gallyangel
8/3/2023
What a romp.
This book will be 100 years old in 2028 and it still has the power to please, to entertain. It's from the 20ies, so yeah, you just have to go with it.
From there you have an evil genius who may or may not be immortal. (Probably not.) You have an intricate web drawing ever tighter around the hero. The lady in distress; the henchman who will turn if certain condition are met. The loyal pal, that helps out a whole bunch. Yeah, those sounds like tropes, but then, this is the kind of fiction, in an era of that kind of fiction, which made the tropes to begin with.
A quick read. It's a guilty pleasure.