Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-13 | Page 4 | Mystery Haunts 'House of Sin' by Allen Upward

Mystery Haunts House of Sin by Allen Upward Gruesome Murder Even Great Scotland Yard Poison Expert By ORSON BROWN Mystery and intrigue woven around a poison arrow the theme for Allen Upwards Upward's new story The rhe House of Sin The writer skIllfully tells the story In Ina ina a way which keeps the reader In suspense from start to O finish The uncertaInty begins when a handsome well dressed man ot of 35 is discovered murdered In the mansion man man- slon sion of the duke ot of by bythe bythe the steward Burrowes who is 15 suspected suspected sus- sus of knowing more than Ire is willing to tell Sir Philip Blen- Blen the dukes duke's consulting physIcian Is called but refuses to give an opinion as to the cause of the death The duke dulie who desires prIvacy in the case therefore calls Dr Tarleton a dIstinguished poison polson expert o Scotland Yard Upon arriving Dr Tarleton perceIves an anair anair air of pervading the entire entire en- en tire household and mentally rejects re- re the theory advanced by Burrowes Burrowes Bur Bur- rowes that the man was attempting attempt attempt- lag ing to steal the sap sap- Requesting that he be shown the body Dr Tarleton interrupts interrupts in- in a religIous fanatic LadY Agatha the dukes duke's daughter who i Is offering supplications for the victim A minute examination of the body reveals the vIctim has hasmet hasmet met death by bya a poison polson arrow Injected injected In- In at the base of the headDI headDi head DI Tarleton after searchIng the whole house finds the quIver of arrows In the room of CaptaIn Theobald who with his black servant has lately returned from Nigeria called the land of poison polson and darkness CaptaIn Theobald admits ownership of the arrows but denIes implication In the crime At the request of Captain Theobald Theobald Theo Theo- bald and in in th th Interest of the negro who Is Dr Tarleton Tarleton Tarle- Tarle ton conducts a unique experIment demanding that the entire household household house house- hold eat a handful of rIce as is the custom In Nigeria The ordeal ordeal or- or deal is passed by everyone except ex- ex Lady Agatha who refuses for tor religious The climax reveals a moment of thrilling terror and almost miraculously miraculously mi- mi Dr Tarleton is saved from in tant d at tin tbs hand hand of the fiend n tI ct of cr annie me The TIIe romance fet een CaptaIn Theobald and Rosa flosa sIster of Lady Agatha gives a plea note fo 10 this genuinely tale J. J B. B LIppincott Co Philadelphia Pa