THE LAZY DETECTIVE BY GEORGE DILNOT Author of "The Crime Club," "Scotland Yard," etc. Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1927 Printed in Great Britain. CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX THE LAZY DETECTIVE CHAPTER I "And remember, Labar, you don't bluff me." The Chief Constable, who had been through the game himself, tapped the string of figures that lay upon his desk with an aggressive forefinger. "You're lazy--damned lazy. If things don't clear up in your division in the next month or so you can count on something happening. That's all. Think it over." "Thank you, sir," said the other, with the smooth suavity of a man who had received a compliment, and swung on velvet toes from the room.