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Title: The Queen Against Owen

Author: Allen Upward

Release Date: January 10, 2010 [EBook #30910]

Language: English

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THE QUEEN AGAINST OWEN

BY

ALLEN UPWARD

AUTHOR OF 'THE PRINCE OF BALKISTAN'

_A NEW EDITION_

London
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1895

_OPINIONS OF THE PRESS_

ON

THE QUEEN AGAINST OWEN.

'An unmistakable success. Regarded simply as a story, we have not for
a long while read anything more intensely dramatic. It would compel
notice for the mere manner of its telling. Not often has an author
who has boldly departed from the traditional lines of the writer of
fiction so completely vindicated his method. There is high quality
in this book, with its vivid glimpses of life, and its clever
characterization.... Altogether, a notable book; and if its popularity
be at all commensurate with its merits, it will have a great
vogue.'--_Sun._

'The narrative never flags.... A realistic representation of a
criminal trial.'--_Athenaeum._

'Lovers of exciting fiction, powerful, original, and dramatic, should
read "The Queen against Owen." Narrative after narrative, somewhat in
the Wilkie Collins manner, draws you on until the mystery that
surrounds the crime--which remains a mystery almost to the very
end--disappears, and then you draw a breath of relief, but not
before.'--_Sporting Life._

To

CLEMENT HARLEY DOWNS

ESQUIRE

THIS SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS KIND SERVICES IS TENDERED BY THE
AUTHOR

NOTE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

I take the opportunity of a second edition of this little sketch to
point out a rather curious fact in connection with the numerous
comments which were made in the press on the evidence presented
against the heroine. My object in writing the story was, naturally, to
so balance the evidence as to leave it open