+ Sat R 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w Spec 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“A detective story of exceptional merit.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p677 N 20 ’19 170w
JEPSON, EDGAR. Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield
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Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board. But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s dancing.
“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom into popular ballerinas.”
− + Ath p475 O 8 ’20 130w Booklist 16:282 My ’20
“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”