Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney as Harry Spats, who combines the business of a village haberdasher with that of a king of the dope-sellers. It is worth a vialt to "The Scarlet Fox" to see Mr. Sweeney and Miss Chambers turn the vivid dross of a gaudy melodrama into the real theatrical doing...
...word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
...MELODRAMA...
Another able melodrama: DRACULA...
...MELODRAMA...