Incredible Detective : The biography of William J. Burns by Caesar, Gene - 1968

Prentice-Hall, 1968. 224 pages, black-and-white photos. Boards are clean, text is unmarked, name inked out on first page, small split in spine/onto front cover. Dustjacket is bright & clean, scuff & small tears, price clipped. Burns was a brilliant detective, his shrewd logic, his uncanny intuition and unwillingness to accept the impossible led him to ferret out information and solve criminal cases that others had considered insoluble. He was the government's "Star of the Secret Service," and head of the Bureau of Investigation. His friends were legion, including President Theodore Roosevelt, but so were his enemies. Contents include: Making of a Supersleuth; Frauds in the Lieu-Lands; Four Willful, Obstinate Men; Burns and His Bloodhounds; Front-Page Detective.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Used.