Description: Five novellas of adventure, gambling and mystery. Reviews: Rating:
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Call Mr. Fortune – HC Bailey – 1920
Description: As a doctor, Reggie is a delightful fellow. As an efficient assistant to Scotland Yard, he is deadly. The thrills along one’s spine when Reggie flicks into the beyond a quite superfluous criminal are the evidence that these are among the best of detective stories. Reviews: Rating: 4
The Peddler – Henry C Rowland – 1920
Description: Dorsey of the secret service masquerades as a peddler and outwits a group of notorious criminals to winsthe girl he loves. Not much characterization, but brisk and interesting. Is another of Dr. Rowland’s delightful and really mysterious mystery stories centering around that gang of international crooks o which Chu-Chu La Tondeur was the founder….
Duds – Henry C Rowland – 1920
Description: Duds, by Henry C. Rowland, has for its here an agreeable and handsome youth who possessed talent which amounted almost to a genius for getting himself mixed up in the unfortunate affairs of others, and this not long before had got himself into serious trouble. In the very first chapter he rescues a fascinating…
The Witness of the Sun – Henry Smith Williams – 1920
Description: A mass of incontrovertible circumstantial evidence seemingly surrounding the murder of a New York financier. Reviews: Rating: 4
The Second Bullet – Isabel Ostrander – 1920
Description: Mrs. Allison Hartshorne, the rich young widow, leads such a blameless life that when she is found murdered in her home it is difficult for the exclusive set with which she moves to imagine any motive for the act. When young Paul Harvey Is put on the case he goes over all her associates,…
Booty – Isabel Ostrander – 1920
Description: A mystery story. There isn’t a single detective in the whole story, but there is a mighty discerning woman who uses her brains and her inspiration. What can possibly be in a bottle of olives, a bunch of grapes,? What can there be in them that makes high born high minded men and women…
The Twenty six Clues – Isabel Ostrander – 1920
Description: A retired police detective and a New York city fireman who were active in solving the mystery of an earlier story by Isabel Ostrander, are the chief actors in her latest tale. The case grows out of the finding of a young woman’s body in the ‘museum’ of a dabbler in criminal investigation. whose…
The Dangerous Inheritance – Izola Forrester – 1920
Description: A story of international intrigue and adventure centering about the famous Tittam rubies and written with a vividness that ensure success. Reviews: Rating:
The Searchers – J Foster – 1920
Description: The Searchers, by John Foster, with Scotland for its background, is concerned with the fortunes of a house which bore about it the fine craftsmanship of the fifteenth century and with “strange affairs, meetings with crafty and violent men, stratagems and spoils.” To begin with it involves a hunt for world famous jewels and…