Stories by Edward H. Smith

New Scientific Devices Used by Burglars and How the Bankers Meet Them

Some Curious Contrivances of the Oblique Mind that Have No Prototype in Legitimate Technology

Its Development, and the Means Employed to Beat It, From the Earliest Days

Something About the Acquisitive Gentleman Who Burns Buildings for Profit

Some of the Tests by Which the Expert Reveals the Forgery for What It Is

Armor of Concrete and Steel that Aims to Foil the Scientific Cracksman

Ingenuity Ranging from Marked Cards to Crooked Roulette Wheels for Separating the Fool and His Money

Gathering in the Foolish Dimes and the Heedless Dollars at the Summer Amusement Parks

Clever Devices Put Forward by Inventive Genius for Catching the Prowler at His Work

Another Phase of the Constant Battle Waged Between the Lawful Owner and the Skillful Criminal

From the Simple Gong Alarm of Yesteryear to the Elaborate Electric Protective System of Today

The Present Status of the War Between the Check Raiser and the Check Protector

Early Check Forging and the Transition from Plain Forgery to Raising

The Present Status of the War Between Safe Builder and Cracksman

The Story of the Everlasting Struggle Between the Safe Builder and the Bank Robber