Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-28
IN FlcTIoN's FIELD


The cat wore a tag announcing 1t
was "Amy's cat" but as there We're
two Amys In the book that told little.
However, the noise made by the cat
notified the new tenants of the mouse
there was a cellar under that part,
and when the cat was released the
body of a murdered man was FOUND.
The discoveries were student OF
criminology with a fad for detective
work and doctor with a combative
nature, who was interested In any I'M
usual form of research.
These two decided not to reveal the
crime to the authorities, but to follow
up the clews and detect the criminals
themselves. The suspects bore none
too good characters and reveled In
the habits of appearing in the names
of each other. The accusing finger
pointed now toward one and then to-
ward another as the guilty party un-
til the end, when all is made clear.
When the guilty one was discovered
she was found to be one of the Amys,
but all hands decided Amy was 5usti-
fed in killing her husband, who had
assaulted her. and they came to the
conclusion that no public interest re-
quired them to make known the homi-
eide.
So one Amy married the detective,
Amy married one of the suspects,
whom she loved very much, while the
doctor quietly removed the body to
the seashore and tumbled it over the
cliff into the ocean, where 1t has re-
NAMED quietly ever since.
The Man in the Basement. By
Baron Pale Rosenkrantz. New York,
The Empire Book Co.
1.-THE Master Criminal is another of
those thrilling detective stories, SO pop
ular of late, and SO interesting that
one wishes to finish its reading with
out laying down the book.
There is the modern Fagin, who
steals the son of his enemy and teaches
the boy to be a thief so that his teacher
may overwhelm his enemy, by return
ing the son, grown to be a man, at a
time when the latter stands. con-
victed criminal, at the bar of justice.
The Master" is keen, shrewd and of
ability that would make him a mas
ter in any line. Yet his crimes crush
him in the end.
There is the professional detective,
man from Scotland Yard, observant,
quick, decisive and analytical, who
finds slight clews but many of them;
fits them together and decides unerr-
ingly that this one is guilty and that
one innocent. There is the sleuth who
dogs every footstep of the suspect and
there are others.
The attention of the reader Is caught
at once and his interest and curiosity
are sustained to the end, when things
happen rapidly.
8 1t is good story of it's kind, the plot
involved; the development natural and
logical; the story told clearly and con-
cisely and the end satisfactory, for
justice prevails over master in crime
The Master Criminal. BY G. Sid
ney Paternoster. New York, the Cup
pies & Leon Co..
society and gloried in her course. But
she suffered when her lovely and. pure
daughter learned the stain on her birth
and was compelled to refuse the love
of true man rather than bring dis
grace into his family.
The woman finally undertook to make
atonement to society and the world by
deserving her daughter and her fam
lily and by going out to work alone in
the world. that the one she loved most
might be happy.
story. 1t is well written and worth
reading and then thinking over.
The Greater Love. By Anna Mcclure
Sholl. New York: The Outing Pub
fishing company
The laws OF nature draw together
the male and the female The laws OF
society recognize a marriage ceremony
as necessary to bind together the man
and the woman $50 long as they both
co live"
Are there any circumstances in our
day that justify the marriage relation