Chapter 20

THE TERM“Detective Story”covers a multitude of sins. The plot is apt to be weird, the evidence does not fit the crime, the detective is altogether too clever. InA Master HandThe Story of a CrimeBy RICHARD DALLASthe story is reasonable. The author is a former District Attorney of a large city, who is naturally familiar with the ways of the criminal. While the plot is peculiarly interesting and complex there is nothing artificial about it.“All the elements of a good detective story and more.”—N. Y. Times.“There is a surprise which is absolutely new in the annals of detective stories.”—Commercial Advertiser.“It is sane and there is no marvellous (andimpossible) acumen displayed in ferreting out the criminal.”—Nashville American.12mo. With frontispiece. Net, $1.00. Postage 10c.New York—G. P. Putnam’s Sons—London

THE TERM

“Detective Story”

covers a multitude of sins. The plot is apt to be weird, the evidence does not fit the crime, the detective is altogether too clever. In

A Master Hand

The Story of a Crime

By RICHARD DALLAS

the story is reasonable. The author is a former District Attorney of a large city, who is naturally familiar with the ways of the criminal. While the plot is peculiarly interesting and complex there is nothing artificial about it.

“All the elements of a good detective story and more.”—N. Y. Times.

“There is a surprise which is absolutely new in the annals of detective stories.”—Commercial Advertiser.

“It is sane and there is no marvellous (andimpossible) acumen displayed in ferreting out the criminal.”—Nashville American.

12mo. With frontispiece. Net, $1.00. Postage 10c.

New York—G. P. Putnam’s Sons—London


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