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La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia

SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
ON
"The Carbuncle Clue."

BY FERGUS HUME.
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.

"Everywhere throughout its source there is evident the samewonderful originality that distinguished his first success. Itis as clever a piece of detective story writing as 'The LeavenworthCase.'"--Dundee Advertiser.

"To say that Mr. Fergus Home's 'The Carbuncle Clue' is one of his beststories hardly does justice to its merits. Very clever must be thereader who, in the earlier chapters, finds even a faint clue in thislabyrinth of crime and intrigue."--Morning Post.

"It is in all truth a mystery, and one which when dipped into will befollowed with the greatest interest in all its maze of detail. Thereis scarcely one of the opening chapters that does not reveal some new,startling, and apparently inexplicable fact."--The Scotsman.

"Among the more successful of the purveyors of the detective order offiction is Mr. Fergus Hume. All who love mystery will find his laststory exactly to their taste."--Publishers' Circular.

"We were becoming afraid that Mr. Hume was over-producing--a feargreatly allayed by 'The Carbuncle Clue.' Mr. Hume keeps his story wellin hand, and although the mystery changes its aspect many times, henever allows it to drag; and in the end he springs the secret onus in a way that effectually discounts any feeling of superioritywe may have cherished as to our powers of playing the amateurdetective."--Literary World.

"Apart from the author's reputation, 'The Carbuncle Clue,' standing onits own undoubted merits, will commend itself to those of the readingpublic who can admire a clever plot, with just a sufficient dash ofsensationalism. The skilful manner in which the plot is evolved andthe machinations of the conspirators disclosed, place the work on amuch higher level than the average detective story."--ChesterCourant.

"A capital story, one that will hold its reader enthralled to the end.The clever detective--Mr. Fanks, alias Rixton--is, we think greatlysuperior to Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his many followers, inasmuch as heis not omniscient, and is quite capable of making mistakes and gettingexasperated over them. He follows the slender clue with the sagacityand patience of a bloodhound, and the mystery is so well maintainedthat its solution only breaks on us as we turn the last page.--PallPall Gazette.

"Mr. Hume is great in mysteries, but almost excels himself in thecomplications of this carbuncle clue. It is brightly and brisklywritten, and goes on without a hitch or momentary loss of interestfrom beginning to end. The actors are admirably described. It is theordinary man and woman that Mr. Hume brings on the stage, and he pullsthe wires so deftly that it is with a sigh of regret that we close thebook. The publishing world has been inundated with detective storiesrecently, but if all were so good as 'The Carbuncle Clue' there wouldnot be much reason to complain of the fashion."--Manchester Courier.

"One of the best detective stories that have appeared for a longtime."--Manch