James R. Wood's Detective Notebook

James R. Wood was head of the first detective agency in New England. It had been founded by his father in 1879, eight years before Sherlock Holmes solved his first mystery. The case I'm about to relate to you has been considered throughout New England as one of the strongest circumstantial cases ever tried. He took the sleeper train up from Boston, smoking his pipe, pondering the evidence. Most of the stuff you'll hear from him comes straight out of the pages of his notebook.

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