A prominent lawyer in a small town is found dead and suspicion points to another young lawyer, who was known to have quarreled with him. The evidence is all circumstantial, but Lawrence is arrested. A local reporter, who happened to have been on Hemlock Avenue at the time the crime was committed, follows up the many clues and eventually...* * * *It is safe to predict that even the jaded reader of detective stories will tighten his grip on this book before he is through its fifth chapter, and read it eagerly to the very end. The plot is something different, which is the best thing that can be said for a detective story in these post-Sherlockian days. -Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine 1908]
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