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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…
Samuel Lyle Criminologist – Jules Castier – 1920
Description: Here are mystery stories that have a fine flavor something like the old-time Sherlock Holmes stories. The author is a man of education and of distinguished legal training. His stories are set among surroundings of wealth and position and social standing. He handles his evidences and his psychology with the sure and certain hand…
The Red Lady – Katharine Newlin Burt – 1920
Description: Janice, a young and beautiful redhead, is penniless and hungry. She takes a far away job after a mysterious woman shoves a note in her hand requesting she apply for a job as a housekeeper far away. Desperate, she ignores the oddness of the situation and is hired for the position. Immediately upon arrival,…
She Who Was Helena Cass – Lawrence Rising – 1920
Description: A tale of a mysterious disappearance, in which a small inn on a secluded mountain of Spain plays a sinister part. Helena Cass did the disappearing—and the American newspapers flashed the story on their front pages. Every European capital was posted with her photograph. The reader discovers Helena before Jay Sefton, a distinguished American…
The Unlatched Door – Leo Thayer – 1920
Description: Young Van Loo Schuyler, after leaving a riotous stag party walks into the unlatched door of the twin house next to his residence and encounters the body of a murdered woman, thereby drawing suspicion to himself. Reviews: Rating: 3
Whispers – Louis Dodge – 1920
Description: From its very start takes the reader into a strange and mysterious atmosphere in the heart of the City where a murder is committed in a costumer’s shop—a murder so startling that it sets the whole town astir. Then there enters upon the scene an apparent stranger to the city, one “Whispers,” a newspaperman…
The Hermit of Far End – Margaret Peddler – 1920
Description: A mystery and a love story. Real emotional and dramatic quality, entertaining and well written. Reviews: Rating:
The Heart of Penelope – Marie Belloc Lowndes – 1920
Description: Lowndes first novel, a murder mystery. Reviews: Rating: