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Justice Syndicate. The Justice Syndicate was created by Hugh Kahler (Joker, White Rook) and appeared in “No Man’s Hand” (Detective Story Magazine, Nov. 23, 1920) and “Purely Circumstantial” (Detective Story Magazine, Jan. 1, 1921).

The Justice Syndicate is the brainchild of Olaf Larsen, the Chief of Detectives of the Pittland Police. Larsen's father is a Norwegian, profession unknown, and the law of Norway, much different from the innocent-until-proven-guilty of America, made an impact on Larsen. So, together with Walter Enfield, a successful young lawyer, Larsen decides to form the Justice Syndicate, which combines "the forces of defense and prosecution" and takes the law into their own hands. They are not hostile to the police, but they use the evidence available to the police to reach verdicts far apart from lawyers' work. Their third member is Charlotte Gray, a former school teacher and amateur detective who ignores facts but because of her sex has a natural intuition about the truth. Their fourth member, the man capable of doing the legwork and strong arm work of the group, is Silvio Farone, an Italian researcher.

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