Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-18
1.-THE ABANDONED ROOM"

1.-THE ABANDONED ROOM"
At the end of a two hours railway
ride from New York is the country
place known as The Cedars. There OLD
Silas Blackburn lives for years with
his niece. Katherine Perrine, and
few trusted servants. On a certain
night old Silas, muttering that he is
afraid. quits his own bedroom and
locks himself into a gloomy chamber
in the other wing Of the house. Kath-
crime is awakened by strange noises
before daybreak. At her alarm the
bedroom across the court is broken
open and in the bed is found the VIC
tim of a murderer's work.
A little wound at the base of the
skull tells how Blackburn has met his
death. How the slayer got into and
out of the chamber both doors Of which
are locked on the inside Is one Of the
many mysteries brought out for solu-
tion in "The Abandoned Room" new
detective story by Wadsworth Camp.
Among the tragic complications fol-
lowing the original crime Is the death
in the haunted chamber. by precisely
the means used in the case of Black
burn, Of detective who has chosen to
SPCho thC lISnl OIi tfc TOOhl
A curiously assorted lot of book
people stay at The Cedars and try. to
solve the problems of death. Sugges-
| tons are rife of supernormal forces.
Every opportunity is afforded to the
reader to guess wrong. The answers
to all questions as finally reached, are
| amazingly simple. so covering and ex-
planning a weird sequence Of events as
to arouse genuine admiration for the
cleverness and ingenuity of the story's
author.
"THREE'S A CROWD
If, on the day of Doll Brackets mar
rage to George March, Mrs. Bracket
could have been sentenced to 80 years
beyond the tight little island. "Three's
a Crowd" might have been a story
unwritten. The event not turning that
way. here is William Gaines book deal
ing its pointed warnings and rebukes
| to all meddling mothers in-law.
The Brackets are American. George
March Is an English painter u por-
| traits. Mrs. Bracket IN under the i'm
| preston that she Is imbued with fine
spirit Of mother love. What really
moves her 10 rank Jealousy. and by
| means Of her Interference, her profess
tations and sly whisperings into her
| daughters ear-all under pretext of
securing the beloved Dolls happiness
she succeeds In breaking up for time
as neat a little love nest as ever was
built in Hampstead
| How things finally came right and
how near Mrs. Bracket comes to pro-
ducing a tragedy our author manages
to tell with a surprising touch Of hu-
NOR. Since he does arrive at happy
ending one may forgive him for treat
| ing the meddling mother too kindly In
his closing chapters.
ISABEL CARLEToN'S HEART.
! In the book isabel Cartoons Year."
| by Margaret Ashman. very charm
ing and ambitious girl finished her
senior year in the high school OF JET
/ ferson, q city Of the Middle West. In
i Tho Heart OF Isabel Carleton" Just
published. Miss Ashman brings her
/ heroine back from visit to England
in the early part Of the war. and Isabel
i prepares for her work at the univer-
i sity.
The new book is full Of bright Incl
dents of home and college life in JEFF
ferson. Moreover, the romance with
Rodney Fox. which was rather more
i than auereated In thu nnrliAr vo1uunA.