The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist

'The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist' is an adventure novel written by Sutton E. Griggs. The story is set in Almaville, a fictional town that the author introduces in the preface with the following passage: «In the long ago when the earth was in process of formation, it must have been that those forces of nature most expert in the fashioning of the beautiful were ordered to come together as collaborators and give to the world Almaville!»