title: The White Crow (Beacon Hill Mysteries (Doubleday))
author:  Cynthia Peale 
description: This gaslight thriller, the third and last to feature the brother-and-sister team of Caroline and Addington Ames (after 2001's Murder at Bertram's Bower), delivers some notable frissons, even if it never quite embraces the supernatural. When Addington, a committed skeptic, asks William James his opinion of society medium Mrs. Sidgwick, the eminent psychologist replies: "Even if there were no other medium in the world who had her powers, she alone proves that such powers exist. I put it this way: If you seek to prove that all crows are not black, you need only one white crow. And Mrs. Sidgwick is my white crow." At a s ance conducted by Mrs. Sidgwick, Caroline is anxious to make contact with her late mother. Alas, the spirit of Mrs. Ames proves elusive. When Mrs. Sidgwick succeeds in reaching the deceased wife of one of the other "querants," Theophilus Clay, a liberal philanthropist and one of the richest men in Boston, that worthy gentleman drops dead on the spot. After Addington proves Clay's death to be murder, Mrs. Sidgwick receives an ominous message reading "Ames next." The unsurprising denouement is somewhat disappointing, even conventional, after the beguilingly atmospheric buildup. The languid pace and frequent longueurs won't please more impatient, hot-blooded mystery fans, but those who care more for rich historical backdrop than the mechanics of crime-solving should be reasonably satisfied. (Mar. 19) <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Daughter of Anderson Crow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Barr McCutcheon
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. Anderson Crow, Detective
  
  
  CHAPTER II. The Pursuit Begins
  
  
  CHAPTER III. The Culprits
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. Anderson Rectifies an Error
  
  
  CHAPTER V. The Babe on the Doorstep
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. Reflection and Deduction
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. The Mysterious Visitor
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. Some Years Go By
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. The Village Queen
  
  
  CHAPTER X. Rosalie Has Plans of Her Own
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. Elsie Banks
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. The Spelling-Bee
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. A Tinkletown Sensation
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. A Case of Mistaken Identity
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. Rosalie Disappears
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. The Haunted House
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. Wicker Bonner, Harvard
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. The Men in the Sleigh
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. With the Kidnapers
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. In the Cave
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI. The Trap-Door
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII. Jack, the Giant Killer
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII. Tinkletown's Convulsion
  