Author: DELANNOY, Burford. (ie Adolphus Eugene Judge).
Title: "£19,000".
Description: NY, Fenno 1900. Octavo publisher's cloth (rubbed, the white lettering on the spine mostly). Read more than once I'd guess, some blotches and smudges; an decent enough second hand copy. ¶ Likely the first edition, dated the year before the London edition. You decide on how much the choice of that amount £19,000 was designed for the bookshops of 1900. I didn't blink when the crooked lawyer cut the crooked surgeon's throat, mistaking him in the dark for the heir to that £19,000, not knowing that the heir was packed in parts in the two suitcases in the transatlantic steamer cabin. Nor when it's revealed that of course the heir was a fraud, the true heir's crooked assistant. I did blink once or twice when the unknowing, happy go lucky hero of this story debarked from the same ship carrying those two gruesome corpses and headed straight to the true heir's farm. But I was stopped dead when we're told that heir, an illiterate western farmer, lives fifty miles from New York City. I went back to make sure I hadn't misread that. From here it gets complicated and the coincidences get a bit unlikely. Still, I found it hard to believe that the second time the hero is caught in a murderous trap he seems to have forgotten his first experience a week or two earlier. Odd what we readers will and won't swallow. After our hero has been saved, in unalike ways, twice by rats, I wish Delannoy had continued the exercise and worked on how many ways a helpless captive can be saved by rats. But the most unlikely thing about this book is a website I found with a thoughtful precis/review that describes a "poignant memoir." Followed by a notable Sydney bookshop that describes this as a "compelling study for the ones fascinated by the intersections of finance, ambition, and the human situation" (sic) written by "a celebrated writer famend for his masterpiece ""The History of Landholding in England,"" is a luminary within the world of historic evaluation and literature." (also sic).
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th c20th England
Title: "£19,000".
Description: NY, Fenno 1900. Octavo publisher's cloth (rubbed, the white lettering on the spine mostly). Read more than once I'd guess, some blotches and smudges; an decent enough second hand copy. ¶ Likely the first edition, dated the year before the London edition. You decide on how much the choice of that amount £19,000 was designed for the bookshops of 1900. I didn't blink when the crooked lawyer cut the crooked surgeon's throat, mistaking him in the dark for the heir to that £19,000, not knowing that the heir was packed in parts in the two suitcases in the transatlantic steamer cabin. Nor when it's revealed that of course the heir was a fraud, the true heir's crooked assistant. I did blink once or twice when the unknowing, happy go lucky hero of this story debarked from the same ship carrying those two gruesome corpses and headed straight to the true heir's farm. But I was stopped dead when we're told that heir, an illiterate western farmer, lives fifty miles from New York City. I went back to make sure I hadn't misread that. From here it gets complicated and the coincidences get a bit unlikely. Still, I found it hard to believe that the second time the hero is caught in a murderous trap he seems to have forgotten his first experience a week or two earlier. Odd what we readers will and won't swallow. After our hero has been saved, in unalike ways, twice by rats, I wish Delannoy had continued the exercise and worked on how many ways a helpless captive can be saved by rats. But the most unlikely thing about this book is a website I found with a thoughtful precis/review that describes a "poignant memoir." Followed by a notable Sydney bookshop that describes this as a "compelling study for the ones fascinated by the intersections of finance, ambition, and the human situation" (sic) written by "a celebrated writer famend for his masterpiece ""The History of Landholding in England,"" is a luminary within the world of historic evaluation and literature." (also sic).
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th c20th England
Price: AUD 150.00 = appr. US$ 103.78 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 11207
- Book number: 11207