Lightnin': After the Play of the Same Name by Winchell Smith and Frank BaconBacon, Frank
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Lightnin': After the Play of the Same Name by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon
Bacon, Frank
California -- Fiction; Hotels -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Nevada -- Fiction
The "Flirt," the younger of two sisters, breaks one girl's engagement,
drives one man to suicide, causes the murder of another, leads another
to lose his fortune, and in the end marries a stupid and unpromising
suitor, leaving the really worthy one to marry her sister.
THE NOVELS OF MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
_DANGEROUS DAYS._
A brilliant story of married life. A romance of fine purpose and
stirring appeal.
_THE AMAZING INTERLUDE._ Illustrations by The Kinneys.
The story of a great love which cannot be pictured--an
interlude--amazing, romantic.
_LOVE STORIES._
This book is exactly what its title indicates, a collection of love
affairs--sparkling with humor, tenderness and sweetness.
_"K."_ Illustrated.
K. LeMoyne, famous surgeon, goes to live in a little town where
beautiful Sidney Page lives. She is in training to become a nurse. The
joys and troubles of their young love are told with keen and sympathetic
appreciation.
_THE MAN IN LOWER TEN._ Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy.
An absorbing detective story woven around the mysterious death of the
"Man in Lower Ten."
_WHEN A MAN MARRIES._ Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Mayo Bunker.
A young artist, whose wife had recently divorced him, finds that his
aunt is soon to visit him. The aunt, who contributes to the family
income, knows nothing of the domestic upheaval. How the young man met
the situation is entertainingly told.
_THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE._ Illustrated by Lester Ralph.
The occupants of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong on
the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is
announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing
interest.
_THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS._ (Photoplay Edition.)
Harmony Wells, studying in Vienna to be a great violinist, suddenly
realizes that her money is almost gone. She meets a young ambitious
doctor who offers her chivalry and sympathy, and together with
world-worn Dr. Anna and Jimmie, the waif, they share their love and
slender means.
STORIES OF RARE CHARM BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
_MICHAEL O'HALLORAN._ Illustrated by Frances Rogers.
Michael is a quick-witted little Irish newsboy, living in Northern
Indiana. He adopts a deserted little girl, a cripple. He also assumes
the responsibility of leading the entire rural community upward and
onward.
_LADDIE._ Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.
This is a bright, cheery tale with the scenes laid in Indiana. The Story
is told by Little Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it
is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs
of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie and
the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood
and about whose family there hangs a mystery.
_THE HARVESTER._ Illustrated by W. L. Jacobs.
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