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Tom Sawyer, Detective

1896 novel by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer, Detective

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Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novella by Mark Twain and a sequel to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884–1885). Published after Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), it is the fourth completed work featuring Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. 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. It was first published in the August and September 1896 issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, illustrated by A. B. Frost, and first appeared in book form that November in the Harper & Brothers collection Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories.

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