Detective and mystery stories; Fiction; Love stories
"The author has stepped at once to the front ranks among American
writers of detective tales ... a yarn with genuine thrills," (and
comparing it with some of the most popular detective stories) "the
English is better and cleaner cut, the love passages are never maudlin,
there is throughout more dignity and sense, and the book shows
a far wider knowledge of the logical technique of detective
fiction."--_Bookman._
_N. Y. Sun_: "Distinctly an interesting story--one of the sort that the
reader will not lay down before he goes to bed."
_N. Y. Post_: "By comparison with the work of Anna Katharine Green ...
it is exceptionally clever ... told interestingly and well."
_N. Y. Tribune_: "The Holladay Case was a capital story of crime and
mystery. In the Marathon Mystery the author is in even firmer command of
the trick. He is skillful in keeping his reader in suspense, and every
element in it is cunningly adjusted to preserving the mystery inviolate
until the end."
_Boston Transcript_: "The excellence of its style, Mr. Stevenson
apparently knowing well the dramatic effect of fluency and brevity, and
the rationality of avoiding false clues and attempts unduly to mystify
his readers."
_Boston Herald_: "This is something more than an ordinary detective
story. It thrills you and holds your attention to the end. But besides
all this the characters are really well drawn and your interest in the
plot is enhanced by interest in the people who play their parts
therein."
_Town and Country_: "The mystery defies solution until the end. The
final catastrophe is worked out in a highly dramatic manner."
The Holladay Case
With Frontispiece by ELIOT KEEN.
A tale of a modern mystery of New York and Etretat that has been
republished in England and Germany.
This is one of the new and artistic style of detective stories, somewhat
in the vein of Conan Doyle. The tale begins with the finding of a New
York banker stabbed to death in his office. Suspicion falls on his
daughter. A kidnapping and pursuit over seas follow. The story contains
a minimum of horror and a maximum of ingenuity.
"Almost instantly commands the reader's attention."--_Critic._
_N. Y. Tribune_: "Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like a
detective story take care you read a good detective story.' This is a
good detective story, and it is the better because the part of the hero
is not filled by a member of the profession.... The reader will not want
to put the book down until he has reached the last page. Most
ingeniously constructed and well written into the bargain."
BOOKS BY MAY SINCLAIR
THE HELPMATE
A story of married life.
"An advance upon 'The Divine Fire.'"--_London Times._
"The one novel on the divorce question."--_Boston Transcript._
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