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Again Sanders - Doubleday

Commissioner Sanders didn't believe in teaching astronomy or evolution to the natives in his African jungle province.  They were too easily terrified.  But he thought entomology ought to be safe so he allowed his irrepressible lieutenant, "Bones", to tell the women of a river tribe about the home life of the bee.  Who would have thought that they would drive out all their men and go to neighboring villages for new mates -- spear in hand.  Sanders himself believed that magic was stronger than science when "Bones" induced the indolent natives to dig frantically on the trail of a sacred snake -- and open a new river course.  It was all in the day's work for "Mr. Commissioner Sanders", the most fascinating of Edgar Wallace's characters.

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Angel Esquire

Angel Esquire, of Scotland Yard, has his hands full in helping Jimmy Stannard, as he is known to the criminal element of London, solve the puzzle of the great safe which held the fortune of Old Reale who had placed it there, and who had taken the precaution to hide the combination in a bit of doggerel verse that served as a cryptogram.  When Old Reale's will was read it was found that four people might benefit by it.  Two of them, known as members of the famous "Borough Lots" gang would stop at nothing to gain possession of the fortune.  Jimmy and his friend are pitted against them in a story that constitutes the finest entertainment for the person liking excitement, love and mystery combined.

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Angel of Terror

There came the sound of a shot.  It was from the outside of the house, and at the sound Glover ran through the doorway, crossed the hall and flew into the open.  It was still snowing and there was no sign of a human being.  He raced along a path which ran parallel with the house, turned the corner and dived into a shrubbery.  Here the snow had not laid, and he followed the garden path that twisted and turned, through the thick laurel bushes and ended at a roughly built tool house.  As he came in sight of the shed he stopped.  A man lay on the ground, his arm extended, and his head in a pool of blood, his gray hand clutching a revolver.  It was James Meredith and he was dead.

Angel of Terror -- Edgar Wallace

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Black Abbot, The

According to the records of the Chelford family, the owners of the Fossaway Manor, an enormous treasure in gold ingots had been buried somewhere in the grounds during Queen Elizabeth's time. The lord of the manor is a mono-maniac; his attorney a passionate gambler who has lost his sister's fortune as well as his own. Into the maze of cross-purposes and desperateness at the Manor, in these modern days of electric light and motor cars, enters the Black Abbot again, terrifying the people of the estate and the countryside. Who the Black Abbot is -- and how he is connected with the mystery of the treasure--these are the elements of the story.

The Black Abbot -- Edgar Wallace

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Blue Hand, The

This is a typical Wallace sensational story, and no one needs a better recommendation that that.  The heroine, the unknown heiress to a large fortune, gets into the unscrupulous hands of a doctor, the son of an old drug-maniac of a woman who is enjoying the fortune that really belongs to the girl.  Aeroplanes take a great part in the denouement of a very dramatic story and the hero's adventures in saving the girl he loves are vivid as any that the pen of Mr. Edgar Wallace has ever described.

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Captain of Souls, The

A mystery novel by a master of the art on a more grandiose scale than the average fiction of this type.  "And you ... and Morelle ... have her in your cruel hands!"  Moropulus stood paralyzed for a moment, then made a dart for the door.  His hand was on the latch when Ambrose Sault shot him dead.  Thus the tragedy, a mystery in motive and deed, but all subordinate to the character of Sault, a "soul with hands."  Twice a murderer, he is the commanding figure in a striking, as appealing, as human, as real a set of characters as have been give us in some time by any writer.

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Clever One, The

For five years, the police had been searching for the man who had flooded America, France and then England with counterfeit banknotes, but his identity remained a complete mystery for them.  He had confederates but none of them betrayed him because even they did not know who he was.  Every possible scheme had been tried to locate his agents but all had failed.  Appparently there was only one real criminal in the world and he was the Clever One.

