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“Hector MacQuarrie’s ‘Tahiti days’ is a much more creditable book than some other recent works on the same subject. Mr MacQuarrie writes with appreciation of the islands and the people, he writes with directness and humor, and best of all he writes like a man, not like a snickering little boy with naughty stories to tell.” E. L. Pearson
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MCSPADDEN, JOSEPH WALKER, ed. Famous detective stories. *$1.50 (2c) Crowell
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The stories selected for this collection are: The purloined letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; An interview with M. Lecoq, by Emile Gaboriau; A scandal in Bohemia, by A. Conan Doyle; The adventure of the hansom cabs, by Robert Louis Stevenson; The adventure of the toadstools, by Sax Rohmer; Gentlemen and players, by E. W. Hornung; The black hand, by Arthur B. Reeve; The grotto spectre, by Anna Katherine Green; The mystery of the steel disk, by Broughton Brandenburg; The sign of the shadow, by Maurice Le Blanc; The mystery of the steel room, by Thomas W. Hanshew.
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“There is much entertainment in J. Walker McSpadden’s eleven ‘Famous detective stories.’ One thing is certain, the detective story, entertaining as it may be, is the most thoroughly standardized product in modern literature, as bright and hard and competent as a jackknife, and hardly one iota more humane.”
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