The book reads like an extract from life, and the whole story is vivid and realistic with descriptions of the life of a party of gentlemen adventurers who are willing to run great odds for great gains.
There is also “a woman in the case,” Margaret Laurie, who proves a delightful, reliant, and audacious heroine.
Miss Frances Baird, Detective
By Reginald Wright Kauffman, author of “Jarvis of Harvard,” etc.
Library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.25
A double robbery and a murder have given Mr. Kauffman the material for his clever detective story. Miss Baird tells how she finally solved the mystery, and how she outwitted the other detective at work on the case, by her woman’s intuition and sympathy, when her reputation for keenness and efficiency was hanging in the balance.
The Idlers
By Morley Roberts, author of “Rachel Marr,” “Lady Penelope,” etc.
With frontispiece in colour by John C. Frohn $1.50