Great premise: Guy looses gal to aunt who is training her to be medium. He fights back with his own 'seer'.'
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Mouse in the Mountain by Norbert Davis
- Doan is a detective and Carstairs his enormous canine companion (don't call him a "pet"), and in this first hard-boiled adventure they travel to Mexico, along with an heiress, a revolutionary, an artist, and more than a few mysteries.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Holocaut House by Norbert Davis
Doan, the "hero" of this story is a
small-time detective with a dry, sardonic wit, a huge Great Dane, and
the ability to defend himself quite well if the situation demands it. In
Holocaust House he is given the job of protecting a young heiress who
is on the verge of inheriting millions.
The Treasure Train by Arthur B. Reeve
A railroad Vice President and and his
chauffeur have sudden and mysterious seizures on the way to work; a
family in New York city undergoes an epidemic of beri-beri; the American
consul in the Virgin Islands collapses and dies for no apparent reason;
a Wall Street speculator is apparently stabbed to death--with a rubber
dagger. Who other than Craig Kennedy, armed with his knowledge of
chemistry, technology and Freudian psychology could solve these
mysteries?
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Nick Carter stands for an interesting
detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly
good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote
these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was
concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his
hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of troubles and landed the
criminal just where he should be—behind the bars.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The blurb says:
Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The
fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due
to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no
other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of
new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all
sorts of trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should
be—behind the bars.
The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.Saturday, November 30, 2019
THIS book introduced to
the public a new Master of Detective Fiction, and Mr. Crofts is now a
very famous name indeed to the many enthusiastic students of
detective novels. It has all the great virtues; a mysterious murder
cunningly conceived and carried out; the strongest suspicion
ingeniously thrown on an innocent man; a subtle alibi brilliantly
shattered by an unfaltering process of analysis. The book is flawless
in design and presents an intellectual problem of supreme interest.
The lover of detective stories can want nothing better. As the
Outlook said, “In construction and invention Mr. Crofts has
no living equal.”
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