Crossword-Solution: MAXX 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

The reply to this message was the rather surprising information that Detective Maxx had been in Damietta several days, and knew of the contemplated robbery.

The watchmen in all the banks were instructed to be unusually vigilant, the policemen were apprised of what was suspected, a number of officers were to lounge upon the streets near at hand in citizens' clothes, and Aristides Maxx, one of the most skillful detectives in the metropolis, was engaged upon the case.

Some doubted his presence in Damietta, but the superior officer of the city felt that courtesy demanded that Maxx should report to him before trying to follow up any trail of his own.

When asked whether Detective Maxx had revealed himself, he said: "I have seen nothing of him, and do not care to see him.

Tell me, are you not the celebrated Maxx Stumpf von Schweinsberg?" There must have been something particularly strange in this question; because the gravity which had shaded the knight's countenance disappeared at once, at the mere mention of this name.