[Transcriber’s Notes: The Adventures of Dora Bell, Detective was originally serialized in twelve parts in the South Wales Echo on Saturdays, beginning January 6th, 1894. It was reserialized several times over the next few years in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia. Digitized scans of the original newspapers can be found free online at The National Library of Wales Newspapers. This eBook was transcribed from the original serialization in the South Wales Echo except for one sentence which was omitted in the original serialization but reproduced in multiple reserializations. It appears in the ninth story, Miss Rankin's Rival, and is recorded here for clarity: "I rather fancy that he is engaged to Miss Beatrice.">[