Mixed bag of detective short stories. I didn't like Detzer's stuff, which is comprised of stories from the point of view of a U.S. Army investigator, and which are set in 1918-1919 in France. O'Higgins stuff, involving a young scamp who successfully schemes his way into a detective agency, is much funnier and more enjoyable. Jenkins' stuff is somewhere in the middle, with "The Missing Heavyweight" being the best, in spite of a bit of anti-Semitic stuff. ( )

Includes "The MYstery of the Pearl Necklace" one of Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner stories, plus stories by Herbert Jenkins, Harvey O'Higgins, and Karl W. Detzer ( )