The Chinese Label – J Frank Davis – 1920

Description: A Secret Service story of the unsensational and realistic variety. Its methods are those of subtley and finesse, rather than coercion and force. The Chinese Label, from the height and depth and general enthrallment ot ts plot is warranted to hold readers of detective fiction spellbound from start to finish. The picturesque city of…

Ladyfingers – Jackson Gregory – 1920

Description: Mr. Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing. Ladyfingers, so named because of his delicacy of touch in manipulating safe combinations, is a poetic and romantic burglar who has made himself a gentleman (outside of his professional work) because of his mother’s influence in his young boyhood. In the end, he puts…

No Clue – James Hay – 1920

Description: Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim is a young girl, the scene the lawn in front of “Sloanehurst” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer. It is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurat at the time, to…

The Winning Clue – James Hay – 1920

Description: This is a detective story with a most usual ending. Lawrence Bristow, amateur detective, answers a call for help and finds that Enid Withers has been murdered while staying with her invalid sister, Maria Fulton. Who killed Mrs. Withers? Her husband? Her sister? Her sister’s fiance? A handyman? The mysterious man with a beard?…

Without Mercy! – John Goodwin – 1920

Description: The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret Garth is the only child of Mrs. Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful suitor, and he determines to seek revenge….

The Masked Woman – Johnston McCulley – 1920

Description: 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…

The Mystery of Lynne Court – JS Fletcher – 1920

Description: Taking its start from a near-murder, the beautiful victim of which instantly engages the special interest of the hastily summoned Doctor. The story develops into a complicated network of crime, including two murders. Hextall, the doctor and self-constituted investigator, after working industriously with professional detectives and following up every available clue, is beaten to…

The Markenmore Mystery – JS Fletcher – 1920

Description: The Markenmore Mystery tells of the murder, in his own ancestral grounds, of the heir to the Markenmore title and estates, and a man still young, who has returned after an absence and a silence of six years expressly to repudiate the wealth he does not need. It takes Klick, of London, a long…