Hume, Fergus W. [Lady Jim of Curzon street.] †$1.50. Dillingham.
A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering terror by an overdose of chloral.
“It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well conceived and elaborated.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 140w.
Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.
Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put upon the wrong trail.
“There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself capable of better things.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7. 120w.