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…
Tag: 1920
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:
Enchantment – Harold MacGrath – 1920
Description: Five novellas of adventure, gambling and mystery. Reviews: Rating:
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…