Description: Here are mystery stories that have a fine flavor something like the old-time Sherlock Holmes stories. The author is a man of education and of distinguished legal training. His stories are set among surroundings of wealth and position and social standing. He handles his evidences and his psychology with the sure and certain hand…
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The Red Lady – Katharine Newlin Burt – 1920
Description: Janice, a young and beautiful redhead, is penniless and hungry. She takes a far away job after a mysterious woman shoves a note in her hand requesting she apply for a job as a housekeeper far away. Desperate, she ignores the oddness of the situation and is hired for the position. Immediately upon arrival,…
She Who Was Helena Cass – Lawrence Rising – 1920
Description: A tale of a mysterious disappearance, in which a small inn on a secluded mountain of Spain plays a sinister part. Helena Cass did the disappearing—and the American newspapers flashed the story on their front pages. Every European capital was posted with her photograph. The reader discovers Helena before Jay Sefton, a distinguished American…
The Unlatched Door – Leo Thayer – 1920
Description: Young Van Loo Schuyler, after leaving a riotous stag party walks into the unlatched door of the twin house next to his residence and encounters the body of a murdered woman, thereby drawing suspicion to himself. Reviews: Rating: 3
Whispers – Louis Dodge – 1920
Description: From its very start takes the reader into a strange and mysterious atmosphere in the heart of the City where a murder is committed in a costumer’s shop—a murder so startling that it sets the whole town astir. Then there enters upon the scene an apparent stranger to the city, one “Whispers,” a newspaperman…
The Hermit of Far End – Margaret Peddler – 1920
Description: A mystery and a love story. Real emotional and dramatic quality, entertaining and well written. Reviews: Rating:
The Heart of Penelope – Marie Belloc Lowndes – 1920
Description: Lowndes first novel, a murder mystery. Reviews: Rating:
The Pointing Man – Marjorie Douie – 1920
Description: This is a mystery story, and a curiously original one. A young lad mysteriously disappears from his employer’s curio shop in a Burmese bazaar. The Eastern atmosphere all through the book is capital, and unusually well done. The disappearance is reported to the local English police, whose head, Hartley, makes a few casual inquiries,…
The Fortieth Door – Mary Bradley – 1920
Description: A mystery story which draws thrills from Cairo, Mohammedan weddings, and even Egyptian tombs where the heroine is placed in the cask of a mummy to secure her from a would be Turkish lord. An American rescues her and we are assured is happy ever after. Reviews: Rating:
The Exploits of Arsene Lupin – Maurice Leblanc – 1920
Description: So large a space in modern fiction has been filled by the amazing achievements of the private detective that it was high time that some writer attempted to restore the balance of things by recording the more incredible exploits of a daring criminal. Reviews: Rating: