COBB, THOMAS. Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–5233
During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers, but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations lost and no hearts broken.
“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no account of time.”
+ − N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our sympathy.”
+ − Sat R 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment and accomplishment.”
+ − Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w