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100 1 _aMatull, Kurt,
_d1872-1920
245 1 0 _aLord Lister No. 0338: De brand in de chemische fabriek
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-23
508 _aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Lord Lister No. 0338: De brand in de chemische fabriek" by Kurt Matull et al. is a detective novella written in the early 20th century. Set in London’s industrial world, it centers on Lord Lister (the gentleman rogue known as Raffles) as a deadly factory fire, a missing explosive formula, and a brewing office feud entangle chemist Jack Helford, his employer Thomas Macdara, and clerk Fred Heywood. When Helford is accused of murder and arson, Lister and his companion Charly Brand step in to uncover the truth behind the blaze and the coveted “Palmerit” explosive. The opening of the story sketches mounting tension between factory partners Macdara and Palmer, highlights Palmer’s secret work on a powerful new explosive, and shows office gossip around the young chemist Helford and his sister. A sudden night fire destroys the factory; Palmer’s charred body is found; suspicion swings toward arson and then toward Helford after his quarrel with Palmer and rumors about Palmer’s advances to two women close to him. Heywood then secretly confronts Macdara, revealing he witnessed Macdara stab Palmer, steal papers (the explosive’s formula), and set the fire, and he blackmails him with a found cufflink and a forged note. Macdara pays a down payment and hires an East End killer to silence Heywood—but the “killer” is actually Lord Lister in disguise, who resolves with Charly to investigate and clear Helford. The section closes as Lister moves to question Heywood, just as the clerk heads out for the evening with a lady on his arm. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cAmsterdam: Roman- Boek- en Kunsthandel, 1910
653 _aDetective and mystery stories -- Periodicals
653 _aDime novels -- Periodicals
700 1 _aBlankensee, Theo von,
_d1881-1928
700 1 _aHageman, Felix
_q(Leonard Felix),
_d1877-1966
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78531
999 _c119249
_d119249