The Slave of Silence

"So adroitly is the mystery handled that readers will not skip a single page." -The Sheffield Telegraph

"The readers, now growing numerous, of Mr. White's novels are accustomed to expect an exciting, perhaps a sensational plot, worked out with skill and told with vividness and vigour. And those who begin Mr. White's latest story with the same anticipation will certainly not be disappointed. There is at least plenty of sufficiently exciting incidents. A maiden is married to an...
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"So adroitly is the mystery handled that readers will not skip a single page." -The Sheffield Telegraph

"The readers, now growing numerous, of Mr. White's novels are accustomed to expect an exciting, perhaps a sensational plot, worked out with skill and told with vividness and vigour. And those who begin Mr. White's latest story with the same anticipation will certainly not be disappointed. There is at least plenty of sufficiently exciting incidents. A maiden is married to an unworthy suitor merely in order to save her father. Her father is murdered on the very wedding morning by the bridegroom, who has nerve enough to allow the wedding to be completed, though he himself has slain the father of the bride. The maiden's lover, it need hardly be said, falls under suspicion of the crime. Of course, the tangle is unraveled at last; the scoundrelly bridegroom meets his fate, and Beatrice is made happy with her Mark. It is a brisk and exciting story, which should still further increase Mr. White's already high reputation as a writer of sensational fiction." -Bookseller, January 15, 1907

"Striking.... especially unhackneyed, Mr. Fred M. White's "The Slave of Silence," includes more mysteries than found place in "The Crimson Blind," among them some novel applications of electricity." -The New York Times

A feckless businessman plans to sell his daughter into marriage. She loathes the fianc#65533; but refusal will bring disgrace to her father. Then her father is found dead...

Can the man she loves help her unravel the ensuing complications?

First published 1906. Frederick Merrick White (writing as Fred M. White) is known for his six "Doom of London" stories published in Pearson's Magazine in 1903.