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'The present story reminds one of the melodramas in which the audience are let into the secret from the outset, the interest depending on the perplexities of those who are concerned with the unravelling of the plot, and on the sensational incidents that attend it. We know almost from the first that James Dice, the south-eastern station owner, was guilty of the double murder on the lonely Coorong-road, and his motive is equally clear — the removal of a rival competitor for the Christmas Cup at Adelaide. Mr. Eli Barton, whose great horse, Abimeleck, was regarded as a 'cert,' though, as it happens, the outsider, Black Wolf, would probably have won even against the favorite in the betting. Though Dice bungled his crime, killing two and nearly killing a third where only one victim was intended, he would have escaped but for the cleverness of the New South Wales detective, Larose, who after many sensational adventures succeeds in tracking him down. Justice is done in the end, but not according to legal forms.'

Source:

'New Novels', Advertiser, 15 November 1928, p.9.