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The Iron Ring ReviewThis is certainly not one of Keeler's better novels; it's one of those written to wrap around one of his wife's short stories (found in this edition on pp. 151-161). It's even more episodic than the usual Keeler work. Newspaper editor Unwin Wynhart dominates the first half of the novel, then completely disappears as struggling young lawyer Croxson Kalver takes over. Wynhart and Kalver are trying to save the life of convicted murderess Margaret Annister, who is only scant hours away from dying in the Nevada City gas chamber. [Keeler withholds an account of the circumstances of the murder until halfway through the novel.]
The main puzzle Keeler concentrates on here is how the actual murderer (whose identity is known to the reader as soon as the circumstances of the crime are described) has managed to have an unbreakable alibi... four solid citizens of a distant city have testified that they recognized, met and spoke to him at the time of the killing. But the actual (and of course preposterous) explanation of how the killer established his alibi is resolved in a fairly anticlimactic way. The unexpected revelation Keeler reserves for the final paragraph of the novel, unusually, does not involve the murder. Instead it involves the identity of the woman who provides the brains for the Gorilla Svenson mob, which runs almost all crime in Nevada City. Throughout the entire novel, Keeler drags various red herrings around to lead the reader on a totally false trail to this mystery woman... just so he can have a surprise on the last page.
By the way, the iron rings of the title play almost no role whatsoever in the mystery. One does serve to damage the killer's alibi, but in a very minor way.
The short story by his wife Hazel that Keeler inserts into the novel is not nearly as bad as her short stories normally are, so it doesn't kill Keeler's narrative momentum completely dead, as they usually do when included.
This is a very minor work in Keeler's ouvre, but if you're a Keeler fan, you'll enjoy most of it.The Iron Ring Overview

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