Number Seventeen, by Louis Tracy
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Number Seventeen, by Louis Tracy
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"Taxi, sir? Yes, sir. No. 4 will be yours."A red - faced, loud-breathing commissionaire, engaged in the lucrative task of pocketing sixpences as quickly as he could summon cabs, vanished in a swirl of macintoshes and umbrellas.
Number Seventeen, by Louis Tracy- Published on: 2015-11-18
- Released on: 2015-11-18
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About the Author Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Another fabulous Louis Tracy mystery including White & Furneaux By Christy M. I adore Louis Tracy books and cannot get enough of them; and while he did not write as many White & Furneaux (the two detectives in the novel) fortunately he was prolific. This is a fabulous tale of evil, danger, intrigue and, in the end, love where the writer finds himself immersed in a murder after overhearing a man and his daughter speak outside of a theater. The man says that he's going one place but later the hero, Francis Theydon, sees the same man in the street below his apartment, and the man goes into #17. And the next day the owner of the flat is found murdered! Francis has been invited for dinner the following evening and to his surprise he is meeting that same man. White and Furneaux are a curious pair, each balancing their skills off each other. There's plenty of danger and intrigue as those on a death list receive little ivory skulls....who will be next! If you love the stories and language of the early 20th century, try this nifty mystery. I'm sure you'll love it!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. White & Furneaux: A Scotland Yard odd couple By Paul Roberge A young writer in London finds himself accidentally mixed up in the case of a brutal murder with exotic clues (joss sticks and ivory skulls). The plot's a suspenseful one and moves at a quick pace. The "detecting" is done in part by the writer (whose partly motivated by a love interest) and two Scotland Yard men: White and Furneaux. White is the stolid and earnest policeman while Furneaux--a native of the Isle of Jersey--is imaginative, quick, explosive. The odd-couple nature of their relationship as they work together in a highlight of the novel, and I wished there had been more of it. A Chicagoan names Handyside also joins in the battle against the bad guys (Handyside, the handy side-kick???). He's a bighearted, uncomplicated, resourceful, even heroic American of the "innocents abroad" type.One aspect of the novel that dates it is the Victorian/Edwardian British male's helplessness before the mysteries of a woman's sensibilities or an "Oriental's" mind. The Chinese often appear in thrillers of the period (most prominent of all as Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu), and they're typically portrayed as over-subtle and inscrutable by contrast to plain-spoken Englishmen. Even the law-abiding Asians are seen as caricatures, possessing age-old and mysterious modes of thought that--innocent as the character may be--are alien and automatically suspect.With regards to "Number Seventeen" as a work of detective literature, this racial stereotyping diminishes the novel by introducing caricatures instead of real people. It smells of fantasy lit. Tracy might have brought in a gang of enigmatic elves instead to the same effect.The issue of class and wealth also appears. It's no spoiler that the middle-class hero gets the high-society girl, but Tracy finds it necessary to mention incidentally that the hero's brother-in-law is in line for a knighthood--so as to make the coupling more credible to his Victorian readers, perhaps?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. and I love mysteries from this era By James Gary First Louis Tracy novel I've read. Impressed, and I love mysteries from this era. You have the heroic young leads, romance, action, and touches of wit with two mismatched Scotland yard inspectors forming the backbone of the novel. I understand Tracy used the same two inspectors, in the same way, in other mysteries, just the young folk change. I'll be looking them up. Well written and a unique idea for me. Highly recommended.
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