Description: This is a mystery story, and a curiously original one. A young lad mysteriously disappears from his employer’s curio shop in a Burmese bazaar. The Eastern atmosphere all through the book is capital, and unusually well done. The disappearance is reported to the local English police, whose head, Hartley, makes a few casual inquiries,…
Tag: 1920
The Fortieth Door – Mary Bradley – 1920
Description: A mystery story which draws thrills from Cairo, Mohammedan weddings, and even Egyptian tombs where the heroine is placed in the cask of a mummy to secure her from a would be Turkish lord. An American rescues her and we are assured is happy ever after. Reviews: Rating:
The Exploits of Arsene Lupin – Maurice Leblanc – 1920
Description: So large a space in modern fiction has been filled by the amazing achievements of the private detective that it was high time that some writer attempted to restore the balance of things by recording the more incredible exploits of a daring criminal. Reviews: Rating:
The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason – Melville Davisson Post – 1920
Description: A collection of stories based upon the present criminal law of New York showing its loopholes and weak points, and pointing out how an unscrupulous man might commit almost any crime and escape punishment with the advice of an unscrupulous lawyer. Randolph Mason is this kind of a lawyer. He successfully aids his clients…
The House of a Thousand Candles – Meredith Nicholson – 1920
Description: The story of a rather reckless man who is left a peculiar inheritance by a still more peculiar uncle. How he finds out the unwritten meaning of his will and how it develops him into a man, the reader must find for himself. Reviews: Rating:
The Man Inside – Natalie Sumner Lincoln – 1920
Description: The first chapter, a sort of prologue, is laid in a cafe in Colon where a stranger with very blue eyes and very black hair behaved in a somewhat precipitate manner. Then the scene shifts to Washington and the actual tale begins, when on a certain dark and stormy night Senator Carew of Maryland…
The Debit Account – Oliver Onions – 1920
Description: In his previous book, In accordance with the evidence, the author told of the bringing to justice privately of an utterly unworthy man. Here Jeffries takes up his story at the point of his marriage with the dead man’s fiancee. Like the earlier book the tale is told in a diary, it records his…
The Lady of North Star – Otwell Binns – 1920
Description: A mystery story of the great northwest which the chief interest centers in the pursuit a criminal by the mounted police. Reviews: Rating:
The Secret Spring – P Benoit – 1920
Description: Mystery story staged in the German court of Lautenburg-Detmold just before WWI. It is an enthralling story introducing characters which are far superior to the usual puppets of fiction. M Benoit has been awarded this year’s Grand Prix du Roman by the French Academy. Reviews: Rating:
Christopher Quarles – Percy James Brebner – 1920
Description: Entertaining stories of criminal problems, strange disappearances, robberies, intrigue and bloodshed. The experiences are those of young Murray Wigan, clever Scotland Yard man, who is baffled in some of his many cases, so he visits the professor in an empty room and returns anew to his work find the facts that fit the philosopher’s…