THE AZURE RING
The following story of Craig Kennedy, scientific detectives, parallels closely a case which has for months baffled the authorities of Southern city. It was a case of sudden death shrouded in deepest mystery. In this story Mr. Reeve, following the lead of Edgar Allan Poe in "The Mystery of Marie Roget," selects a similar background and gives Kennedy—by the way, this character of Kennedy is a new kind of detective in fiction—a chance to unravel the mystery by applying his own original and up-to-date methods.
FILES of newspapers and innumerable clippings from the press bureaus littered Kennedy's desk in rank profusion. Kennedy himself was so deeply absorbed that I had merely said good evening as I came in and had started to open my mail. With an impatient sweep of his hand, h
