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Mr. Dennis's Novels
Parkes, Henry Bamford | April 13, 1932 issue

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The article presents information on the book "The Red Room," by Geoffrey Dennis. The scene of this novel is a small English town, and the time 1890. A young man, assistant in a chemist's shop, who happens through his wife to be the owner of a valuable old house, commits adultery with the wife of his employer. Found out by the husband, he kills himself; the house is then sold by auction. The theme of the book is the heartlessness of the old ladies who try to ferret out the cause of the suicide and of the relatives of the dead man's wife who compete with each other for possession of the house.

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RED Room, The (Book); DENNIS, Geoffrey; RIGHT of property; ADULTERY; SUICIDE; OFFENSES against the person
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