The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was John Fox Jr.’s first big success, making the bestseller list two years running. The melodrama survives as a curiosity, but it’s too splintered to endure as a novel.
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Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a curiosity lost in melodrama
Posted in 1908 Bestselling Novels, 1909 Bestselling Novels, Adventure, Romance, tagged Civil War era, Cumberland Gap, John Fox Jr., mining, rural America, steel on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
100 years on, The Man in Lower Ten is still tip-top
Posted in 1909 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, tagged Mary Roberts Rinehart, Pittsburgh, pullman, train on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With its gentle, quirky characters and period setting, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Man in Lower Ten is everything a mystery ought to be.
Two reviews ahead of 1909 novels
Posted in 1909 Bestselling Novels on October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
I have exhausted my pile of 1919 bestsellers. I meant to get to the state university branch library to use their archives, but life intervened.
I’ll step back 10 years and give you reviews of two novels from the 1909 bestseller list that I found in circulation: The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart [...]
At 100, The Man in Lower Ten is still tip-top
Posted in 1909 Bestselling Novels, Mystery on March 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Mary Roberts Rinehart sets her 1909 mystery The Man in Lower Ten on a Pullman car. From there, she leads an unlikely hero down many wrong tracks, much to his discomfort and the reader’s delight.
Bachelor lawyer Lawrence Blakely hops a train to Pittsburgh to take a statement from John Gilmore proving Andy Bronson forged the [...]
