"A Double Barrelled Detective Story" by Mark Twain is a tale set in the late 1800s that weaves together love, revenge, and mystery through a complicated family drama. In Virginia, a man named Jacob Fuller has serious marriage problems with his young, beautiful wife, leading to her betrayal and public shame as part of his scheme for revenge against her father. Their son, Archy, grows up with a special talent similar to a bloodhound, and as he gets older, he finds himself caught up in his mother's hidden past, pushing him on a quest for revenge connected to his father's wrongdoings, creating a tense and engaging detective story.
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
By Mark Twain
Fueled by betrayal and a thirst for justice, a son with extraordinary tracking abilities finds himself on a collision course with his father's dark secrets.
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About the AuthorSamuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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