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...occurred a tragedy which kept her from California for more than 20 years. Alexander B. Garnett, a deranged Confederate veteran whom she had dismissed for obscenity in a whist game, attempted to shoot her in the Palace Hotel. A Major J. W. McLung who struggled with the man was shot and killed. The trial and all the life of Lily Hitchcock Coit were a boon to California journalism. On the advice of friends she went abroad, and abroad she stayed almost continuously until...
MURDER ON SHADOW ISLAND-Garnett Weston-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Multiple murders in the Thousand Islands, with discovery based on a single clue...
Readers who liked John Collier's His Monkey Wife, David Garnett's Lady into Fox, or Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue might each find something to his liking in Authoress Trevelyan's Appius & Virginia. Those who have watched babies in the nursery or monkeys in the zoo with mixed but fascinated feelings may also find it reminiscent...
...tales of America's early history can rival the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring...
...Author Garnett, like everyone else, calls his heroine Pocahontas ("bright stream between two hills"), does not give her traditional real name Matoax ("snow feather"), occasionally uses her baptismal name, Rebecca...