Show modern detective not sleuth of old times when did detectives finally discard the black mustache we observe that detective det fiction at least with which the book market Is flooded has quite withdrawn from tile the black and scowling sleuth with his nil all too visible trappings of the chase the truth Is it was tile the melodrama more markedly than the novel that so pictured the pursuers of the transgressor the best detectives we learn tire those whom nobody suspects of detecting tec ting it Is your mild mannered man often of fair hair and guileless eye who leads the wicked stop step by step into the trap of the law this detecting 11 Is a gift bestowed for tile the good of mankind its possessor learns ills his powers little by little and la Is pos hessed by them combined ot of intuition and nn an uncanny suspicion the ferreting sees its hypothesis grow into stern facts such a detective Is ns as clever in constructing the plot of crime as the scientist Is in creating the whole prehistoric animal out of a single leg bone platos logic splitting hairs Is as nothing to it it st louls louis globe dem |