Mr. Fergus Hume has no idea of sbandosing any of the methods which the publication of "The Mystery of a into @ sudden celebrity on
Hansom Cab." Twenty years alter the appearance of that first success, we find again in The Crowned Skull the same ly (there gratuitous cruelty which distresses reader of The Fruit of the Tree) but it is sad and we see "no way through the thorns that frighten us." The whole story is slight, hardly more than sketch-would but turn his attention to the characters who may be allowed, without:
haman impossibility, to "get each
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