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The Death Shot

by Thomas Mayne REID (1818 - 1883)

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The Death Shot

Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a gun-wound that brought him as near to death as Darke’s bullet did Clancy. It may be asked, Why under such strain was the tale written at all? A good reason could be given; but this, private and personal, need not, and should not be intruded on the public. Suffice it to say, that, dissatisfied with the execution of the work, the author has remodelled—almost rewritten it. It is the same story; but, as he hopes and believes, better told. Great Malvern, September, 1874.

Listen next episodes of The Death Shot:
A Blank Day , A Change of Programme , A Cloud on the Cliffs , A Foiled Ambuscade , A Ghost Going its Rounds , A Horrid Spectacle , A Man Nearly Mad , A Pathless Plain , A Repentant Sinner , A Resurrectionist , A Ruffian Triumphant , A Scheme of Colonisation , A Scouting Party , A Strayed Traveller , A Straying Traveller , A Suspected Servant , A Suspicious Surveillance , A Transformation , A Wild Farewell , Across the Ford , 'Across the Sabine' , Alone With the Dead , An Excursion by Canoe , An Oath to be Kept , An Uncanny Skulker , An Unexpected Visitor , At Length the 'Dead Shot' , 'Brasfort' , Coyote Creek , For the Rendezvous , 'Help! Help!' , Helpless and Hopeless , Hostile Cohorts , Hours of Agony , Is it a Corpse? , Locked In , Massacre Without Mercy , Mestizo and Mulatto , News From Natchez , Opposite Emblems , Planning a Capture , Riding Double , Shadows Behind , 'She is True--Still True!' , Spectral Equestrians , Spectres in the Street , Surrounded and Disarmed , The 'Choctaw Chief' , The Hand of God , The Home of the Hunted Slave , 'The Live-Oak' , The Murderer Unmasked , The Prairie Caravan , The Prairie Stocks , The Scout's Report , The Voice of Vengeance , Tired Travellers , 'To the Jail!' , Waiting the Word , 'Will You be One of Us?'