The detective was dead.On August 6, 1975, the New York Times published a front-page obituary for one of the most famous private detectives in history. Before becoming a private investigator, he had been a high-ranking detective in the Belgian police force. In 1904, he was forced to flee his home because of the invasion, occupation, torture, and mass murder of Belgian citizens by German t...
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