“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s sense of probability.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w. |
Davies, A. C. Fox-. Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.
7–27614.
Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold; it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w. | |
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w. |
“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production of the real criminal.”
| − | Spec. 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w. |