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How to do? This is five books. One of the most intriguing side aspects of detection, and one of the most irritating from the police viewpoint, is a number of tests and cranks who come forward whenever a major crime has been committed.

For instance, there are always the well-meaning amateurs who are sure they could solve the harm given the chance. Then there are the psychic buttons who claim to have seen the criminal in a crystal ball or a Ouija board or in a dream.

Then there are the sensation lists to build up casually-heard gossip and rumors into sworn statements of fact columnists, letter writers, who make the wildest accusations against the most improbable people. And more often than you might realize, there are the psychopathicest confessions of the crime and demand to be arrested. I call these people pests because their activities are an hindrance to proper investigation

and often they have harmful and occasionally tragic results. You think I I overstate the case, believe me, I don't. To prove my point, let me tell you the story of Major General Charles Edward Lohab and his wife Caroline, and then you can judge for yourself.

There's a fifth century. There were few better known or more widely respected couples in the whole county of Kent than General and Mrs. Lohab. The General had retired in 1887 at the age of 48, and since then, he and his wife had lived at item no near suppose.

Their life was placid and cut. The General was a magistrate a member of the county council and the relaxation he paid out at the wilderness country truck. Despite the fact that the public three miles from his home he usually walked there and back and so it was not at all unusual when soon after