"How I did it," ([c1922])

Record Details:

Title:
"How I did it,"
Date:
[c1922]
Publisher:
Los Angeles, Calif. : The Whittingham press
Volume:
"How I did it,"
Leaf #:
00055
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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"Hoic I Did It write a story wherein the hero would dream that he had killed a man who was a total stranger to him. Then, the next morning, the hero would read in the newspaper that a man had heen murdered in exactly the same man- ner the night before. The police would be baffled. The hero would go to the police and confess that he was the guilty man. No, that wouldn't do. That would be stretching fiction too far. So I continued building and tearing down, until finally a few days later, I had constructed the following story: An eminent surgeon returned home after several weeks sojourn a few hundred miles away. He retired. He dreamed that he had burglars about, he put on his dressing-gown killed his worst enemy, and awakened in the most troubled frame of mind. A dog bark- ing in another part of the house aroused him from his nightmare, and believing there were and went downstairs. He took a revolver from the drawer of a table in the hall and started searching the rooms. As he entered the library he stumbled and the gun was dis- 28