The Mystery of the Sycamore, by Carolyn Wells
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The Mystery of the Sycamore, by Carolyn Wells
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As the character of a woman may be accurately deduced from her handkerchief, so a man’s mental status is evident from the way he opens his mail.Curtis Keefe, engaged in this daily performance, slit the envelopes neatly and laid the letters down in three piles. These divisions represented matters known to be of no great interest; matters known to be important; and, third, letters with contents as yet unknown and therefore of problematical value.
The Mystery of the Sycamore, by Carolyn Wells- Published on: 2015-10-16
- Released on: 2015-10-16
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About the Author Carolyn Wells, June 18, 1862 March 26, 1942 was an American writer and poet. She was best known for her books of poetry and humor until around 1910 she read one of Anna Katherine Green’s mysteries and took up the genre. Many of her mysteries featured the detective Fleming Stone. She was married to Hadwin Houghton, heir to the Houghton-Mifflin publishing company. She was a collector of poetry by other authors, and, upon her death, she bequeathed her collection of the works of Walt Witman to the Library of Congress.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Satisfactory for lovers of old-fashioned mysteries By Librarian This 1921 novel is an old-fashioned cozy mystery requiring a high level of suspension-of-disbelief at the onset regarding the hard-to-take-seriously provisions of a partial pardon for a questionable 15-year-old criminal conviction (a matter never fully explained or disproved by tale's end); this is followed by matters of politics, family honor, blackmail--and MURDER. Then everything bogs down as confessions abound, evidence is gathered and discussed, and testimony is hashed and rehashed, first by one set of detectives and then (about midway) by detective hero Fleming Stone and his brash young partner who eventually (after much more repetitious dialogue) solve the case. You will probably guess the culprit (and what happens to the sycamore tree) long before the end, but it's still enjoyable getting there (even if the journey is a bit tedious along the way). Surprisingly, despite the aforementioned repetition, it is a quick read whose content belies its age far more than its style. For instance, the importance of social status and the role of women reflect older attitudes; nowhere is this more obvious than when one female murder suspect is assured, "Of course they rarely if ever convict a woman."The greatest obstacle to full enjoyment of this ebook is the occasionally poor scanning of this particular RSVP edition. By no means is it unreadable, but it is disconcerting to see the pronoun "I" sometimes replaced by "L," to see "as" become "a$," "gave" become "gare," "fire" become "fare," "this" become "diis," "truth" become "trut i," "go in" become "coin," "Mrs." become "Mrs1.," "go on" become "goon," and "club" become "dub" (to cite specific instances I noted). Scattered throughout some 300+ pages of text these flubs are definitely the exception rather than the rule, but they are still jarring when encountered. Toss in some period slang and dialect, and the reader may become confused as to what is deliberate and what is a mis-scan. Nevertheless, I purchased this $.99 version because I thought it had fewer scanning errors than the free, public domain version I came across online (at mnybks.net).Overall, as a lover of old mysteries, I enjoyed this one and would recommend it to others also so inclined. But if, like me, you've become tired of paying for imperfect ebooks, you may wish to see if you can tolerate the free version. (I would rate the story 4 stars, but this RSVP edition of it only 3.)ADDENDUM: Since the above was written, Wildside Press has published a Megapack containing 17 Wells stories (15 of them novels -- INCLUDING THIS ONE without the scanning errors) for the very same price ($.99) as this single novel. The Megapack is obviously the better deal.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. cliched plot--most enjoyable mystery By drkhimxz I suppose Carolyn Wells enjoyed writing this one ca. 1920. She seems to have dug back into the theater, film and novelistic literature to find herself a bundle of artifices well worn from overuse over the ages, then dared herself to make them work for her. They do, everything from being forced to build a house, part of which must be inside Massachusetts and part of which much not be inside Massachusetts to multiple pleas of guilty to the crume at the heart of the case, are joined together into one touching, romantic, mysterious melaange which only ace detective, Fleming Stone, and his apprentice sidekick, can make sense of. Hokey though the plot may be, she very skillfully captures our hearts with her young herone who does the same with every young male who comes into her vicinity.Reluctantly, in the absence of an Amazon description, I will try to give you a peek at the plot without revealing any more of it than is compatible with the code of mystery reviewers. The former governor of Massachusetts comes to visit a one time political rival to get his support for his son who is now going to run for the same office. Due to his own former shenanigans, his host and host's wife and daughter live in a house which is partly in Massachusetts and partly in Connecticut. To prevent his now hostile former rival from refusing, he tells the daughter a secret, only he knows, which can wreck her parent's lives causing them and her intolerable difficulties. As the former governor is in a final parlay with her father, who is adamantly rejecting his proposition, cries of fire ring out, it appears that the nearby garage is aflame, everyone in the house turns to attend upon the event, then, a shot rings out, one of the discussants collapses in his chair. From then on it gets complicated. While there is a rather flimsy effort made ultimately by Fleming Stone, the denouement does not disappoint. Most traditional mystery readers should enjoy this now little known bit of the mystery literature.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It was just OK By Hawaiian mama Definitely an old fashioned mystery story, with a gotcha ending. There was a lot of jazz-age vocabulary, which made some of the dialogue a little murky for me. The writing was somewhat uneven, some parts were well written and some were not so well crafted.
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