Hunted Down
By Charles Dickens.
This detective stories of Charles Dickens, written about 30 years before Arthur Conan Doyle. “The main character is a smart and attentive man named Sampson. One day he sees a strange Mr. Julius Silton in his office. Sampson begins to suspect that this man is hiding something necessary from other people. This Mr. Silton appears in the life of the main character more often. Sampson understands that a crime is occurring and it must be stopped. Sampson turns into a real hunter of criminals” (Amazon).
NY. Harrow and Heston Classic reprint. (1859) 99 pages.