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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 02, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Tom Sawyer, Detective](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqn0gzr2wchv9035xm79pjy3/editions/2026-09-06-html-v1/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20261008%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261008T185149Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=5ae145250f14b188c9d80e9d9c650ba0d6bf9e8a17d19800df2fb91ecaf62d94) ## About this work Spring fever sends Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn down the Mississippi to Arkansas, where a family invitation becomes the beginning of an extraordinary mystery. On the journey, they meet Jake Dunlap, a frightened stranger carrying a dangerous secret: a diamond robbery, suspicious companions, and precious stones that have vanished. Soon after their arrival, a tragedy in the woods sets the countryside whispering. Is the apparition Tom and Huck see truly a ghost? Where are the diamonds? And what has happened to Jubiter Dunlap? As suspicion settles over Uncle Silas, Tom’s appetite for mystery turns into a determined investigation. He studies clues others overlook, follows trails others abandon, and refuses to accept an easy explanation. Told by Huck Finn in Mark Twain’s vivid vernacular, this fast-moving tale combines river adventure, eerie nights, comic ingenuity, and the suspense of a courtroom mystery. This Publica.now Classics edition includes a new typographic cover and publisher opening and closing pages. Sample ## Take a look inside Tom Sawyer, Detective By Mark Twain Contents CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK CHAPTER II. JAKE DUNLAP CHAPTER III. A DIAMOND ROBBERY CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SLEEPERS CHAPTER V. A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT’S VIGIL CHAPTER VIII. TALKING WITH THE GHOST CHAPTER IX. FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP CHAPTER X. THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS CHAPTER XI. TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK \[Note: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts—even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors, and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. — M. T.\] Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom’s uncle Silas’s farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, and there’s something the matter with him, he don’t know what. But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks; and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up on the hill in the edge of the woods,… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Ftom-sawyer-detective) The sample continues in the full work. 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