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The Secret Passage
Fergus Hume
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Excellent murder mystery. The NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…”
Excellent murder mystery. The NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…”
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He was doubtful of the wisdom of doing this. If he told what he knew, and set Jennings on the track, it might be that a scandal would arise implicating Mrs. Octagon. Not that Cuthbert cared much for her, but she was Juliet's mother, and he wanted to avert any trouble likely to cause the girl pain. A dozen times on the journey Cuthbert altered his mind. First he thought he would tell Jennings, then he decided to hold his peace. This indecision was not like him, but the case was so perplexing, and such serious issues were involved, that the young man felt thoroughly worried.
Hitherto he had seen nothing new about the case in the papers, but on reaching Swindon he bought a few and looked through them. His. . . Read More
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The Secret Passage by Fergus Hume is a classic detective novel first published in 1908. The book is set in England and follows the story of Lady Dyke, the wife of a wealthy landowner, who is found dead in her bedroom. The local police are baffled by the murder, and it falls to private detective Haga
an engaging whodunit with lots of twists
Doesn't work as a puzzle style mystery: doesn't work as a thriller
I'm having a hard time nominating appeal factors in this book. There's a lot to not like: racism, banging on about the hook noses and dark eyebrows of Jews. Good people look handsome, bad people look like bad people. Servants are inn
Classic thriller mystery with vengeance, love triangles, hidden identities and twist after plot twist. Best feature is that with all its darkness of crime, passion and death, it's actually clean enough to let your kids read, or in my case, listen to the audio. My six year old was fascinated by the s
I was pulled in at the start with appealing young woman who shows up needing a job as maid to a rather haughty old woman but the book can't stand the test of time in some measures. Its value for me is the portrayal of another era. I will probably try another book before I give up on Hume.
This one is