“An excellent story for young people.”
+ Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 40w
RAINE, WILLIAM MACLEOD.[[2]] Big-town round-up. il *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–19181
This is the story of one of those bronzed, big-hearted westerners, whom fiction so often presents to us riding over the plains of Arizona. But in this novel, Clay Lindsay is functioning in the very heart of civilization, in no less a metropolis than New York city, but the traditional characteristics of the wild-west story are all here. There is the bad-man, Clay’s natural enemy, personified in Jerry Durand; there is the beautiful heroine, Beatrice Whitford; and there is the weak easterner, Clay’s rival in love, Clarendon Bromfield. All these and various minor characters play their accepted parts in the drama of romance and gun-play, with the inevitable happy ending for the deserving.
“Full of exciting situations, profanity and crude humor.”
+ − Booklist 17:160 Ja ’21
“They used to put these stories into paper covers with the luridest scene in red and yellow on the jacket. Now—but it’s Diamond Dick just the same, sandpapered a little, but otherwise not much changed.”
− N Y Evening Post p10 N 27 ’20 190w