A veteran American detective gathers the cases of his working life, and some told to him by trusted colleagues: organ-grinders, street sharpers, lost strangers, forged letters and family secrets. The stories move through boarding houses, hotels and back streets, written as plain first-person accounts of how each knot was picked apart.
An early American detective casebook, for readers curious about how crime-solving looked before Sherlock Holmes. Download the free EPUB.