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The Mystery of Black Jean
Julian Kilman · 1923
A French-Canadian drifter, two bears, a schoolteacher with black eyes and a limekiln at Split Hill turn rural memory into a compact Weird Tales mystery.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 21 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Split Hill Mystery Road
Morgan's CoveThe windmill work that calls for quicklime.
Split Hill Witnesses
Julian Kilman's Publishing World
The Road to Split Hill
The Boy Narrator — Profile
The Hotel PumpBlack Jean wrestles the muzzled bear beneath the tree by the worn-out pump.
The Schoolroom RulerThe teacher's small figure reveals a cruelty the boy never forgets.
This edition
- Title
- The Mystery of Black Jean
- Author
- Julian Kilman
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 45 original artworks · 21 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 3,835 words
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #68957
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