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The Death Shot

by Thomas Mayne REID (1818 - 1883)

Two Sorts of Slave-Owners

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.

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Listen next episodes of The Death Shot:
A Blank Day , A Bullet Extracted , A Change of Programme , A Cloud on the Cliffs , A Coon-Chase Interrupted , A Flat Refusal , A Foiled Ambuscade , A Forest Post-Office , A Ghost Going its Rounds , A Horrid Spectacle , A Man Nearly Mad , A Moonlight Moving , A Pathless Plain , A Photograph in the Forest , 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' , Additional Evidence , Alone With the Dead , An Assassin in Retreat , An Excursion by Canoe , An Oath to be Kept , An Uncanny Skulker , An Unceremonious Search , 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 , Murder Without Remorse , News From Natchez , Opposite Emblems , Planning a Capture , Riding Double , Saved by a Sister , Seized by Spectral Arms , Shadows Behind , 'She is True--Still True!' , Spectral Equestrians , Spectres in the Street , Surrounded and Disarmed , Tell-Tale Tracks , The Belle of 'Natchez' , The 'Choctaw Chief' , The Coon-Hunter at Home , The Coon-Hunter Cautious , The Coon-Hunter Conscience Striken , The Eve of Departure , 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 Sleep of the Assassin , The Voice of Vengeance , The Wrong Man , Tired Travellers , 'To the Jail!' , 'To the Sheriff' , Two Good Girls , Under the Trysting Tree , Up and Down , Waiting the Word , What Has Become of Clancy? , Why Comes He Not? , 'Will You be One of Us?'