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Fiction continued. 



SE1N53TIONAL FICTION. 



The Case of Miss Elliott. By the BARONESS ORCZY, Author 

 of " The Scarlet Pimpernel," etc. With 16 Illustrations. Crown 

 8vo, cloth. 



Under this title The Man in the Corner gives a -series of masterly elucidations of 

 mysterious crimes whose authors' origins and motives have baffled justice. 



For ingenuity of construction and simplicity of denouement these "cases" rank high 

 among detective stories. 



The Threshing Floor. By J. S. FLETCHER, Author of " The 

 Arcadians," etc., etc. Crown 8vo, cloth. 



Mr. J. S. Fletcher's new novel is considered by some competent critics who have read 

 it in manuscript to be the most important contribution he has yet made to fiction. The 

 scene is laid for the most part in one of the most romantic and picturesque of the York- 

 shire Dales, and the folk-lore of the same district has been used with much imaginative 

 effect. The story deals chiefly with the final history of a race of yeomen-farmers, the 

 Challengers, who have lived on the soil for centuries, and of whom it is a matter of local 

 tradition that there never was amongst them a sober man or a virtuous woman. Its great 

 interest, however, lies in the character of Brigit Challenger, the last of her race, who, 

 having lived up to the traditions of her family as a girl, is wholly redeemed by her 

 suddenly aroused love for a strong man, and becomes a great and noble character. There 

 is much tragedy in the book and many dark passages, with not a little realism of a sort 

 unusual in English fiction, but the story ends happily and at the same time convincingly. 



By CHARLES CAREY. Crown 8vo, 



The Motor Cracksman. 



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" How, duringa week-end at Mrs. Hermann Van Suyden's country place near Wheaton- 

 on-the-Hudson, Miss Gwendolen Eustacia Bramblestone, one of the guests, while 

 innocent of the theft, became implicated in a mysterious jewel robbery ; what desperate 

 efforts were hers, for the few days following her return to town, to establish her 

 innocence and assist in the recovery of the gems, and with what results, are circum- 

 stances very entertainingly related in this narrative. The plot is most ingenious, and the 

 reader, who is kept delightfully mystified to the very end, will be quite clear as to the 

 cleverness of the characters of Miss Bramblestone and her loyal Scotch lover, Captain 

 McCracken, not to mention Harry Glenn, the 'gentleman burglar, 1 and Bender, the 

 ex-jockey detective, perhaps the most original of them all." New York Outlook. 



By FLORENCE WARDEN. Author 

 The Mis-Rule of Three," etc. 



The House by the River. 



of " The House on the Marsh," 

 Crown 8vo, cloth. 



The heroine of this sensational romance is a typewriter girl, to whom various strange 

 things happen : her husband deserts her on the wedding morning and disappears ; she 

 goes to a lonely house in the country, " Riverscourt " ; here she is shot at ; later she is 

 thrust into a wing of the house which is on fire, and is only saved by a private detective 

 living in the house disguised as a footman. Many other startling events occur ere the 

 story reaches a satisfactory conclusion. Every chapter contains a thrilling situation, and 

 the book is full of ingeniously devised surprises. With its skilfully constructed plot and 

 wealth of exciting incidents the work must count among the best things Florence Warden 

 has done, and it will undoubtedly hold her public from start to finish. 



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