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E. W. Howe, known for the realism of his novels about the American Middle West, turns to romance in The Mystery of the Locks. Dr. Allan Dorris purchases the Locks-a mysterious mansion-then marries, and is later murdered. The riveting story is a portrait of the morbid social elements in a bleak town.
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E. W. Howe established his reputation as an American realistic novelist with The Story of Country Town, an engrossing and vivid portrait of Midwestern Puritanism. Semi-autobiographical and enormously successful when published, the book tells the tale of Ned Westlock and his family, who live in a small Midwestern farming community.
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