Publisher's Synopsis
The Crime of the Century offers Dr. Rodrigues Ottolengui, the author, a better storytelling opportunity than he has hitherto chosen. For while the detective fever in his veins is unabated, he sees a world outside his detective experience; a world where vice and crime are not matters of curious speculation merely, but of necessity: a world whose standards are different from those of the world of industry and order, whose ambitions are definite, and whose failures are final. The crime of the century is no petty infringement of an arbitrary code, but an offence too common to be startling; an offence which leads to wickedness and ruin incalculable. The secret of the story is carefully guarded, and the excitement of the chase pervades its pages.
