"The Wire Tappers" by Arthur Stringer is a criminal romance novel. This ingenious story is about the shady industry of telegraph eavesdropping. In bad luck, two smart people, a man, and a woman are actively involved in this and other criminal activities, with the goal of getting a foothold in the nice world, symbolized in the man's mind by fruitful adjustments in electrical apparatus. The author has chosen a new genre for romance that combines elements of detective fiction.