A novel of American life, love and politics, giving an inside view of the average working of State political machinations and their results in business and domestic life. If you want fun, fact and fancy—buy it and read it!
New York, September 25.—An obscure editor of an obscure paper in an obscure part of the State of New York, will in a few days step into public notice through the medium of a book. It will not be an unenviable notoriety either. In “The Cleverdale Mystery” he has woven about the machine “boss” of American politics and his associates a story whose satire must strike every reader.... He presents his subject in a manner that cannot help carrying conviction. The struggle of Darius Hamblin for office, his ruin and his criminal acts, form a most conspicuous feature of the book; but underneath lies a tender love tale, with many strong situations and pathetic touches.... The publishers of “A Fool’s Errand” are bringing out “The Cleverdale Mystery,” and the latter will no doubt prove almost as popular as did the first named book.—Special Correspondence Chicago Tribune.
“Mr. Wilkins, who has had a long and practical experience of New York politics [as Editor and Committee-man], has introduced into his story the whole personal composition and paraphernalia of the political machine. Senator Hamblin, Cyrus Hart Miller, ex-Assemblyman Daly, Paddy Sullivan, Editor Rawlings and the other characters will be recognized as types, if not as portraits, of working politicians of the day; not a little skill is displayed in the construction of the plot, and as the book, unlike the average political novel, is non-partisan, it will be read with pleasure by thousands for whom ‘practical politics’ is but a name.”—New York World.
“There are dozens of other life-like political pictures: indeed the reader’s interest is held from first to last by the author’s absolute fidelity to things as they are.”—New York Herald.
“A crisp, sparkling novel * * * Destined to make a sensation.”—N. Y. News.
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PUBLISHED BY FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT,
27 Park Place, New York.