Castle Craneycrow

Castle Craneycrow

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Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

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1902

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Castle Craneycrow

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The story revolves round the abduction of a young American woman, her imprisonment in an old castle and the adventures created through her rescue.

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Well-to-do New Yorker Phil Quentin reencounters Dorothy Garrison, the woman with whom he'd had a boy-girl romance. His love reignites, but she — a beautiful heiress — is already engaged to an Italian prince. Quentin knows him as a man who, under another name, in another country, once stood trial for murder. The prince is by no means happy with the emergence of his rival, less still of one who knows his past, and takes steps to discourage him ... permanently. The novel starts off oddly, with the history of Quentin's servant, so you think it's going to be another sort of book until the romance appears. Then it turns into a thrilling adventure, not withstanding that Dorothy is something of a ninny."Brewster's Millions" and "The Husbands of Edith" had me thinking of McCutcheon as a kind of second-rate P.G. Wodehouse, but when not trying to be funny, he was clearly capable of much better stuff.