
Mary Carstairs' father, who has not seen his daughter since he separated from his wife, hires a young man to kidnap her. The youth, who abducts Mary by a harbor, falls in love with her.
Henry Sydnor Harrison, Anthony Coldeway
United States

Nothing prepares you for the moment when the kidnapper’s gloved hand hesitates—half a heartbeat—before closing around Mary’s wrist. In that sliver of celluloid, the entire moral ...
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