“Mr. Carling has a surprising faculty of making it appear that things ought to have happened as he says they did, and as long as the book is being read he even succeeds in making it appear that they did happen so,” says the St. Louis Star.
“The Shadow of the Czar” fairly captivated two countries. In England the Newcastle Daily Journal says it “transcends in interest ‘The Prisoner of Zenda.’”
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers
BOSTON, MASS.
A New Romance by the Author of
“The Shadow of the Czar”
THE VIKING’S SKULL
By JOHN R. CARLING
Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. 350 pages. 12mo. $1.50
A tale full of stirring surprises.—Philadelphia North American.
A capital tale of mystery and detection of crime and retribution. The ingenuity with which its intricacies are threaded is really wonderful.—New York Times Saturday Review of Books.
It is a remarkably lively story, with a novel mystery, wrought out of old Norse history, but the scene is modern England for the most part, and all the characters belong to to-day.—Chicago Record-Herald.