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3.0
Rather a "meh". This is an old-fashioned detective novel in along the lines of one of those "locked-room" mysteries. There are a few clues, none of which seems to be possible to have been effected. In the end it all comes out magically. I've read much better.
A famous young movie star (silent films in those days) starts receiving threats, some by letter, some by mysterious telegrams, some by notes dropped in her room by means seemingly impossible. One night, she observes a ghastly death's head at the side of her bed. She's going all vapors on us, and it's affecting her career.
World famous detective, Richard Duval decides to come out of retirement to look into the matter. His wife, Grace, goes with him to New York for the investigation, although Duval tells her not to help. But, she helps anyway, receives some threats of her own, and so forth. So, there are lots of scary moments and lots of impossible things happen, but in the end, it all works out and things get back to being glorious and normal...or something.
Really should be ***-, i.e. slightly worse than "average".
A famous young movie star (silent films in those days) starts receiving threats, some by letter, some by mysterious telegrams, some by notes dropped in her room by means seemingly impossible. One night, she observes a ghastly death's head at the side of her bed. She's going all vapors on us, and it's affecting her career.
World famous detective, Richard Duval decides to come out of retirement to look into the matter. His wife, Grace, goes with him to New York for the investigation, although Duval tells her not to help. But, she helps anyway, receives some threats of her own, and so forth. So, there are lots of scary moments and lots of impossible things happen, but in the end, it all works out and things get back to being glorious and normal...or something.
Really should be ***-, i.e. slightly worse than "average".
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