THE WHISPERING OUTLAW

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 9

THE WHISPERING OUTLAW

By George Owen Baxter. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7/6 net.) This is the excellently told tale of a bandit who was the organising genius of a gang whose depredations terrorised the countryside. They plundered and robbed and got away with it. all under the directing power of a man whose face no one saw and who issued his commands in whispers. The storv of how he encountered his love in the woods, how he was willing to make a fool of himself for love’s sake, and how in «he end he was made known to his followers. and “took his medicine’’ from the law for the sake of settling down with a wife is told in terms that keep the reader interested from beginning to end.

ACE HIGH

By George Goodchild. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7/6.)

This is one of the most cleverlyconstructed outlaw stories we have some across for many days. The weaving of the love interest into the adventures of the bold, bad Rob Anderson (but was he?), the mock marriage of the heroine to the said Rob Anderson alias Red Bob (but was it a mock marriage?) and the magnificent spring of the big surprise in the end all go to make a few hours’ delightful reading. The characters are deftly hut firmly drawn, and the tale goes marching forward to a great conclusion.