The Detective's Dream follows the suspenseful adventures of detective Sinclair and his consequent trials and triumphs. Excerpt: "IT is years since I dreamt that dream, yet scarcely a Christmas comes and goes that I do not many times recall it. Perhaps it and the events which followed made a deeper impression on my memory because I was at the time barely recovering from the most serious illness I ever had in my life, and was unhinged both in body and mind."