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Colossus, The  [Inspector Elk] - Crime Club

Marling, Ingle, Mrs. Gibbins,"  Carlton said to Aileen, "Put me together the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle

The Colossus - Edgar Wallace

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Crimson Circle, The

The executioner pulled a handle and the guillotine knife fell -- but only as far as a nail someone had driven into one of the uprights.  Spectators broke through the guards, and the condemned man disappeared.  Eleven years later that nail killed many people.  No one ever saw the face of the man who called himself The Crimson Circle.  To his accomplices he was a voice in the dark -- to his victims he was Death.  Cunning, cold, omniscient, he levied tribute on London -- and when payment was withheld he struck ruthlessly.

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Devil Man, The - Crime Club

Charles Peace .. the Devil Man of the title, actually lived. To the England of the seventies of the last century, he was a sort of Jesse James, Frank Chapman and Till Eulenspiegel rolled into one.  He claimed to rob the rich and aid the poor, to be a Don Juan, and an unappreciated genius of music, manners and letters.  As a matter of fact he was a genius, but a genius of assorted deviltry.  He was genuinely a great burglar, a ruthless murderer, a cruel, cowardly, heartless thug who would have robbed his mother, the local poor-box and the King of England with the same degree of pleasure and professional skill.  He was to burglary what such people as Crippen and Mr. J. G. Smith have been to murder -- an expert of the first water. 

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Diana of Kara-Kara

Comfortably established in his house at Cheynel Gardens, Mr. Gordon Selsbury, by vocation a prosperous young insurance broker, found the peaceful atmosphere of his quiet household suddenly shattered by the entry in it of his dynamic, unconventional cousin, Diana Ford. Once she is established in Gordon's home events of extraordinary excitement circle around Diana. A mysterious society swindler who is famous for his impersonations of his prospective victims appears on the scene. Fifty thousand dollars disappears from a safe, the combination of which is carefully guarded, and a complex situation of mistaken identities develops that is woven into a tale that is humorous, pleasing and full of action.

Diana of Kara Kara - Edgar Wallace

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Door With Seven Locks, The

Apparently it all started when sallow-faced Dr. Stalletti, of evil repute, stole a book of biology from a public library.  It was further complicated when Mr. Havelock, the lawyer, engaged keen-witted and likable Dick Martin to follow the mysterious Lord Selford around the world.  And the first sign of its real horror came when harmless Lew Pheeney, a weak, pleasant little crook, came in great trouble with a tale of having been hired to break into a tomb that was locked with seven locks.  Next day, Pheeney was found dead-locked in Dick's clothes closet. 

Door With Seven Locks - Edgar Wallace

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Double, The - Crime Club

In two strides he was across the room, and had drawn the sheet clear of the thing it hid.  A man lay there, his thin face set in a grin.  He was dead and stark.  There was blood on his neck and on his waistcoat.  The hands folded across the breast were clenched. 

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Face in the Night, The

Is a mystery-horror-murder story of the most thrilling kind.  It is the tale of a devastating vengeance!  An old wrong, a wound that festered for years, the lifetime purpose of a shrewd, cunning, forceful man focused upon a revenge in a house of dark horror, where the body-less green face stared pitilessly at its victims !

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Feathered Serpent, The

What was the Feathered Serpent?  What did it mean?  Why did it come, as a strange symbol of malice -- as the signature of threatening letters -- letters received on the same day by a London musical comedy star, a successful broker, and a big bookmaker.  Peter Dewin, a young reporter, whose specialty is crime, thinks the notes are a publicity stunt for the actress -- particularly when she reports that she has been held up by two men who did her no injury and took nothing of value.  But one more day, and the bookmaker is mysteriously shot and killed.  Then it is that the actress and the broker are thrown into a frenzy of fear ...

Feathered Serpent - Edgar Wallace

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Flying Squad, The - Crime Club

"I never want to see you again! I hate you and men like you! You are all so smug and suave and patently dishonest. You are liars, every one of you! You cover up your villainies with perjury and your mistakes with persecutions ..." That is what Ann Perryman thought of the police and told Inspector Bradley of the Flying Squad who, she had been told, was responsible for the murder of her brother. Not until she had become involved with Mark McGill, the unscrupulous leader of a powerful dope ring and unwittingly helped smuggle cocaine to various places did she come to realize who had murdered Ronnie Perryman. A huge dope ring operating in the heart of London is the background for this thrilling and powerful tale by the king of mystery writers.

