nything but smoothly. The story is full of action and
incident, and has especial interest through its warmth and color, its
pictures of life in Russia and the humanness of its characters. "A novel
of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."--_Springfield Union_.

_Appleton's Recent Books_

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THE MYSTERY OF THE SECOND SHOT.

By Rufus Gillmore. Illustrated with Pen-and-Ink Sketches by Herman
Heyer. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.37.

Bertrand Newhall, a scheming Boston banker, gets control of an old,
reliable trust company, wrecks it to bolster up another business, and
disappears. Police and reporters hunt him in vain. As Ashley, a
reporter, is "combing" the neighborhood of Newhall's home for evidence,
a young girl draws him inside a house, where he finds the banker dead, a
pistol beside him. The police call it suicide, but Ashley thinks
differently, and ultimately he solves a problem quite new in the annals
of crime.

THE NAMELESS THING. By Melville Davisson Post, author of "The Gilded
Chair," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.37.

A thrilling mystery story. The queer death of a recluse in his library
is the main theme. There is absolutely no clue, and the mystery is
doubled by the fact that, although the room is shot up and in the
greatest disorder, both windows and door are found locked on the
inside--the man dead in a pool of his own blood. The clearing up of this
mystery leads the reader through many exciting adventures. "Something
exceptional in the way of detective stories. It is such stories as these
that dignify the art of fiction writing."--_Boston Transcript_.

THE TREVOR CASE. By Natalie S. Lincoln. Illustrated by Edmund Frederick.
12mo. Cloth, $1.30 net. Postpaid, $1.42.

One of the most ingenious and exciting detective novels of recent years.
The scene is Washington. The beautiful young wife of the
Attorney-General is found murdered. A burglar is caught leaving the
house, but incriminating evidence points to other people high in
official and political life. There is a bewildering conflict of clues
and a series of startling climaxes before the case is cleared up. Not
one reader in fifty can guess the ending.

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