Dead Men Money edition by J S Joseph Smith Fletcher Literature Fiction eBooks
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A good plot but told with the sensationalism of the times, many untold horrors awaited me, if I had known the terrors I would face, I curse the day these disasters befell me, etc. It's hard to see how all the separate threads will. connect, and a few are based on conjecture at the end. I highly recommend this book and would have given it five stars, but there was a lot of repetition, both of the sensations mentioned earlier, but also Hugh told one person who thought they should tell someone else and led to telling yet another. Hugh Moneylaws is a law clerk whose mother took in a boarder. The boarder grew ill and asked him to keep a secret appointment where Hugh discovered that man murdered. He happened to catch sight of another man who he assumed was innocently passing by. That's not a spoiler as Hugh repeatedly says if only I had told what I had seen. I had the basic plot figured out fairly early, but there were a great many additional people and events brought into the story before the end.Product details
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Dead Men Money edition by J S Joseph Smith Fletcher Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A wonderful and gently twisting take of intrigue! It is refreshing in its old-school style. Easy to read. Easy to follow. Don't miss this one!
This was an good mystery (written many years ago) that kept my interest with plenty of twists and turns. I expect to re-read some day.
The story line was well written. It kept you guessing. My only problem was Maisie. I kind had it figured out but the actual turn of events caught me off guard. Good read based on the English side of the Scotland border. Language was G+.mp
I enjoyed this book immensely. It cleansed my palate of the modern, and therefore often rough or crude, books I more typically read, taking me back to an innocent time when a mystery was a pure mystery. I have already purchased another Fletcher book and promise myself I will keep a book from the "Golden Age" like this classic specimen on my reader at all times. I want to return to the root of the genre at regular intervals from now on. Many thanks to those who have made theses classics available to us.
These vintage mysteries are always interesting to me. At times a bit overwritten by our day, but enjoyable with a little patience. Occasionally a little loose end or coincidence that may seem strained. But, if you like the old timers, this is a good one.
I went four stars on this one. Good plot, with excellent plot development, and some very good character development, particularly with the minor characters. There is a rather high body count for a story from this time frame. The story moves along briskly, with lots of twists and turns, and, a rather surprising ending that you probably won't see coming. As with most novels from that era the plot in the end seems a little contrived, but not nearly so contrived as many novels of that era tended to be. The story starts out with a man taking rooms at the lodging house run by our hero's widowed mother. There is a murder, then the story really starts to take off and the mystery is on. I think this was probably the 1st or 2nd Fletcher novel I read, and it is a very good example of his style of story telling.
Fletcher, like E. P. Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace, looms above the run of the mill hacks of that era. Their stories are original. They move the plot along nicely, and they don't get caught up in so much of that upstairs/downstairs schism, and M'Lord this and M'Lady that, so common to fiction from the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. They also don't have some super sleuth wrapping everything up in the end so that it all seems so simple to the likes of Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. In many cases I see the seeds of modern crime and mystery fiction in the writing of Fletcher. He tells the story through action and dialog, and he doesn't impose an omniscience upon the reader to guide them along through the slow spots and fill in the holes in the plot. After reading this I suggest reading The Middle Temple Murder to fill out your appreciation of Fletcher's style and approach.
I got this one for free on , all I was out on this story was the time I spent reading it, and I thought that it was time very well spent. If you like a fast paced story with an original plot line I think you will enjoy this.
I discovered this accomplished vintage writer through recommendations. Although he's little-known today, J. S. Fletcher wrote over 100 detective novels. The immense popularity of his work encouraged him to be prolific.
Fletcher weaves a dark and complex mystery, and gives us a smart, courageous, warm-hearted hero who experiences various adventures and horrors. The hero of this tale is Hugh Moneylaws, nineteen-year-old clerk to the clever and fatherly lawyer Mr. Lindsey.
Hugh finds a dead body while performing a mysterious errand for a mysterious stranger in a lonely spot late at night. This is just the beginning of a sinister train of events. The very gripping plot encompasses all sorts of puzzling behavior on the part of many people, from the local baronet to the local marine store dealer. There are mysterious appearances and disappearances, carefully planned frauds and spontaneous murders, and dramatic confrontations with thoroughly bad people. Hugh escapes death more than once.
The action centers in a little English town on the border of Scotland. There are lots of great characters. Some have stereotypical Scottish traits. The lawyer is shrewd and observant and keeps his own counsel while getting to the bottom of the crimes. Hugh's widow mother can be sharp-tongued and hates to see money spent. And there's an element of romance. Hugh's devotion to his spunky sweetheart is quite touching.
People have wonderful names, like Moneylaws, Gilverthwaite, Portlethorp and Elphinstone. Although there are motorcars around and lots of riding of bicycles, the story is redolent with the atmosphere of old England.
I loved Dead Men's Money and expect to be reading more by this obscure British novelist.
This Forgotten Books edition is pretty good for a digital reprint. There are some cut-off letters initially, but you can still easily make out the words.
A good plot but told with the sensationalism of the times, many untold horrors awaited me, if I had known the terrors I would face, I curse the day these disasters befell me, etc. It's hard to see how all the separate threads will. connect, and a few are based on conjecture at the end. I highly recommend this book and would have given it five stars, but there was a lot of repetition, both of the sensations mentioned earlier, but also Hugh told one person who thought they should tell someone else and led to telling yet another. Hugh Moneylaws is a law clerk whose mother took in a boarder. The boarder grew ill and asked him to keep a secret appointment where Hugh discovered that man murdered. He happened to catch sight of another man who he assumed was innocently passing by. That's not a spoiler as Hugh repeatedly says if only I had told what I had seen. I had the basic plot figured out fairly early, but there were a great many additional people and events brought into the story before the end.
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