Flying Squad - Edgar Wallace

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Four Just Men, The

When the Four Just Men as they styled themselves threatened to murder the Foreign Secretary because he favored the passage of an alien's extradition bill the Commissioner of Police of Scotland Yard felt that they would be unable to fulfill their boast, but when Sir Philip met his end as the message of "The Four" had said he would, all England was roused and no stone was left unturned to find and punish the murderers.  Cunning was matched by cunning, craft by craft and stealth by counter stealth -- it seemed that "The Four" had final been outmaneuvered -- until, with disaster close at hand, they engaged in their last struggle with the forces of the law.

Four Just Men - Edgar Wallace

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Fourth Plague, The - Crime Club

When the Red Hand, the vast and powerful secret society, tried to blackmail an entire nation, Tillizini stepped in -- Tillizini, the mysterious master of criminology whose father the Red Hand had murdered.  And in Tillizini the power of the Red Hand found its match, for he believed that criminals could be treated in only one way -- that it was no use to capture them unless they were "eliminated" at the same time.  When the Red Hand decided to launch a new terror on civilization with the Fourth Plague, it was to Tillizini that the world was forced to look -- and Tillizini had never yet failed!

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Girl from Scotland Yard, The

20,000 is a large amount of money for a woman to draw from her private bank account.  When Leslie Maughan, the cleverest woman operative of Scotland Yard, learned that Lady Jane Raytham had withdrawn that amount, she decided to call on her and learn why such a sum was so urgently needed.  Immediately afterward Druse, Lady Raytham's butler, was murdered, and three strange yellow men made a desperate attempt to treat Leslie in the same manner.  It was plain that a powerful and unscrupulous criminal was making every effort to prevent the evidence of his misdeeds from coming to light but in spite of the dangers facing her the Girl from Scotland Yard stayed on the trail and brought the quarry to earth in a smashing, breath-taking climax.

Girl from Scotland Yard - Edgar Wallace

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Green Archer, The

A detective tale of unusual interest -- scene laid in an ancient feudal castle, with secret passages, dungeons and torture chambers; a mysterious woman, a malevolent man, blooded hounds that prowl at night.  Then there is a lovely daughter, who rents the adjoining manor, seeking a lost mother, a double-crossing valet, a sudden, moaning cry, which all combine to intensify the mystery. Garres Castle in Scotland has a traditional ghost, who prowls, clothed in green from head to toe and carrying a green bow-and-arrows.  At the opening of the story, "The Green Archer" is again active.  There is a mysterious murder where the victim is left with a green arrow through the heart.  Abe Bellamy, the present owner of the castle, has a nightly secret visitor, persistent and unwelcome, who comes in spite of doubt doors, locks and prowling police dogs.  A thrilling, hair-raising mystery story.

 

Green Archer - Edgar Wallace

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Green Ribbon, The - Crime Club

Here is one of the best and most exciting mystery and murder stories Wallace has done.  It revolves around The Green Ribbon Agency, a great horse-race betting organization built up by Mr. Joe Trigger and his two villainous associates, Dr. Blanter and Elijah Goodie.  They operate an enormous illicit betting combine.  To fix a race the trio stopped at nothing, including kidnapping, intimidation and murder.  What's more their operations were entirely successful until they ran afoul of Edna Grey, the heiress from Buenos Aires, whose affairs were in the hands of Arthur Rustum a crooked lawyer employed by the Green Ribbon Agency.  But Edna had attracted the personal interest of Detective Inspector Luke on board the ship which carried her to England, and Luke knew more than any other man in England about the race track racket.

