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Absent-minded Professor Tries Counterfeit Swindle
Detective Kenyon unravels a London counterfeit scheme tied to Professor Pelotard and a red-haired dealer Lavertisse. The missing link is a celebrated absent-minded scholar, whose schemes collapse after a dramatic arrest at 492 Gothenburg Road and a raid on North Vereker Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alf-Way
Gothenburg
Messrs. Jones & Greenway
Gilmour Square
Ingram
Gothenburg Road
Daily Telegraph
Pelotard
Paris
Professor Pelotard
London
N. W
South Kensington
East Central District
Fenchurch Street
Kensington
Holborn
Daily Mail
James Kenyon
Exeter Place
Kenyon
Scotland Yard
Dion-Bouton Co
Oxford Street
Randolph Caxton
Lord Randolph
Detective Headquarters
Powers That Be
London County and Westminster Bank
M. Adolphe Lavertisse
Southampton Row
M. Lavertisse
Southampton
Blair
Pall Mall
Westminster Gazette
Pall Mall Gazette
England
Mr. Kenyon
Ste
Lavertisse
Mr. Jones
Brown
Smith
Messrs. Smith, Brown and Jones
Mr. Smith
Mr. Brown
Globe Theater
Professor
Randolph Claxton
Vereker Road
Thom
Rufus Chandler
University of London
Dunn- Bouton Company
R. C
Messrs
White
Younger
Hawkins
Burton
Waller
Edwards
Chandler
Tom Jeffries
Bank of England
France
Mr. Collin