“The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels” by W. A. Wilkins is a detective mystery novel. In presenting this volume to the public, the author hopes to impart information to some; reflect their own character to others; possibly point out a moral and the American political tale that interest the reader. The warp of the fabric is reality, the woof fiction, the coloring domestic. Excerpt: “The Hon. Darius, a man of fifty-five, had served his district as New York State Senator at Albany for two terms. He possessed excellent judgment, and knew this so well that no one could help seeing that he was vain and inclined to be arbitrary in his manner. Mrs. Hamblin was a small, brown-haired lady, with whom time had dealt so gently that the unwelcome and indelible lines of approaching age had been sparingly distributed across a sweet and placid countenance.”
