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…
Tag: 1920
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…
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 boy who looked ahead – John Talbot French – 1920
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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…