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...murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
...prowess in detection the office of Chief Constable was specially created for Frederick Wensley, whose service at Scotland Yard began 47 years ago just before the dreadful days of Jack the Ripper...
...Regents Park Case. A woman was missing. Sleuth Wensley traced her to a house in Regents Park; found her there, murdered, and with her one Maltby, a tailor who had locked himself in the house and lived for weeks alone beside her body...
...Gerard Case. A Mme. Gerard was murdered, with only two clues?a laundry mark, a cryptic message. Sleuth Wensley deduced the murderer...
...Wensley method for solving a particularly trying mystery was always the same. Slumping into a big armchair...