Private Eyes.

The article focuses on a 1930s series of innovative detective fiction publications by British writer Dennis Wheatley and art historian J. G. Links, which presented fictional crimes as police dossiers containing facsimiles of evidence such as letters, photographs, and physical artifacts. These books—Murder off Miami (1936), Who Killed Robert Prentice? (1937), The Malinsay Massacre (1938), and Herewith the Clues (1939)—transformed detective work into an aesthetic experience, blurring the line between evidence and artifice. Their elaborate production methods and inclusion of real or facsimile materials influenced later mixed-media photobooks that use layered documents and images to explore complex narratives. The series demonstrated how detective stories could engage readers as active investigators, highlighting the constructed nature of evidence. [Extracted from the article]