The Rose in the Ring

{{header | title     = The Rose in the Ring | author    = George Barr McCutcheon | translator = | section   = | previous  = | next      = Part 1, Chapter 1| | year      = 1910 | edition   = yes | illustrator = A. I. Keller | notes     = Edition:New York; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910. ''The only heir to a big Virginia estate, a boy still in his teens, is wrongfully accused, by an unscrupulous uncle, both of murder and of theft of a will; with circumstantial evidence tremendously against him, the boy runs away and finds a haven of refuge in a travelling circus, where in the disguise of a clown he finds himself able to elude the eyes of the sharpest detectives. Among his many friends none is more devoted than a certain professional pickpocket, whose devotion is inspired by his chance defence of the pickpocket's brother, a hunchback''... —Taber Cooper in The Bookman, Nov 1910 {Full review in the Discussion page.] }}