THIEVES' WIT
An Everyday Detective Story
BY HULBERT FOOTNER
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1918,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed in the United States of America
THIEVES' WIT
1
My first case!—with what an agreeable thrill a professional man repeats the words to himself. With most men I believe it is as it was with me, not the case that he intrigues for and expects to get but something quite different, that drops out of Heaven unexpected and undeserved like most of the good things of life.