The Amazing Web

New York: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good. (c.1930). Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [good sound book, slight fading to spine cloth, one-time owner's signature on front pastedown, 1931 gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, light soiling to top edge]. Was there ever a Harry Stephen Keeler book that wasn't an "amazing web" of one sort or another? He was infamous for his astoundingly complicated and convoluted plotlines, rife with unusual characters and connections and coincidences that often defy not just logic but time and space as well. (In this instance, although much of the action takes place in contemporary Chicago, the trouble can be traced back several centuries, to a feud between Captain Kidd and another sea captain.) You really haven't lived until you've experienced a Keeler novel. .