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The Circus Stealers [Kindle Edition]

Harry Stephen Keeler , Fender Tucker , Gavin L. O'Keefe , Francis M. Nevins

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There’s nothing new under the sun in Idiots’ Valley, home of Harry Stephen Keeler’s Screwball Circus. Angus MacWhorter’s circus has made it across Old Twistibus—the windingest road in the world—but there’s still an important wagon that Rance Holly has to drive to catch up with the rest of the circus in Foleysburg, or the circus will be lost to rival entrepreneur, Wolf Gladish. There’s no nuttier place in the country than Idiots’ Valley, with its pack of illiterate bumpkins, and Harry and Hazel milk it for all it’s worth in this first English-language edition of a Keeler classic!

Eventually, all of Harry Stephen Keeler's unpublishing novles from the 50s and 60s will be available at the Kindle Store. Keep watching the skies!

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 380 KB
  • Print Length: 182 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1605432709
  • Publisher: Ramble House (31 Aug 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005KK7BMU
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #103,483 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Neither good nor bad 25 Nov 2011
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This one is far from Keeler's best, but also fairly far from his worst. He did not expect it could ever be published in English, as a 1960 letter (reproduced) indicates... it was assembled entirely for a Spanish-market edition.

There is no murder mystery to be solved, and almost no suspense. The only "mystery" that Keeler continually brings up is the method devised by the wicked circus magician, DiValo, to prevent circus owner MacWhorter from sending back husky employees to find and rescue driver Rance Holly if he and his new circus wagon do not turn up before a certain moment... a method not revealed until about 115 pages in. Otherwise there is little or no suspense, and no action or event to keep the reader reading. Suspense does build up when a collection of local vultures shows up with evil intent, set on by rival circus owner Wolf Gladish, who hopes to use a preposterous legal/financial snaffle MacWhorter has gotten himself into in order to seize the circus.

Needless to say, our hero Rance eludes the trap set up by DiValo, and makes a spectacular arrival with the funds needed to save the circus' bacon once again... this situation is the standard overarching plot device in the circus series.

Dropped dead into the midst of the novel is an awful short story, "Spangles," by Keeler's wife Hazel. It can be skipped since it is totally disconnected in all ways from the novel that surrounds it.

At about 163 pages this is a fairly slender and insubstantial Keeler work, but it does show a bit of the hard-core craziness that is Harry's trademark.

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