G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
New York 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.