Livingstone, Alice. Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
7–5060.
Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero, who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the book reaches its happy ending.
“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
| − | Acad. 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w. |
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is tolerably exciting.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w. |
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could desire.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w. |