Produced by Harry Lamé, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES | | | | * The original work contains some text in italics and in bold- | | face. These are represented here as _text_ and =text=, respec- | | tively. Small capitals in the original work have been changed | | to capitals for this e-text. | | * The oe-ligature from the original work has been transcribed as | | [oe], as in man[oe]uvre. | | * Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have only been | | corrected where one variant was clearly used more often than | | the other (aint was changed to ain't, etc.). 'Warburton place' | | has been changed to 'Warburton Place.' Note that both 'Joe | | Blakesly' and 'Joe Blakesley' occur in the text. | | * Minor typographical errors have been corrected silently. More | | important changes made to the text: | | - page 90: 'Mrs. Follinsbee' changed to 'Mrs. Follingsbee'; | | - page 173: 'Lerchen' changed to 'Leschen'; | | - page 194: 'And won't do' changed to 'And it won't do'; | | - page 220: CHAPTER XX changed to CHAPTER XXX; CHAPTER LXVI | | and CHAPTER LXVIII changed to CHAPTER XLVI and XLVIII, | | respectively; | | - page 449: Beal changed to Beale. | | * Some pages had poorly printed parts; here a 'best guess' has | | been used to complete the text (page 159, some parts of the | | advertisements at the end of the book). | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: "Not just yet; I ain't quite ready!"--page 410.] THE GREAT DETECTIVE SERIES. DANGEROUS GROUND; OR, THE RIVAL DETECTIVES. BY LAWRENCE L. LYNCH, (OF THE SECRET SERVICE.) Author of "Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter;" "Out of a Labyrinth;" "Shadowed by Three;" "The Diamond Coterie," etc., etc. CHICAGO: ALEX. T. LOYD & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1886.