The Murder of Madeline Brown
Text Publishing, $19.95 pb, 160 pp
Fiction
The Murder of Madeline Brown by Francis Adams
by Miriam Manne •
Harold Bloom’s comment on one of Poe’s stories that ‘the tale somehow is stronger than the telling’ came to mind during my reading of the nineteenth century mystery, The Murder of Madeline Brown. In spite of unevenness in the writing and some irritating Latin affectations, the story has a haunting quality which lingered long after the reading.
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