Description: Here is a detective story for those who find murder unpleasant but detection exciting. Nobody is killed in order to make a Roman holiday for the reader. The interest, instead, centers around the disappearance of the silver belonging to St. Peter’s Church, which on a Sunday morning when a large congregation was present. The…
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Waylaid By Wireless – Edwin Balmer – 1920
Description: This is the story, told with ‘‘international” humor, of travel in the English cathedral towns, of the voyage home, of the surprising actions of the ‘‘ wireless,” of impenetrable mystery and the detection of a bewildering thief—the rollicking, exciting, absorbing, unique story. The first big wireless novel—filled with charming touches of travel through the…
From Now On – Frank L Packard – 1920
Description: A story of the underworld, especially of a man who became enmeshed in its toils, but by the aid of two loyal friend is reformed. It is decidedly adventure story full of thrilling situations. Reviews: Rating:
The Pit Prop Syndicate – Freeman Wills Crofts – 1920
Description: The story revolves around uncovering how the criminals are smuggling goods from England to the European Continent. Reviews: Rating: 3
Jane Cable – George Barr McCutcheon – 1920
Description: Blackmail and revenge are the keynotes of this story of modern Chicago, involving two families of business and social prominence. The secret of Jane Cable’s parentage is known only to her supposed mother and to the lawyer and his clerk who arranged her adoption. She is in love with this wretched lawyer’s only son,…
The Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes – George Barton – 1920
Description: A gripping story for all lovers of mystery and adventure, full of exciting episodes and capping climaxes. The Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes, by George Barton, a detective yarn of the first water, has its opening scenes laid in Washington, where a retired “chief,” for years an expert in the government secret service, is…
Suspected – George Dilnot – 1920
Description: A vivid gripping detective story, heavy on plot. Did a beautiful girl kill the millionaire, and was the young newspaper reporter, nicknamed “The Crime Merchant”, trying to throw Scotland Yard off the scent? Reviews: Rating:
The Vagrant Duke – George Gibbs – 1920
Description: The Vagrant Duke, by George Gibbs, centers around the thrilling experience of an ex-Grand Duke of Russia, who having barely escaped with his life from the Bolsheviki, comes to America to earn his living. He secures the position of forester on a remote property situated in Jersey. The owner proves to be a very…
Castle To Let – GM Reynolds – 1920
Description: A wild and romantic spot in Hungary is the scene of this story. Camiola France, a young English girl, has come to the place to visit a school friend . It is far off the beaten track of travel, and its one tourist hotel had been closed some years before after the inexplicable disappearance…
The Preventive Man – GV McFadden – 1920
Description: The time is the early part of the 19th century when smuggling was the chief occupation of the coast dwellers in certain parts of England A Government Inspector whose brother has disappeared comes to an isolated fishing village to unearth the mystery and discovers many strange things Reviews: Rating: