An absorbing detective story of modern New York, especially original inits plot and the fact that a young lawyer does the detective work; theconclusion is most surprising.
"The author has stepped at once to the front ranks among Americanwriters of detective tales ... a yarn with genuine thrills," (andcomparing it with some of the most popular detective stories) "theEnglish is better and cleaner cut, the love passages are never maudlin,there is throughout more dignity and sense, and the book showsa far wider knowledge of the logical technique of detectivefiction."--_Bookman._
_N. Y. Sun_: "Distinctly an interesting story--one of the sort that thereader will not lay down before he goes to bed."
_N. Y. Post_: "By comparison with the work of Anna Katharine Green ...it is exceptionally clever ... told interestingly and well."
_N. Y. Tribune_: "The Holladay Case was a capital story of crime andmystery. In the Marathon Mystery the author is in even firmer command ofthe trick. He is skillful in keeping his reader in suspense, and everyelement in it is cunningly adjusted to preserving the mystery inviolateuntil the end."
_Boston Transcript_: "The excellence of its style, Mr. Stevensonapparently knowing well the dramatic effect of fluency and brevity, andthe rationality of avoiding false clues and attempts unduly to mystifyhis readers."
_Boston Herald_: "This is something more than an ordinary detectivestory. It thrills you and holds your attention to the end. But besidesall this the characters are really well drawn and your interest in theplot is enhanced by interest in the people who play their partstherein."
_Town and Country_: "The mystery defies solution until the end. Thefinal catastrophe is worked out in a highly dramatic manner."
The Holladay Case
With Frontispiece by ELIOT KEEN.
A tale of a modern mystery of New York and Etretat that has beenrepublished in England and Germany.
This is one of the new and artistic style of detective stories, somewhatin the vein of Conan Doyle. The tale begins with the finding of a NewYork banker stabbed to death in his office. Suspicion falls on hisdaughter. A kidnapping and pursuit over seas follow. The story containsa minimum of horror and a maximum of ingenuity.
"Almost instantly commands the reader's attention."--_Critic._
_N. Y. Tribune_: "Professor Dicey recently said, 'If you like adetective story take care you read a good detective story.' This is agood detective story, and it is the better because the part of the herois not filled by a member of the profession.... The reader will not wantto put the book down until he has reached the last page. Mostingeniously constructed and well written into the bargain."