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INVESTIGATORS.

Mr. Laurence Mack writes in Ted Casseilla. Werkty

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VISITORS AT HOTELS

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Me H... Anderson Mrs. Leigh

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Me La R. Anderssit Mir K. Kelili Me R. Ja

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re Mr W... Boayme Mr M, Gahas Brash

& Mrs It. Bigass

The king of intellectuals in the world of detective notion is Edgar Allan Poe's In The Park ined Auguste Dupin. Letter (where the valuable document is left so openly revealed that no un thinks of looking at it), in "The Gold Bug whore Dupin elucidates an impos- sible Cryptogram, in The Murders in Me H.Cholerton the Rue Morge, where he proves that Mrs 15. R. Dav no hungu hand eintld have killed Madame | Mrs P, M, DANIS

D'Espanates and trust

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Ale R. C. Burdin

Me Jasin L

Mrs E. Liddell

Mr A. E

Martir Mr. Mason Ltd. Maadidci. Mes live M. May Miss Mainehurst Mr. C. E. Modich je

Mrs R. Mchel

Me H. Montag Mr B.S

Br. d. Morrison

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Me d. L. Listras

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', II, thale

Alr R. Eli Mr & Mr

r&E till

Me A. J. M. Gimmes MeV. Urat Mrs J. Gosal Mr & AirS, Gray

body up the chimney, Dupin makes out the amazing truth about the our outang by a series of logical deductiogs. Dopin was a master of mental analysis ; | Mr Gurlin he had a vivid freshness of imagination, and always thought best in the dark.

Inspector Bucket in Blenk House" is one of Dickens's notable successes, The inspector is a big man, genial and obvious looking, but with an exception ally keen eye and an iron détermination, | Mis Bucket is a bit of a humorist, and the joks is always on his side. He suspected Lady Dedlock—yes, but not of the mur der of that impiacáhle old lawyer, Tal- kinghorn.

är Paul Harmann Capt. T. 17

Flarry Mr John Seatt

Hurston

Mir 1. HamerHUN Mr. Japan Hecke Mr Honden

Mr H. M. Howell Alise 1. Hull

The person to be apprehended is now J. D. Humphreys, in this houses," he says to Sir Leicester d. L. Hinter Dedlock. Enter Milady's maid, Mademoi- | Afr W. Jolin selle Hortense. Mademoiselle is high! | Me 2, 6, dosta händed, insolent. Her protestation avail Mr & Mrs Kiecklarfer,

Mr & MS. H. not,

Langsten

**Two things are capccially observ able ns. Mr. Bucket proceeds to a con- Mr A. Lapierre clusion. First, that he seems imper-fapt, de Larkaguy ceptibly to establish a dreadful right of Mr & Mrs ('. Lauritsen

property in Mademoiselle. Secondly, My J. Gordon Fash

but the very atmosphere she breathes seems to narrow, and „contruct about ber, us if a clusetnet or "a pall were being drawn nearer and yet nearer around her breathless 'figure?

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M-KIT. Nie-sto

Mrs Oliver

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H. Rome

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Mr. S. Schrehter

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Rogue Bar Hom

Me J. H. Baekučno Mr. G. Baird

Who so good-ht crime in Action as Dickens's great contemporary, Wilkie e Mr M. Bayer

Mr A. A. Ballinger Collins Sergeant Cuff in "The Moon-rr Hitzer stone" lacks Bucket's external genial-ir Brostelt

ty. Just take a look at him as he arrives Mrs H. Davenport at Lady Yerinder's place in the country

Browne

to ferret out who stole the fateful dia- Mr & Mrs Chubb mead, the Moonstone, with its drend nud | Miss Douglasi hod-stained history:

Misa Gear

"He was dressed all in devent black. Mr is H, Geare with a white cravat round his neck. Mr & Mrs (E His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and

Grossman the skin of it was yellow and dry and withered as an autuma leaf. His crea were of a light, steely grey: his walk was seft:This long, lanky Engers were | Mr W. Armstrong, hooked like claws."

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It is à Comforting thing about the grim Cuff that rosh-growing was a genuine hobby of his.

personage

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Miss & B. Bailey Mr R.K. Harnett Capt. G. Barrett Dr. & Mry N. Becartz Mr V. Benjauim Capt. R. 11, Ben.

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"The "Leavenworth Case," of Aana Katharine Green, has for two generations past had a great vogue in Americh and in England. It tells of the murder of wealthy old man, and the narrative throws the burden of guilt upon two beautiful young women. The redeeming ngent in the gloomy problem is the detective, Ebenezer Gryce, a portly, comfortable with an eve that never rest. cil on the individual hefer it, but on T.. Bretar some insignificant ohjeet like an inkstand. | Miss C F a book, or a button.

Mr

H. R. Clelant No need to describe the clauracteristics Jr J. R. Collis

One sees him is 3. Cotton of Sherlock Flolmes,

1. H. Cortnack ways there in Baker Street, long and 3 (). W. Darch Tean, seated in his dressing-gown över n pipe of shag, turning over again in his Lt. Col. B. A. Dollin mind such difficult eases as those of Mr & Mrs J. Dimcau Sudy in Scarlet, The Five Orange W. & De Tips and The Hound of the Basker Mi A. E. Uyer

Mr & Mrs WA. villes."

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Capt. E. Hall facts, and then mussing the evidence 10 r & Mrs J. Hancock' that it encloses the culprit.. His hand- J. B: Hawker. ling of the Sigishee: Manderson death Mr G. M. Hemsworth ense is a sheer delight. Trent makes two Mr & Mrs Hawker RAILWAY mistakes; uul one likes him all the bet

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BAMA MAGNIFICENT FAILURE, Probably the most notable pioneer de tective in French fiction is Lecoq, the creation of that wonderful manufacturer of crime stories, Emile Gaboriau. In Monsieur Lecoq," when "Gaborian first introduces him, a rathless pursuit results in magnificent failure. Young Lecaq, Berce and black-haired, had not then adopted the necessary axiom, Always distrust what seems proliable. In "The Old Age of Leco the detective is still distinguished by his cycn, which sparkle brilliantly or grow dull according to his mood. He is then infallible, and M. Gaborieu explains why."

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A. very steady going. American deter tive is McCarty, the hero of most of lias Isabel Ostrander's tremendously exciting works, notably Whose Cards and

MuCarty Incog," There is nothing romantic about this sleuth. ile is n solid. bull-necked person with a lot of common Actise. McCarty's only, genins is that of taking infinite pains, and in bis lahanra he has the helpful advice of Dennis Riordan, a fellow-countryman, from the New York Fire Brigade, 24

The most promising recruit English fiction has had for years is Mrs. Agatha Christic." The Mysterious Affair at Styles," "The Secret Adversary, and

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