Dominicus Pike unintentionally thwarts the title miser's hanging by a robber.
In a story by this author, a toll keeper outside the town of Kimballton describes the title character as "more like a ghost or an old mummy than good flesh and blood." In one story, this author responded to accusations of plagiarizing Dumas by including a footnote that accused Dumas himself of frequently plagiarizing little-known authors. In that story by this author, a character hurriedly devises a scheme to supply the East Indies with ice by harnessing whales to icebergs. At the conclusion of a story by this author, the gossiping tobacco dealer (*) Dominicus Pike unintentionally thwarts the title miser's hanging by a robber. In another story by this author, the central location contains a portrait of the title character's childhood love Sylvia Ward, as well as a cut-glass vase which is accidentally smashed as three temporarily rejuvenated bachelors tussle with the Widow Wycherly. For 10 points, name this early American author of "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment."
In a story by this author, a toll keeper outside the town of Kimballton describes the title character as "more like a ghost or an old mummy than good flesh and blood."
Nathaniel Hawthorne