Mr. Maverick Narkom, Superintendent at Scotland Yard, flung aside the
paper he was reading and wheeled round in his revolving desk-chair, all
alert on the instant, like a terrier that scents a rat. He knew well
what the coming of the footsteps toward his private office portended;
his messenger was returning at last. Good! Now he would get at the facts
of the matter, and be relieved from the sneers of carping critics and
the pin pricks of overzealous reporters, who seemed to think that the
Yard was to blame, and all the forces connected with it to be screamed
at as incompetents if every evildoer in London was not instantly brought
to book and his craftiest secrets promptly revealed.... Reprint of the
detective novel starring Hamilton Cleek, the \Man of the Forty Faces\.
Originally published in 1912.