Joseph Muller Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police is one of the great
experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He
has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur
Lecoq. Muller is a small slight plain-looking man of indefinite age and of much humbleness
of mien. A naturally retiring modest disposition and two external causes are the reasons for
Muller's humbleness of manner which is his chief characteristic. One cause is the fact that in
early youth a miscarriage of justice gave him several years in prison an experience which cast
a stigma on his name and which made it impossible for him for many years after to obtain
honest employment. But the world is richer and safer by Muller's early misfortune. For it was
this experience which threw him back on his own peculiar talents for a livelihood and drove
him into the police force. Had he been able to enter any other profession his genius might
have been stunted to a mere pastime instead of being as now utilised for the public good.
Reprint of the detective novel starring Joseph Muller Secret Service detective of the Imperial
Austrian police.
