The police detective usually lacks the training,
education, and social experience to make him effective in
dealing with the class of elite criminals who make high
society their field. Yet, of course, it is this class of
crooks who most excite our interest and who fill the pages
of popular detective fiction.
The headquarters man has no time nor inclination to follow the
sporting duchess and the fictitious earl who accompanies her
in their picturesque wanderings around the world. He is busy
inside the confines of his own country. Parents or children
may disappear, but the mere seeking of oblivion on their part
is no crime and does not concern him except by special
dispensation on the part of his superiors. Divorced couples
may steal their own children back and forth, royalties may
inadvertently involve themselves with undesirables,
governmental information exude from State portals in a
peculiar manner, business secrets pass into the hands of
rivals, racehorses develop strange and untimely diseases,
husbands take long and mysterious trips from home--a thousand
exciting and worrying things may happen to the astonishment,
distress, or intense interest of nations, governments,
political parties, or private individuals, which from their
very nature are outside the purview of the regular police.
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