FREEA Double Barrelled Detective Story
"A Double Barrelled Detective Story" by Mark Twain is a satirical novelette that places Sherlock Holmes in the American West. The story weaves two revenge plots: a woman trains her son, who possesses an extraordinary bloodhound-like sense of smell, to destroy his abusive father's reputation. Years later, when a murder occurs at a California mining camp, Holmes arrives to solve the case using his famous logical methods—only to be spectacularly proven wrong by the son's supernatural abilities. Twain playfully mocks detective fiction while breaking the fourth wall to address readers directly. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Automated conservative edition review 2026-10-20T08:23:30.518Z (historical-original-en-v2), Philippines scope. English historical author Twain, Mark, died 1910; original-language author allowlist, matching sole EPUB/catalog creator, no credited contributors, no extra artwork, no flagged editorial/translation/copyright cues in isolated text. US public-domain source label and retained Gutenberg license; EPUB CRC passed. This is rule-based screening, not a worldwide rights opinion or a claim of manual review. Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3180; Philippine term reference https://www.ipophil.gov.ph/copyright/. EPUB SHA256 715a2db604d2bc0846c71b761cc1733438f6921a5dff1b2f20ed285f91ef6546; RDF SHA256 bbeb5d8c8ac4c7bd5dee8648184a6b7c1ad1c516e8e48f3b53748850ce5121a7.
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