I am wowed to see that at time of press, January 1919, bookseller Roger Mifflin dismisses Douglas Fairbanks guide to life book as mere piffle, derides Tarzan the Ape Man as cheap entertainment, and says " to laugh at Fatty Arbuckle is to degrade the human spirit", yet counts among his collected treasures an autographed letter from a Charles Spencer Chaplin.

Not the greatest crime mystery novella, and a lot of ephemeral writer mentions escape me, a few didn't. I do not know if the remark about a cinematic epoch dawning with the Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew's foray into motion pictures is sarcastic or didn't age well. They aren't depicted on many Hollywood history or encyclopedia books.