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Arthur Stringer's "The man who couldn't sleep" series (1908-1919)
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We look forward to reading Thomas B Vincent's Arthur Stringer : A Bibliography of the Fiction (2005). We will certainly adjust the information below, should we be corrected. Until that time, this is how we have worked out the order of appearance of the stories, and their name changes.
First appearances are marked with a |
Everybody′s magazine |
Adventures of the insomniac |
The unique experiences of an insomniac |
The man who couldn't sleep |
"The guarded house" (1908-aug)
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Canadian Writers Limited syndication (1913-jan, onward) |
Washington Herald [McClure′s Syndicate] (1913-dec, onward) |
Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1919) |
CH. | |||
"The stolen code" |
"The stolen code" (1913-dec-14) |
01 "Running out of pay-dirt"
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The adventures of Witter Kerfoot, insomniac |
"The mask of fame" |
"The mask of fame" (1913-dec-21) |
02 "The ox-blood vase" |
Hampton′s magazine (1910-aug to 1912-mar) |
"The woman in the case" |
"A sense of drama" (1913-dec-28) |
03 "The stolen wheel-code" |
"The guarded house" |
"The dish and the spoon" (1914-jan-04) |
04 "The open door" | |
"The stolen code" (1910-jul)
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"A sense of drama" |
"One night of rain" (1914-jan-11)
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05 "The man from Medicine Hat" |
"The mask of fame" (1910-sep)
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06 "The irreproachable butler" | |
"A sense of drama" (1910-nov)
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nine stories promised by syndicate; halted at five by an unknown action |
07 "The Panama gold chests" | |
"The dish and the spoon" (1911-mar)
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08 "The dummy-chucker" | ||
"The woman in the case" (1911-aug)
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09 "A Rialto rain-storm" * | ||
"The stool pigeon" (1911-oct)
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10 "The thumb-tap cue" | ||
"The cleverest woman in the world" (1912-jan)
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11 "The Nile-green roadster"
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"A matter of thumbs" (1912-mar)
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* Mundell & Rausch (1974) call this ″A Rialto rainbow″, but I think that′s simply a mistake. Rainbows do not appear in the stories. | |||
[ceased publication] |