Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett

Last updated on: June 4, 2012 at 2:43 pm by Julie Davis

Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett 2012-06-04T14:43:45-05:00 Julie Davis

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A noted detective is getting ready to go to Brazil for an important job. He drops by Notre Dame where a young woman he never met says a few sentences to him that leave him pale and canceling his trip.

A young woman, deeply in love, spurns her lover’s marriage proposal because she loves him too much.

An international celebrity is found mysteriously killed in a variation of the locked room mystery.

All these events are connected and are set in 1909 Paris, where the atmosphere is romantic and mysterious and the art of detective investigation is very much to the fore in the story. This was on a list from Michael Grost’s list for Mystery Scene magazine of classic mysteries that you should read but probably haven’t. Here is a piece about this book which I believe was written in 1907.

It is a locked room mystery, which I normally do not like, but got hooked by the way the author slowly uncovered layers truth behind the mysterious situations. It has the effect of a book containing one cliff-hanger after another which I found irresistible. It all added up to a splendid plot and story telling. Truly this is the story of a master detective pitted against a master criminal, all wound around a tale of love and friendship. I got this from the library but I’d bet it is available free at Project Gutenberg. I plan on reading this on my Forgotten Classics podcast.

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