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The Brand of Silence

Harrington Strong

Book Overview: 

The Brand of Silence – A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years during which he sought his fortune. But he finds New York a very changed place, and even more distressing, he finds that his old friends are now turning their backs on him, his old haunts no longer welcome him, and there seems to be a conspiracy against him.

Why can’t he receive service in hotels, restaurants, and theaters that he once frequented? Who is working against him? And just as importantly, why? And what is the meaning of the notes he receives which remind him of “retribution”?

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .What did George Lerton know that he refused to tell? Why should there be powerful enemies? He knew of no reason in the world.

"He's dead eager to get me out of town," Prale mused. "There's something behind it, all right."

CHAPTER VI MURK—AND MURDER

Instinct, intuition, or some similar faculty caused Prale to turn off the Avenue eastward toward the river. He was not angry now. His mind was in action. He had convinced himself that there was something behind all this, and he was eager for the solution.

Those mysterious warnings had begun on board ship, he remembered. The piece of paper Kate Gilbert had dropped, and which he had picked up, had writing similar to the messages he had received. He would have to engage Jim Farland, he told himself, and learn a few things concerning Miss Kate Gilbert.

Had the journey because of ill health been a subterfuge? Had Kate Gilbert gone to Honduras to watch him? If she had, what was . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Excellent mystery novel

This mystery kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time! Thrilling and clean, and I really liked the characters, particularly Sydney and Murk.

The summary alone was so very intriguing to me. When listening I was kept in suspense all the way through. While I thought I knew who was behind the conspiracy, & was right, there was no way to figure out why. There's also a murder. Are both related or not? Is the main character really a good honest

Wow! This book could have been written today instead of one hundred years ago.

Johnston McCulley (1883-1958) wrote many novels across numerous genre and under a variety of pseudonyms such as Harrington Strong, Raley Bries, George Drayne, Monic Morton, Rowena Raley, Walter Pierson and so on. McCulley

Harrington Strong was a pseudonym of Johnston McCulley, who created not just Zorro but several other continuing pulp characters as well (Black Star, the Crimson Clown, Thubway Tham, etc.) The Brand of Silence isn't part of an ongoing series and in fact doesn't even had a single lead. What it does of

Enjoyable "Detective" + Pulp adventure by Johnston, although, yeah, it's not great literature. However, it is a good story and has an interesting premise. It's easy to get drawn into the book and wonder why this personal shunning is happening to the hero of the story. I think if the story and dialog

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