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Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch is available here as the complete text, split into 1512 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #26482.

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This edition of Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #26482, divided into 40 chapters and 1512 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.

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Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter is presented in 40 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.

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Project Gutenberg eBook #26482, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 1512 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Great: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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