Mystery and Crime Ottolengui, Rodrigues: The Crime of the Century (1896); v1

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Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861-1937) was a New York dentist who pioneered the use of dental X-rays, and in a burst of creative energy wrote four crime novels and numerous short stories in the period 1892-1901.

1 An Artist in Crime 1892
2 A Conflict of Evidence 1893
3 A Modern Wizard 1894
4 The Crime of the Century 1896

Final Proof (short stories) 1898

Detective Jack Barnes was his leading character.

The fourth and last novel, with Barnes and his old sparring partner Mitchel from the first novel once again at cross-purposes. Mitchel, looking into the discovery of a baby girl abandoned in a churchyard, follows a parth that leads him into the sweatshops and slums and even the underworld of 1890s New York, while Barnes is in pursuit of the man who brutally murdered a millionaire. Slowly their paths converge...

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