Word: sleuths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sleuth. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was bombarded with problems for solution by the methods of his best-known character. Many of these he tackled, with varying degrees of success...
...Inveterate Reader of mystery stories has not necessarily the instinct of either a crook or a sleuth; it is, as a rule, immaterial to him whether or not the final chapter brings with it the apprehension of the miscreant who effected the theft or murder. He is, on the other hand, a devotee of crime. He likes to see a good skull or a good safe well cracked. He enjoys the spinal titillation of secret and malign forces lurking in the darker chapters, ready to spring upon the superhero, who loses no opportunity of making himself their target...
...required dash of the bizzarre is obtained through the introduction of a coke-addict and a squirrel cap. Of course, the volume would seem more pleasing if the old theme of the opera singer and the wily conductor were not made so prominent, but the absence of the traditional sleuth with his magnifying glass is enough of a relief to make one forget this trifling triteness...
...novel calculated to please these who delight in pursuing the how and wherefore of a baffling murder assisted by the keen-eyed sleuth...