Green Ribbon - Edgar Wallace

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Gunman's Bluff

An amazing cross-section of London!  Social lions and wharf rats; leaders of gangland and leaders of finance; crooks and lords; organized crime and organized justice; the upper world and the underworld locked in a death-struggle; a romance heightened with baffling mystery -- here's the latest thriller by "the King of Mystery Writers."

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Hairy Arm, The

A baffling murder problem is traced to its source by the all-perceiving eye of one Michael Brixan -- free lance detective in the employ of the British Government and Scotland Yard  The solution of the mystery and the complex situations that arise, involving not only men of great renown but also the important nations of the world, are worked out in a manner that will make it hard for the reader to put the book down until it is finished.

Hairy Arm - Edgar Wallace

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Hand of Power, The - Mystery League

On a desolate Dartmoor road begins an amazing series of events involving thousands of peaceful English lives.  Here is an assembly of odd characters that test even the supreme inventive genius of the pen that is famous the world over.  Dr. Laffin, diabolical and unscrupulous master of a secret society, whose membership divides a yearly prize of $250,000; Betty Carew, lovely and beloved by a London theatrical world, yet of strange parentage; Bill Holbrook, American newspaper and publicity expert; La Florette, thin-lipped pseudo French stage star who spelled sin $IN; Inspector Bullott, Scotland Yard's index man on his first outside case; Toby Marsh, London's cleverest cracksman, caught but once, and that by mistake, yet who talked like a walking dictionary; and Captain Hale, seventy-five by fifty coarse inches of muscle and bone.  Through the tangled web of murder, abduction, torture and robbery, plot within plot slowly unravels, weaving the loose ends of crime into the hempen knot of justice.

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Kate Plus 10

Her real name is Katherine Wasthanger, they call her Kate, and she is the Colonel's niece.  Her age is eighteen or nineteen, and from a child she has been brought up to regard the world as her oyster.  Her mother was a wholesome parson's wife, her father was a rascal who was kicked out of the army in '89.  Her maternal grandfather was General Sir Shaun Masserfield, the greatest strategist the British army has ever held -- Kate inherits his genius, but has not learnt his code.   She is, I believe, the brains of the biggest criminal organization in the world.  She plans the big swindles, and each one is bigger than the last -- but never once have we traced the crime to her door.

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King by Night, A

Gwendda sat up in bed and listened.  There came to her the sound of deep, irregular breathing.  It did not come from within the room, but from the corridor.  She was out of bed in an instant, and went toward the door.  She heard it again -- an indescribable sound.  She put her hand on the knob of the door.  It turned slowly in her hand -- something was trying to get into the room.  "Who's there?"  she whispered.  For answer some huge body was suddenly flung at the panel, and she felt it sag under the weight.  She stood, paralyzed with fear, and then, a hollow voice came to her through the keyhole.  "Open the door, you devil!  It is the King of Bonginda -- obey!"  Here is the tale of an evil genius, a directing mind and a creature of brute terror.

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Law of the Three Just Men, The

The Three Just men -- the most popular characters Edgar Wallace ever created -- are back again; Gonzalez, Manfred and Poiccart, sickened by the law's delays and blindness, determined to spend their lives and their fortunes in tracking the monsters and righting the wrongs the law could not touch ... With the passing of years The Three Just men have become respectable, no longer sought by Scotland Yard, but their methods remain unchanged.  Deth they deplored but when it was necessary The Three struck like lightning and were quickly gone.  Lewis Lethersohn, swindler of helpless women, too rich to fear the police, was the first to feel their power.  He tried to murder Gonzalez, but Jules Levingrou was not so rash.  Jules made his living by shipping girls to the Argentine -- for a purpose -- and he simply laughed at The Three.  It was not the wisest thing he could have done ...

