a pleasant surprise to learn that Doyle wrote much more than Holmes and Prof Challenger. Quite well worth reading.
Not too bad a little action/romance in (yes) Napoleonic times, a Brigadier Gerard farce, and a nautical escapade.