Explore "The French Powder Mystery" by Ellery Queen on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"_Manhunting is by all odds the most thrilling profession in the world. Its thrills... are in exact proportion to the temperament of the manhunter. It reaches its completest fulfillment in the investigator who... observing microscopically the phenomena of a crime and collating them precisely, exercises his God-given gift of imagination and concocts a theory which embraces_ ALL _the phenomena and omits none, not the tiniest crumb of a fact.... Penetration, patience, and passion -- these rarely combined qualities make the genius of criminal investigation, just as they make the genius of any profession, unless the extra-mundane arts be excepted...._" -- From THERE IS AN UNDER WORLD _By_ James Redix (the Elder).
Cyrus French's house fronted the Hudson River, on lower Riverside Drive. It was old and dusky, set well back from the Drive and surrounded by primly kept shrubbery. A low iron fence ran around the property.