I Hear Adventure Calling

by Emilie Loring

Can you learn to love a man you hate? Bored with the endless round of gaiety of New York society, Fran Phillips, twenty-three, orphaned heiress, chooses the freedom of a career girl’s life and becomes assistant to a world-famous art dealer in a fashionable Maine art colony.And then Fran’s happy adventure turns to nightmare. A priceless art treasure disappears. False evidence points to Fran. Helpless against her mysterious enemies, who are now threatening her very life, Fran must look for help. The only person she can turn to is the young lawyer, Myles Jaffray, her guardian. But Myles was the man she swore she hated! Emilie Loring was an American romance author who started writing in 1914 and continued writing until her death in 1951. Following her death, her sons continued to publish her work.

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Historical Romance

Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

AKA Emilie Baker Loring
Emilie Baker was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1864 to George M. Baker and Emily Frances (Boles) Baker. Her father was a playwright and publisher and her mother was a homemaker. Loring married Victor J. Loring, who was a lawyer. She began writing in 1914, published her first novel in 1922 at the age of 56, and continued writing until her death after a long illness in 1951. She was a prolific American romance novelist of the 20th century, known for her "wholesome love" romances and independent, spirited heroines. Beyond romance, her books also explore a selection of topics including, but not limited to marriage, love, American patriotism, freedom, and optimism. She died in Wellesley, Massachusetts on March 13, 1951. At the time of her death, she had sold more than a million copies of her first thirty books.

After her death, her estate was managed by her sons, Selden M. and Robert M. Loring, who, based on a wealth of unfinished material they discovered, published twenty more books under her name until 1972. These books were ghost-written by Elinore Denniston. taken largely from wiki, made some corrections (dates didn't add up) per her biographer

Emilie Loring Wiki Page

Reviews

[Hannah]

Not Loring's strongest work but still a fun read. A lot of the characters were underdeveloped because there were so many of them, so it made it harder to guess who the culprit was with any degree of reasonability. I liked Myles and Fran, but I didn't like Myles's bad habit of swearing when under stress.

Content: swearing, basic profanity

[Courtney Lyman]

Emilie Loring is comfort food in book form.

[Amber]

Emilie Loring wrote 50 books and I've read them all. They are romances, but they are written during the second world war and provide a glimpse of life then. I love them, although when I read too many in a row I start to have this strange longing for family jewels. Read some, you'll understand.

[Madeline]

A little bit boring, but okay. Not unreadable by any means,but just a little bit weird and stupid.

[Britt]

Adorable

So much sweet cute stuff. I love these books. Old fashioned description of clothes, people, situations... Fran and Myles were adorable trying to get to know each other.

[Wendy]

A return visit with an old friend

In my teen years, I found the books of Emilie Loring and Grace Livingston Hill. I devoured them all, and was delighted to find them again in e-format. This book has an intriguing story, lots of human interaction and is written in an innocent fashion, so refreshing when compared to today's tell-all style. A gentle introduction to romance in its purest form. I often feel the sexual revolution destroyed the importance of romantic friendship in relationships. A bit dated, but a good read.

[colleen]

read 02.19.84

[Angela]

One i received from my grandma. I like the light-hearted romance combined with a non-violent mystery.

[Shannon Sharp]

I really enjoyed it once it got going. It also took me a little while to get accustomed to the writing style.

[Sophie]

Haven't read this one in a long time, but I remember it as being better than it struck me this time. It seemed to drag a bit, and some of the cloak-and-dagger stuff surrounding the mystery (such as it is) seemed absurdly over the top. (In fact, some of the characters themselves point out how silly some of it is, but are quickly set straight by the cloak-and-dagger professionals.) Still, even so-so Loring is entertaining. And the occasional tidbit about post-war attitudes and realities is interesting.

[Jeanne]

I started reading Emile Loring books when I picked up a paperback from a rack in a hotel lobby (for 50 cents) while on my sister's & my yearly vacation to visit my father. Hooked! I went on to purchase and read every Emilie Loring romance written and available in paperback, not knowing that she had died before I was even born. I loved these books, but read them when I was between about 12 and 18 years old. I was a young reader - do keep that in mind! :-)

[Anna Jackson]

I read this one earlier in the summer, but just getting around to marking it on goodreads. I remember putting this one down and saying "you need to remember this one and buy it at a used bookstore next time you find it". Of course, I don't really remember much else about it, other than that I loved it.

Typical. But go ahead and read it based off of my basic memory impressions alone. Probably worth it.

[Anna]

This romance comes with quite a clever multi-layered mystery, and that is good because the romance is just not convincing. Myles is quite obviously the only marriageable man in the community and yet Fran is determined to continue to think the worst of him, and Myles does not help his case any as he will not allow any of the well meaning people who offer to clear his name of slander to speak to Fran about it.

[Nancy Churchill]

When I was in my early teens, I used to love to read Emilie Boring books. My best friend's mother had a library full of them. When I would finish one, I would go get another. So, when I saw this book, I wanted to read it since this is what got me into reading in the first place.
However, 50+ years later, they are pretty hokey. But not a bad story if you stick with it.

[Alice Phillips]

Old Favorite

I read Emile Loring when I was young. I had no idea her books were available now. The mystery and the romance are still as clean as I remember. I am anticipating great fun as I read others.

[Doug Christiansen]

Great characters

This is really a mystery. Well written with realistic characters. I like the old time setting after the war with heroes and sweet girls with the great morals of that time.