Judith Lee is unique among early fictional investigators. Shes not a detective at all, but rather an eavesdropper, busybody, and do-gooder with a secret super-power: she can read lips in several languages. Miss Lee is a renowned expert in teaching the deaf and dumb. Shes discovered that people are amazingly ready to discuss intimate matters in public places. A great frequenter of restaurants, cafés, and teashops, shes prone to perceive whispered conversations. Now and then they touch on crime, leading to some astonishing adventures.
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==========Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of English author Richard Bernard Heldmann. One of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods, he is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle, which for a time outsold Bram Stokers Dracula. Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humor.
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This book, first published in 1912, is in the public domain worldwide.
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