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The Masked Woman, by Johnston McCulley, inveigles the reader into deepest mystery right from the start. A dignified spectacled professor, wearying of the monotony of academic tradition, aspires to enter the fascinating and dangerous game of the underworld; he allies himself with a noted crook and gunman and their joint adventures straightway lead them into the toils of a charming but strange masked woman. The whole gang”sets forth upon a career of robbery and blackmail and become involved in thrilling escapades, through which the fair unknown mysteriously appears and strangely vanishes. Not until the very end of a series of baffling events does she disclose the reason of her disguise and her purpose in her schemes—much to the dismay of her enemies and the gratification of her professorial accomplice. The scene is laid in New York and makes an absorbing tale which will prove most popular as summer holiday fiction.

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