+ N Y Times 25:18 Jl 11 ’20 1550w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p159 Mr 4 ’20 80w
“We are grateful to Mr McGovern for this book, but we should have been more so if he had facilitated its use as a work of reference by the addition of an index. We should be still more grateful to him, if, instead of going over old ground that is open to anyone, he used his very peculiar qualifications in a field that is altogether unexplored.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p247 Ap 22 ’20 850w
MACGRATH, HAROLD. Drums of jeopardy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
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The heroine of this story is Kitty Conover; it is hard to say whether “Cutty,” war-correspondent and secret service agent, or Johnny Two-Hawks, is the hero. They both aspire to be, but as Cutty is handicapped by an extra score or so of years, he is at some disadvantage. The theme of the story is Cutty’s attempt to capture a band of “Reds” and to get possession of the “Drums of jeopardy,” a pair of enormously valuable emeralds. Johnny Two-Hawks comes into it because he is fleeing from this band of “Reds” and at one time possesses the drums of jeopardy. Kitty tries to help them both, rather blindly at first, succeeds in getting herself kidnapped and held for ransom and is finally rescued by both heroes. The leader of the Reds is killed and the end of the story leaves Cutty in possession of the drums of jeopardy.
Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21 + Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 180w
MACGRATH, HAROLD. Man with three names. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
20–26106