Arizona republican., 1920-10-31

Meredith, son of an old English baro- net, who has brought home as his bride a London girl. Violet the bride. is mysteriously murdered during house party on the Meredith estate. Superintendent Warrington, a noted London detective officer, and Caldew, young detective trying to bet ahead in his work, fail to solve the death pug gle and wind up by arresting Hazel Rath. daughter of the housekeeper. Here Colwyn, a celebrated private operative, is called in, and by little natural reasoning and careful work ferrets out the true solution, and an entirely unexpected one. For Philip
 f1eredith had killed his own wife, and by an ingenious method of causing a shot to be fired in her room while he
 was at dinner had tried to make Cap
 tain Nepcote, her lover, seem the mur- derer.
 The author has portrayed his char acters excellently, from Warrington, the
 successful true to- type professional detective, down to Philip Meredith, the young husband, a cripple, whose soul
 was torn by the anguish of finding his
 wife untrue and by hate of Nepcote
 whom he endeavored to send to the
 gallows by way of revenge.
 ''The Hand in the Dark is published
 by the John Lane company, priced al
 s2Oo, and the publishers speak truth ! when they say of it:
 "The novel, however. is more than a
 mere detective story Ii has liter
 ary quality and an atmosphere whicf
 give 1t an interest quite apart from the
 ingenious plot, and put it into the rare
 class of literary detective novels.
 Few titles fit their DOCKS as well al
 sDead Men Tell No Tales fits E. w
 Hornung's stirring story of plotting
 and adventure and sudden death on thu
 high seas and in quiet English coun
 tryside. Like the title, the book Il somewhat reminiscent of Treasure Is , land," and 1t tells rattling good stor. | in a rattling good way. Why shoul' { we poor mortals read the tame, every 5 day tales of our so- -cailed realists whei we can forget our daily troubles in we'll written yarn of the adventure : which come to so few of us in life it | self?
 Dead Men Tell No Tales" reyolve
 about one Cole, young Englishma' T who is attracted to the gold fields Q s Australia in 1895. Finding no forum e there. he sails for home in the clippe e ship Lady Jermyn. and on board fall n in love with Eva Denison, stepdaughte e of an old Portuguese named Santos ', Near the island of Ascension the shi e is burned, and after suffering tn t agonies of death, floating on the ocea : in hen coop.-here affording th t, author opportunity for some fine dc n scriptive writing.-Cole is rescued by : passing vessel. He is supposed the onl n survivor.
 Back in London, Cole, his nerve e shattered by his experiences, accept ' the recommendation of chance ac q quaintance, Squire Rattary, and got Q down to a quiet cottage in search n quiet and health. There he stumbl' n across the fact that Rattary is hal e boring Santos. the Portuguese. ar y Harris, skipper Of the Lady Jermy h who with Eva and Santos black SCI e, want escaped the burning ship. It d ,f velops that the burning Of the Lac le Jermyn was part of a plot of Sants
 :. and his companions to make away wi
 a secret cargo of gold dust. After { re adventure or two with the gang Go Il has the satisfaction of seeing II ia Is by the heels by the law.
 ly The Nfact that Eva Denison, who r- Cole loves, at the last minute goes wi a Rtttary. who was in a way drawn in ne the gangs crime innocently, saves t e- tale from a conventional ending. a ss Cole assists them to safety abroa CT Like the same authors famous "Ra 1d fles" stories, Dead Men Tell No Tale e. is a good yarn well told. and is "
 worth reading It is published by Gro n- set and Dunlap.
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