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January 29, 2014
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/lequeux.ht... free online #16 for flavor of text, but pictures are the prime 5*. Phrasing easy to skim and still absorb flavor, feel. By nature, short stories condense, sacrifice character to plot.
Sketches are like companion https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... though not so dark, less shocked confrontation and discovery like https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Mostly full-length posed portraits. Artist signatures illegible. Even if faces are plastic/china doll-like, flower missing from button-hole, nose is properly small, dresses are opulently draped, millinery is magnificent, furnishings ornate. , only credits #1 suicide to Arthur Jule Goodman, #6 phone to A. Kemp Tebby, #15 smoker to J. Finnemmore, #22 red to Max Cowper.
The sight of a by-gone century and lifestyle is irreplaceable, even when plots improbable. Some fonts have ornate initial letters. Opening precision can be inexact #6 "exactly at eleven o'clock on the night of December 30th last winter" p 89. Summaries would be shorter without names. But what names? Amid ubiquitous John and Mary are amazingly long-gone patronyms.
"Do you think anything that is possible for a man is impossible for a woman?" p 395 has potential. But whatever gender narrator, Mrs Meade writes horror, at least with Eustace. Overall I prefer the drawings and flavor, ambience, to substance.
4* 1 Spawn of fortune by Jacques Futrelle - Arthur Brackenbridge buys gun, one-way ticket on train to Earl's Court to suicide until rude stranger intervenes.
2* 2 Further adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown
*1 Silkworms of Florence - Vicar burns title clue "weak pun" (what is pun?) from 1805 disgraced mayor and spies on Pringle locating treasure.
Sketches are like companion https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... though not so dark, less shocked confrontation and discovery like https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Mostly full-length posed portraits. Artist signatures illegible. Even if faces are plastic/china doll-like, flower missing from button-hole, nose is properly small, dresses are opulently draped, millinery is magnificent, furnishings ornate. , only credits #1 suicide to Arthur Jule Goodman, #6 phone to A. Kemp Tebby, #15 smoker to J. Finnemmore, #22 red to Max Cowper.
The sight of a by-gone century and lifestyle is irreplaceable, even when plots improbable. Some fonts have ornate initial letters. Opening precision can be inexact #6 "exactly at eleven o'clock on the night of December 30th last winter" p 89. Summaries would be shorter without names. But what names? Amid ubiquitous John and Mary are amazingly long-gone patronyms.
"Do you think anything that is possible for a man is impossible for a woman?" p 395 has potential. But whatever gender narrator, Mrs Meade writes horror, at least with Eustace. Overall I prefer the drawings and flavor, ambience, to substance.
4* 1 Spawn of fortune by Jacques Futrelle - Arthur Brackenbridge buys gun, one-way ticket on train to Earl's Court to suicide until rude stranger intervenes.
2* 2 Further adventures of Romney Pringle by Clifford Ashdown
*1 Silkworms of Florence - Vicar burns title clue "weak pun" (what is pun?) from 1805 disgraced mayor and spies on Pringle locating treasure.
July 11, 2017
This book features 46 short magazine stories from the turn of the 20th century. Three of the stories are by A.C. Doyle himself: The Holocaust of Manor Place, The Love Affair Of George Vincent Parker, The Debatable Case Of Mrs. Emsley. Other authors include Brett Harte, Baroness Orczy and the book also includes two episodes of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, as well as several Raffles episodes.
The black and white period illustrations from the magazines that published these stories are evocative of the Victorian era related in them.
The black and white period illustrations from the magazines that published these stories are evocative of the Victorian era related in them.
February 22, 2025
A mixed bag, as all collections are. But there's enough good stuff here for me to pass over the rubbish in silence.
June 8, 2017
Read-readable — and I do.
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