Tom Sawyer, Detective

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 388 words | Copyright

Tom Sawyer, Detective, story by Clemens, published in 1896 under his pseudonym Mark Twain.

As a final sequel to previous adventures, Huck Finn tells of the remarkable way in which Tom Sawyer solves an intricate mystery involving a diamond robbery and a false accusation of murder made against his Uncle Silas, as well as a case of mistaken identity between a real and a supposed corpse.

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