Description: An ingenious detective story unravelling the mystery of the death of a wealthy English baronet found helpless in his library. Reviews: Rating: 4
Tag: 1919
Woman Named Smith – M Oemier – 1919
Description: This is a story that leads one into many intellectual byways, drawing upon all knowledge to contribute a rich background for the mystery, weird ghostliness and intricate human love that form its plot. Sophronisba Smith inherits an ancient, historic house in South Carolina and the same quarrels, feuds, and a century-old enigma concerning one…
Behind Red Curtains – Mansfield Scott – 1919
Description: A murder mystery in which hypnotism is involved in the crime and in its discovery. The scene is a Long Island country estate. Reviews: Rating:
A Nest of Spies – Marcel Allain – 1919
Description: This is the fourth of the Fantomas series of detective tales. Fantomas is now a spy in the German interest, and his Mephistophelian machinations are circumvented by Detective Juve and the journalist Fandor. The master-criminal is almost caught, but escapes to make his reappearance in another volume – an ending any Fantomas fan knows…
The Chinese Puzzle – Marian Bower – 1919
Description: Almost all of the action of this story takes place at the country home of Sir Roger de la Haye, where a house party is in progress. Among the guests are Chi Lung, from China, and Paul Marketeim, a noted financier. Sir Roger, like his father before him, is a diplomat deeply steeped in…
The Mystery Keepers – Marion Fox – 1919
Description: An exciting mystery story of dramatic scenes based on a long-standing family fued dating back to mediaeval times, w.en an abbess was expelled from her convent. Thereafter, through many generations, the heir was always found dead, apparertly by violence, on the day succeeding his coming ol age. The marks of 2 woman’s fingers on…
The Hollow Needle – Maurice Leblanc – 1919
Description: Deals with the further adventures of that arch rogue, but courteous gentleman, Arsene Lupin; beginning with a murder and a robbery, mystery and complications of all kinds pile up, centering round clue of “the hollow needle.” Reviews: Rating: 2
Arsene Lupin – Maurice Leblanc – 1919
Description: Originally published in serial, this series of eight short stories introduces us to Arsene Lupin, gentleman burglar. Unlike Hornung’s Raffles, Lupin doesn’t really have any flaws. Sometimes he robs someone to give it away. Sometimes. Lupin became the Anti-Holmes, particularly to the French, and Leblanc essentially spent the rest of his career writing Lupin…
The Man of Last Resort – Melville Davisson Post – 1919
Description: The creator of Randolph Mason again introduces this unscrupulous lawyer and furnishes five more stories to show the defects in criminal law and how skillful rogues may commit not a few of the higher crimes in such manner as to render the law powerless to punish them when aided and abetted by a conscienceless…
Rosalind at Red Gate – Meredith Nicholson – 1919
Description: Miss Patricia Holbrook, to relieve herself of the persecutions of a degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which she has in trust, takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan who is spending his summer at a nearby estate….