Talk:The Window at the White Cat

Reviews

 * The Nation, October 1910
 * One of the peculiarities of this detective story is the absence of any real detecting. The hero, a lawyer this time, and not a reporter, is busy haunting dark windows and exploring midnight corridors, but for the most part he falls to discover anything through falling down dumb-waiter shafts or bumping his nose or forgetting his shoes. And when the mystery is revealed, it is as much a surprise to him as to the reader. And there is a vast amount to reveal. The iniquities of politics and the eccentricities of woman never before created so complicated a series of mysterious happenings, including murder and disappearance. The best thing in the book is the description of the political club called the White Cat; that is an invention of genius. The poorest thing is the disappearance of Aunt Jane, which does indeed darken the mystery of the plot, but only by an illegitimate trick on the reader. The author's sense of humor is at times delightful, and, oddly enough, seems not at all out of place in a story of blood and horrors.