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Tom Sawyer, Detective
1896 novel by Mark Twain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the film adaptation, see Tom Sawyer, Detective (film).
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.
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![]() Harper's Magazine poster by Edward Penfield for the debut of Tom Sawyer, Detective (August 1896) | |
Author | Mark Twain |
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Illustrator | A.B. Frost[1] |
Language | English |
Series | Tom Sawyer |
Genre | Detective fiction |
Publisher | Harper Brothers |
Publication date | 1896 |
Publication place | United States |
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Preceded by | Tom Sawyer Abroad |
Text | Tom Sawyer, Detective at Wikisource |
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