Mystery and Crime Ottolengui, Rodrigues: A Modern Wizard (1894), 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 third, and most fantastic, of Ottolengui's four sensational detective novels, involving hypnosis, morphine, glandular experiments, deliberately induced insanity, and an Aztec temple underneath New York City.

"Crime and the Napoleonic scientist, also fantastic history... A curious work. At times melodramatic in the worst way, yet at other times intellectually rigorous." ―Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years

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