Mr. Maverick Narkom Superintendent at Scotland Yard flung aside the paper he was reading and
wheeled round in his revolving desk-chair all alert on the instant like a terrier that scents
a rat. He knew well what the coming of the footsteps toward his private office portended his
messenger was returning at last. Good! Now he would get at the facts of the matter and be
relieved from the sneers of carping critics and the pin pricks of overzealous reporters who
seemed to think that the Yard was to blame and all the forces connected with it to be screamed
at as incompetents if every evildoer in London was not instantly brought to book and his
craftiest secrets promptly revealed.... Reprint of the detective novel starring Hamilton Cleek
the Man of the Forty Faces. Originally published in 1912.
