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Sergt. Stuart Milne
Did the elevated railroad companies have detectives on staff? Maybe, but the chances are that the writer of Daring Desmond was just trading on the excitement about these new trains to enhance Desmo...view moreDid the elevated railroad companies have detectives on staff? Maybe, but the chances are that the writer of Daring Desmond was just trading on the excitement about these new trains to enhance Desmond’s image. Or the publisher may have handed the title to the author and asked him to write a swashbuckling detective story to match it. And as to “Sergt. Stuart Milne,” his true identity may be lost to time. Certainly this editor has been unable to locate his history, and in all probability our author was a newspaper writer making some income on the side by moonlighting for Norman L. Munro Publishing. His choice of nom de plume protects his identity even now.view less