The Revelations of Inspector Morgan (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Revelations of Inspector Morgan I was about to proceed to work my point further, in this introduction and dedication of my work to the American public, when it struck me that the business of a novelist is not to argue and to reason, and that he does wrong to encroach upon the province either of the preacher or the politician. If he have a point to make or doctrine to put forth, let him not depart from his own fictional modes of expression. In other words, if he has anything to say to the public let him not dully point a moral. Let him tell it in a Story. That is sound sense enough, and as I really have some thing more to say in disfavour of the ways of the amateur detective I propose to tell it in fiction form. Here is my story. It is told in the character of a worthy gentleman of the medical profession, by name Jobson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.