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The Trail of the Beast

Achmed Abdullah

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III CLEWS James Oliveb Tennant was not the sort of detective of fiction who moves through the room where a crime has been committed on his hands and knees, nose and eyes close to the ground after the manner of a slobbering, sniffling, blue-mottled otter-hound, looking for cigar ashes or hair-pins or bits of limburger with which to construct his case. Nor was he the sort who, on the spur of the moment, often even before the spur of the moment, invents, develops, perfects, manufactures, and uses a marvelously intricate and delicate recording apparatus which automatically, when clamped around the jugular vein or the liver of the culprit, bellows through a gramophone-horn: "Thou art the Man! Confess!" After which follows confession, contrition, and conviction--not to speak of compensation. On the contrary, it is doubtful if he had ever heard of deductive ratiocination, and he shocked the French and therefore uncompromisingly logical mind of his chief, Henri Ducastel, by succeeding in spite of his methods, which were unorthodox, negligent, cavalierly--quite South Carolinian, in fact. For he calmly passed over most small details, saying that a criminal who was big enough would either himself eradicate all treacherous clews or plant wrong clews on purpose to deceive the police, while if the criminal did not have enough sense to go through and act according to such reasoning, he, Tennant, for one had no intention of getting mixed up with the case. He preferred worth while game. So he usually proceeded in his investigations by methods which Henri Ducastel called slipshod, which he himself pronounced to be applied psychology, and which might, with equal truth, be styled applied poetry. For he progressed by sudden leaps of his imagination, by sudden graspings ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trail of the Beast. To get started finding The Trail of the Beast, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1150191627

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III CLEWS James Oliveb Tennant was not the sort of detective of fiction who moves through the room where a crime has been committed on his hands and knees, nose and eyes close to the ground after the manner of a slobbering, sniffling, blue-mottled otter-hound, looking for cigar ashes or hair-pins or bits of limburger with which to construct his case. Nor was he the sort who, on the spur of the moment, often even before the spur of the moment, invents, develops, perfects, manufactures, and uses a marvelously intricate and delicate recording apparatus which automatically, when clamped around the jugular vein or the liver of the culprit, bellows through a gramophone-horn: "Thou art the Man! Confess!" After which follows confession, contrition, and conviction--not to speak of compensation. On the contrary, it is doubtful if he had ever heard of deductive ratiocination, and he shocked the French and therefore uncompromisingly logical mind of his chief, Henri Ducastel, by succeeding in spite of his methods, which were unorthodox, negligent, cavalierly--quite South Carolinian, in fact. For he calmly passed over most small details, saying that a criminal who was big enough would either himself eradicate all treacherous clews or plant wrong clews on purpose to deceive the police, while if the criminal did not have enough sense to go through and act according to such reasoning, he, Tennant, for one had no intention of getting mixed up with the case. He preferred worth while game. So he usually proceeded in his investigations by methods which Henri Ducastel called slipshod, which he himself pronounced to be applied psychology, and which might, with equal truth, be styled applied poetry. For he progressed by sudden leaps of his imagination, by sudden graspings ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Trail of the Beast. To get started finding The Trail of the Beast, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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