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_aLeinster, Murray, _d1896-1975 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe hand of God |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from the July 25, 1930 issue of Short Stories magazine. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-03-02 | ||
| 508 | _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) | ||
| 520 | _aThe hand of God by Murray Leinster is a crime-mystery short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a small-town sheriff confronting a lynch mob while sifting clues to uncover the true killer, probing the tension between mob justice, lawful procedure, and what people call “the hand of God.” On a sweltering night, a mob gathers to hang Sam Blake for shooting Kittinger outside a country store, where “open-and-shut” evidence seems to damn him: he’s found unconscious in a nearby blacksmith shop with a recently fired rifle and a clear motive. Determined to uphold the law, the sheriff stalls the crowd and notices a crucial inconsistency—there are two spent shells tied to a single heard shot. Inviting only two men inside, he catches Pete Brown, Kittinger’s nephew, in a lie about seeing the victim from a blocked vantage point, proving Pete watched from the actual murder site and had framed the drunken Sam earlier by firing Sam’s gun and planting him. After a brief struggle the sheriff arrests Pete, faces down the mob by laying out the facts, and disperses it, with the supposed “hand of God” revealed as a small human oversight exposed by stubborn, level-headed policing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aWestern stories | ||
| 653 | _aMurder -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aSheriffs -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from the July 25, 1930 issue of Short Stories magazine. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/SHST_1930_07_25.pdf | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78088 |
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