Leonidas Witherall led a busy life. First, he owned and taught at Meredith, "an exemplary school for boys in a present New England town." On the sly, he was the created of "Lieutenant Hazeltine," a radio detective who was a "master of every situation." Finally, he was ever stumblng into his own cases of intrigue and murder, where he found himself competing with his creation, the fabulous Hazeltine._{John Dunning}