Whispering Wires

In the greatest city of the modern world, in the Metropolis of Guilt and Guile--where Alias and Alibi ride in gum-shod limousines while Mary Smith of the pure heart walks the pa...

The Munition Magnate thrust a shaking hand toward the detective. "I'm glad!" he declared raising his voice. "You did well in the Morphy case. That's the reason I called upon you...

Triggy Drew stood on the marble steps of the Stockbridge mansion. The butler had just helped him on with his coat. The door had closed softly. The outer air gripped with cold th...

Triggy Drew had no good answer for Delaney's question concerning the revolver. The matter was important in view of the threat aimed toward Stockbridge. Why Loris should obtain a...

The magpie's words, repeated over and over as Drew and Delaney stood in the room of death, struck both men as a possible clew. It was more than likely that the murderer or the m...

Detective Triggy Drew flushed slightly beneath his olive skin. He bowed, with his keen eyes fixed upon the little, ivory-handled revolver clutched so tightly in Loris Stockbridg...

Delaney stepped behind his chief and followed in single file as the detective swung from the Avenue at Thirty-ninth Street and turned toward the east on the up-town side of the...

He wandered into the express elevator, yawned a "eighteen, out" signal to the elevator pilot and stepped from the cage with the general air of a man who had spent a hard night w...

The two detectives leaned back in their respective chairs and eyed each other. Both swung and stared out of the window at the swirling snow which salted across the window in an...

The business of a modern detective agency is managed in much the same manner as a corporation or a large firm of corporation lawyers. Its tentacles, or operatives, are spread ov...

Night was falling upon the greatest city in the world. After night would come the myriads of electric lights in the huge Broadway signs--the surface cars creeping through the sn...

Triggy Drew had been trained in the hardest school in the world. Loris Stockbridge's statement, delivered with such sincerity and so naively, completely upset him. It was like a...

Loris Stockbridge finished speaking with a low sob which went straight to the detective's heart. He advanced across the room and ran his arm about her supple waist. "We'll help...

The detective wasted no time searching the trouble-hunter's pockets. His skilled fingers drew forth two envelopes, a note book and a small roll of money, the least of which was...

The prisoner lifted his manacled hands and held them toward Drew. "Let me loose," he said, "and I'll explain everything that I've done! I want it off my mind. I won't sleep unti...

He adjusted his coat lapels, clicked his heels and smiled politely. His hand strayed up to his short-cropped mustache which was still neat and well-trimmed despite the labors of...