The Third Episode

    "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).