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Mystery

Detective Stories

Joseph Lewis French

Garden City New York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1922. Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation Into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Printed in the United States at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y.

The Editor desires especially to acknowledge assistance in granting the use of original material, and for helpful advice and suggestion, to Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, to Mrs. Anna Katherine Green Rohlfs, to Cleveland Moffett, to Arthur Reeve, creator of "Craig Kennedy," to Wilbur Daniel Steele, to Ralph Adams Cram, to Chester Bailey Fernald, to Brian Brown, to Mrs. Lillian M. Robins of the publisher's office, and to Charles E. Farrington of the Brooklyn Public