Richard Austin Freeman

Percival Bland's Proxy and The Missing Mortgagee Illustrated Richard Austin Freeman

Mr. Percival Bland was a somewhat uncommon type of criminal. In the first place hereally had an appreciable amount of common-sense. If he had only had a little more, hewould not have been a criminal at all. As it was, he had just sufficient judgment toperceive that the consequences of unlawful acts accumulate as the acts are repeated; torealise that the criminal's position must, at length, become untenable; and to take whathe considered fair precautions against the inevitable catastrophe.