Review of The Blue Talisman

04 Sep 2019 - Courtney Floyd

Published in The Athenaeum (27 Apr. 1912)

The sinister reputation of ‘the Blue Talisman’ is amply justified as the story proceeds, and the murder of its possessor is but the prelude to a series of sensational events. The author has apparently aimed at providing excitement at the expense of verisimilitude, and his characters are those of conventional melodrama.