A master hand is part of the Mystery Collections catalogue. The record identifies Dallas, Richard, 1860-1924 as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 51,319 words, corresponding to an estimated 224 minutes of reading, and is divided into 5 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 24.5 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.090. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Murder -- Fiction. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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