![]() ![]() He's also frank about the thankless nature of his job, and how he's exposed to ridicule, because society thinks nothing of the superstitious but looks down its nose at those who try to prove superstition false. ![]() He's a distant precursor to the Scooby-Doo gang. He deals with the upper class, at least in the stories presented here (and I guess they're the only stories he's in). He's not a believer he's firmly convinced that such phenomena are hoaxes and the work of mortal evildoers, and of course, he's always right. The titular "Master of Mysteries" is John Bell, a professional investigator of supernatural mysteries. Clifford Halifax, she co-wrote "Stories in the Diary of a Doctor", and with frequent collaborator Robert Eustace, she co-wrote a number of episodic novels/short story collections, including THE SORCERESS OF THE STRAND and THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SEVEN KINGS (both of which I'll be reviewing in the future) and this collection, first published in 1898. Meade, (1854-1914) was a prolific author of children's novels that are largely forgotten today, but also wrote a number of mystery stories that are still read a century later. And that's why I love this book so much.Įlizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, aka L. While part of me would love for ghosts and psychic powers and suchlike to be real, I know that the evidence just isn't there, at least to satisfy me. Yes, that's right, while I enjoy reading horror stories and supernatural tales and "true" ghost stories and all that, I'm a big-time skeptic. ![]()
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