Gambler’s
Hope
By
J. J. Bell
ADMIRERS of “Wee Macgreegor” and kindred works will be interested to see what the talented author makes of a more ambitious theme. Subtle characterization is here combined with the thrills of an Armada treasure hunt, complicated by the misunderstandings and perplexities of three widely divergent love affairs. The scenes are laid partly in Spain, partly in the Western Isles, and what with bloodstained daggers, mysterious scraps of parchment, buried caskets, plotting priests, mysterious garden-haunting strangers, and speedy motor-boats, the reader is kept constantly guessing.
| ⁂ | “From the simplest and most ordinary of ingredients J. J. Bell can manufacture page after page of chuckles.”—The Glasgow Record. |
| “Mr. Bell’s fine powers of characterization are very evident in his work. There are few who can so happily suggest the Scot as he.”—The Notts. Journal. |
TRANSCRIBER NOTES
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