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Vanderdecken

H. De Vere Stacpoole

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .George, on parting from Hank the day before, had dined with some friends at the Palatial. Released from the hypnotism of the town lot speculator, he had begun to cool ever so slightly over the Vanderdecken business. The cooling had gone on during sleep. Awakened, an hour before his usual time, to the ordinary facts of life, his feet were frankly cold. Shultz, the man he had dined with at the Palatial, was going off to the Rockies on a shooting expedition and had asked him to join. There would be plenty of fun and plenty of sport—yet he had to refuse.

But there was something more than that, Farintosh. The absolutely sane and correct Farintosh acted as an underscore to the whole of this business. Farintosh, whose lips rarely said more than “Yes, sir,” or “No, sir,” was voiceful in all sorts of subtle ways, as, for instance, when he had announced a “gentleman of the name of Fisher.”

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Community Reviews

2.5 Stars.

Not Stacpoole's best by any stretch. Story of two men who, for the sheer adventure of it, attempt to find and capture a pirate called Vanderdecken and his hidden stash.

I think as a movie it would do better, but as a novel it lacked something in depth. The plot twists were guessed early on