At the Time Appointed

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Detective Fiction

Authors: Anna Maynard Barbour In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

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John Darrell
A Night's Work
'The Pines'
Life? or Death?
John Britton
Echoes from the Past
At the Mines
'Until the Day Break'
Two Portraits
The Communion of Two Souls
Impending Trouble
New Life in the Old Home
Mr. Underwood "Strikes" First
Drifting
The Awakening
The Aftermath
'She knows her Father's Will is Law'
On the 'Divide'
The Return to Camp Bird
Forging the Fetters
Two Crimes by the Same Hand
The Fetters Broken
The Mask Lifted
Foreshadowings
The 'Hermitage'
John Britton's Story
The Rending of the Veil
'As a Dream when One Awaketh'
John Darrell's Story
After Many Years
An Eastern Home
Marion Holmes
Into the Fulness of Life
A Warning
A Fiend at Bay
Senora Martinez
The Identification
Within the 'Pocket'
At the Time Appointed

"Those who remember that excellent detective story, That Mainwaring Affair will expect to find plenty of mystery and exciting incidents in A. Maynard Barbour's latest novel, called At the Time Appointed, and they will realize their expectations.The author has a certain way of forecasting events and making people utter prophetic words, all bound to find their fulfillment somewhere before the last chapter is ended, that is eminently characteristic of one who delights in the knitting and raveling of the intricate plots which are a prime necessity in a detective story. The title itself cleverly suggests a long series of events slowly converging toward some mysteriously critical moment in which all their crookedness is revealed and made straight for the delectation of at least two people; and the is exactly the kind of a title for this story of long-delayed justice and patient hoping. The main object in a story of this kind is to make the events hang together and the narration of them entertaining. Both these requisites are attained. People will be sure to read this story at one sitting, even if that involves hearing the clock strike several times after midnight and that is one test of at least one kind of excellence in a novel." (excerpts from the NY Times review of At the Time Appointed published July 18, 1903)