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Novel 352: David Dwight Wells, Her Ladyship's Elephant (1898)

Heywood Hardy, The Disputed Toll
Heywood Hardy, The Disputed Toll

Two honeymoon couples are re-sorted by a train mix-up.

The American David Dwight Wells (1868-1900) wrote only three novels before his early death.

A “screaming farce, neither more nor less, and successful in its line of delightful absurdity.” Saturday Review, June 25, 1898

“An admirable piece of fooling, with not a dull page.”  Athenaeum, July 2, 1898

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