+ − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 380w
“Readers of detective tales will find this book of absorbing interest; the plot is well developed and the dénouement startling. Decidedly, Mr Chipperfield knows how to write a detective story. ‘Unseen hands’ is one of the best of its kind.”
+ N Y Times p29 Ag 15 ’20 350w
“The climax is not unexpected, yet possesses the elements of a surprise. The story is entertaining of its type.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 130w
O’SULLIVAN, MRS DENIS. Mr Dimock. *$2 (2½c) Lane
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Horace Dimock, a prosperous American business man and a notorious philanderer, spends much of his time in England with his English friends, the center of whom are Lady Freke and the widowed Crystal McClinton, sisters and of American birth. To Crystal he is even secretly married. As the story opens he is coming to England, at the appeal of the sisters, to rescue his ward, Daphne O’Brien, daughter of a former love, from the nunnery. He falls violently in love with Daphne at first sight. His ardor diverts her from her purpose, but she turns from him as soon as she learns of his treachery to Crystal, whom he now seeks to divorce. At the end we find him sans Crystal and Daphne, and reduced to the goodnatured tolerance of the friends who had once admired him. Much of international, post war interest and of the havoc of war plays in the story and Daphne, the would-be nun, becomes the happy wife of a wonderful young Serbian hero.
“There is workmanlike writing in the book and there are moments of some emotional power. We object to a certain romantic staginess of the war heroes.”