[4] Adventures in Journalism. Pages 245-246.
[5] “The Doomdorf Mystery” is the opening story in Mr. Post’s book, Uncle Abner, Matter of Mysteries (1918).
[6] Aristotle in his Poetics.
[7] Walter Pater.
[8] The quotations from. Mr. Post are collated from the chapter on him in Blanche Colton Williams’s Our Short Story Writers (Dodd Mead).
[9] See Gilbert Murray’s Euripides and His Age in the Home University Library (Holt).
[10] Blanche Colton Williams in the chapter on Mr. Post in Our Short Story Writers.
[11] The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
[12] Identified by a correspondent of the Boston Herald (18 October 1923) as Dago Frank, Lefty Louie, Whitey Lewis, Gyp the Blood—figures in the Becker case.
[13] “Tammany ruled through the corner saloon,” Farnol is quoted as saying, in an interview appearing in the New York Tribune, 19 October 1923. “Dear me, yes, we used to vote ever so many times. I always went out with my Hell’s Kitchen gang, and we voted for Tammany as often as we were told, changing our coats and going in time and time again. That was when we were voting against Jerome.