Talk:The Whispering Lane

Reviews

 * The Saturday Review, 25 July 1925: It is a good many years since "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" captured the British and American public but although fashions in fiction, including the mystery story, have changed greatly Mr. Hume has not been left behind by the procession. This yarn shows the complex ingenuity of plot that marked his earlier stories, and the plot is the whole thing in this variety of detective-puzzle story. One does not mind greatly if the actors are mere automata, if they are not too wooden. This one involves a properly sinister villian [sic], a doctor who has committed a preliminary murder to lay a foundation for the action of this piece. He is then found murdered, himself, on the premises of the woman whom he has been trying to blackmail. Problem: prove the lady's innocence. It runs into spiritualism, with a highly modernized ghost, and it also drops into a London Chinese opium den where there is a first class fight as a climax to the strenuous action of the plot. It is something of a "thriller" as well as a puzzle story.