Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). [Millionaire baby.] $1.50. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes. The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
| + — | Acad. 68: 568. My. 27, ‘05. 340w. | |
“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the interest.”
| + + | Arena. 33: 340. Mr. ‘05. 260w. |
“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully maintained.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 150w. |
“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside until you know the whole story.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense it is worthless.”