Project Gutenberg 2012-08-12 Public domain in the USA. 231 McCulley, Johnston 1883 1958 Strong, Harrington Black Star's Campaign: A Detective Story Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Black Star's Campaign: A Detective Story" by Johnston McCulley is a novel written in the early 20th century. This story centers around an intricate plot involving the infamous criminal known as the Black Star and Sheriff Kowen, who is determined to apprehend him. The tale unfolds with a backdrop of deception, crime, and a game of cat-and-mouse, as the sheriff deals with the consequences of an earlier raid that unintentionally aided the Black Star's escape from jail. The opening of the novel introduces Sheriff Kowen amidst a brewing crisis when a woman named Miss Blanchard approaches him with concerns about her wayward brother frequenting a gambling house. However, as the conversation progresses, it becomes clear that there is much more to Miss Blanchard than meets the eye, hinting at a potential connection to the Black Star's criminal organization. The narrative quickly escalates when the sheriff mobilizes to raid the gambling den but unwittingly falls into a well-laid trap orchestrated by the Black Star's gang, which ultimately leads to the supercriminal’s daring escape and resurgence, setting the stage for a tense confrontation between law enforcement and the criminal underworld. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 84.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories American fiction -- 20th century PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels 393064 2025-10-16T11:40:09.575374 text/html 374490 2024-10-23T10:09:14 text/html 258297 2025-10-16T11:40:18.412260 application/epub+zip 263850 2025-10-16T11:40:13.259286 application/epub+zip 204027 2025-10-16T11:40:11.698362 application/epub+zip 499908 2025-10-16T11:40:22.351263 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 471516 2025-10-16T11:40:17.525231 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 373809 2022-09-18T14:04:13.055321 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369217 2025-10-16T11:40:08.555272 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 349187 2024-10-23T10:09:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16512 2025-10-16T11:40:23.241201 application/rdf+xml 17355 2025-10-16T11:40:12.455351 image/jpeg 3922 2025-10-16T11:40:12.200324 image/jpeg 251258 2025-10-16T11:40:09.608374 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia