Bartlett Mystery

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Romance, Crime & Mystery Fiction

Authors: Louis Tracy In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Bartlett Mystery

Chapter 1 - A Gathering at a Club
Chapter 2 - A Daring Crime
Chapter 3 - Winifred Bartlett Hears Something
Chapter 4 - Further Surprises
Chapter 5 - Prosecutors
Chapter 6 - Brother Ralph
Chapter 7 - Still Mere Mystery
Chapter 8 - A Dream Face
Chapter 9 - The Flight
Chapter 10 - Carshaw Takes Up the Case
Chapter 11 - The Two Cars
Chapter 12 - The Pursuit
Chapter 13 - The New Link
Chapter 14 - A Subtle Attack
Chapter 15 - The Visitor
Chapter 16 - Winifred Drifts
Chapter 17 - All Roads Lead to East Orange
Chapter 18 - The Crash
Chapter 19 - Clancy Explains
Chapter 20 - In the Toils
Chapter 21 - Mother and Son
Chapter 22 - The Hunt
Chapter 23 - "He Who Fights and Runs Away --"
Chapter 24 - In Full Cry
Chapter 25 - Flank Attacks
Chapter 26 - The Biter Bit
Chapter 27 - The Settlement

This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no cheap plot-twists, two full-fledged sub/urban battles and some real surprises.

Winifred Bartlett, a beautiful and poor orphan, suddenly finds herself homeless and out of a job. Prince Charming (nee Rex Carshaw) comes on to her by accident and begins to take an interest. As strange, apparently unconnected disasters continue to batter poor Winnie, Rex and two police detectives (the most interesting characters in the book) probe the causes and forces threatening the dear girl's well-being and, ultimately, her very life and liberty. It turns out that it is Winifred's close resemblance to her mother, who died long ago in Vermont, that threatens certain powerful interests in contemporary (1913) New York.

An unusually large cast of bad guys - each with a different motive for getting rid of Winifred - includes a US Senator, and unsuccessful book binding supervisor, an influential NY society belle, and gun-slinging Western gangster "Mick the Wolf.” The mystery becomes increasingly complex with every new assault on the girl's well-being, and the efforts of the NY police and the ever-faithful Rex. - Summary by Kirsten Wever