Guy Garrick

A motor-car is used for a robbery, and Guy Garrick — a detective who works with a laboratory, a telephone tap and a knowledge of engines — goes after a gang who understand machinery as well as he does. Reeve created Craig Kennedy and wrote some eighty stories in the same vein; this 1914 one is the motoring novel of the series, and the technology in it was brand new when he wrote it. Fifty-eight plates of painting from 1856 to 1925, including Whistler and Bellows, run from night steelworks to a sand cart, matching a story of machinery and the people caught up in it.