Word: storiesâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...SINGING BONE? R. Austin Freeman?Dodd Mead ($1.75). Four short detective stories???the first three told from an unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...
...Author. Herbert George Wells is, probably, the best known living writer of English. The list of his published books includes over 50 titles? novels?books of short stories??? fantastic and imaginative romances?books on social, religious...
...GENTLEMEN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES???I. A. Bunin?Seltzer ($1.50). The title story of this volume (translated from the Russian) relates the grim history of an American millionaire who has made his money and in company with his wife and daughter travels expensively all over the south of Europe. He has the best of service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried...
LITTLE LIFE STORIES???Sir Harry Johnston?Macmillan ($2.00). Sir Harry, explorer, scientist and novelist, has at last elected to stand on his own literary feet. And he is much more successful than when he chose simply to bask in the light of the illustrious?as in The Gay-Dombeys and Mrs. Warren's Daughter. He gives us here a succession of little skeletons, grinning and staring. They are little not in their power but in Sir Harry's manner toward them. He is like a good-natured child playing with dynamite. Bitter, ironic outlines these, which are passed...