Law of the Three Just Men - Edgar Wallace

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Man at the Carleton, The - Crime Club

This book tells the story of Captain Timothy Jordan, chief of the Rhodesian C.I.D.; of Harry the Valet, who was once a detective but who had become an uncommonly adroit thief; of lovely, tragedy-haunted Mary Grier; of Lew Daney, the London killer who preferred American methods; of Mrs. Daney, who was used to betraying her husband for his own good; of Mr. Cowley, Scotland Yard's brilliant enemy of the underworld; and of the chain of strange and bloody events that, having their beginning deep in Africa, centered at last in lonely Clench House, nestling in the hills between Kinross and Glasgow, and in the quiet corridors of the Carleton, the great London hotel where Captain Jordan made his home.

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Man Who Knew, The

A youth is lying dead in Gray Square, Bloomsbury. Constable Wiseman is at the scene, as is the handsome Frank Merril, nephew of rich John Martin. Also there is May Nuttall, whose father was the best friend Martin ever had. A small, shabby man in an ill-fitting frock coat and large gold rimmed spectacles pulls a newspaper advertisement from the deceased's waistcoat pocket. 'At the Yard,' whispers the constable to Frank, 'we call him The Man who Knows.'

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Melody of Death, The

The smashing of the great jewel safe of Gilderheim, Pascoe and Company was plainly the work of skilled professionals.  At nine-forty in the eveing Gilderheim, after classifying the stones, had locked 60,000 worth of diamonds in the safe.  But in spite of the precautions taken against cracksmen, when the office was opened the following morning it was found that the safe had been forced and that is valuable contents were missing.  Gilbert Standerton, nephew of irascible old General Standerton, might have cleared up the matter by telling what he knew of the affair to the police.  For reasons of his own he preferred not to, and for even better reasons George Wallis, a criminal well-known to Scotland Yard, kept his knowledge of the affair secret.  And then begins a long series of extraordinary crimes, so baffling that they defy detection until, in a startling manner, the dual mystery is unexpectedly solved.

Melody Of Death -- Edgar Wallace

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Mr. Reeder Returns [John G. Reeder]

Mr. J.G. Reeder is probably the most popular of all Wallace characters.  He has appeared previously in "Red Aces" and "The Murder Book of J. G. Reeder."  He belongs to the Public Prosecutor's Department, is the greatest authority in England on forgery and bank crimes, wears an old-fashioned, square-topped hat, carries a tightly rolled umbrella which has never, even in a driving rain, been seen unfurled, raises prize poultry, speaks generally in the mildest of manners, and is fast as light with the well-oiled Browning automatic generally concealed somewhere about him.  He lives in the Brockley Road, takes a tram to his office, and has been known to reduce the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard nearly to the point of tears.  There is nothing of Sherlock Holmes about him, for Wallace drew him from life and his vast acquaintance with the cleverest real detectives in London.  "Mr. Reeder Returns" begins with Robert Karl Kressholm, a "good hater," and ends with a man who places his cigar carefully in a little polished stove and shoots himself.

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Mystery of the Frightened Lady, The

Why should Isla Crane, Lady Lebanon's beautiful secretary, look so frightened -- more frightened than any news of murder could possibly make her -- when she learned of the first murder at Marks Priory?  Chief Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard asked himself that question with uneasy suspicion.  He wondered too, about Dr. Amersham, who came up now and then from London, and seemed able to rule even granite-faced old Lady Lebanon with an iron hand.  Brooks and Gilder were even more difficult to place, for American footmen of independent habits n English country house as are not usual.  But his investigations did not prevent the murderer, with his garroting scarfs of red Indian cloth, from striking again and again -- until one night hands closed around a woman's throat, and Tanner saw the truth at last.  This is one of Wallace's greatest stories of crime and detection; possibly his greatest.  Its almost overwhelming atmosphere of dread and impending evil make it unique among recent mysteries.

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Northing Tramp, The

Her wedding day was so fraught with danger that she and her husband were forced to flee from the deadly menace that ruthlessly dogged their every move.  She learned to avoid the man with the read beard and his swarthy knife-juggling companion.  Above all, she feared and avoided Gussie, whose drawl and monocle gave him a deceptive appearance of meekness.  Who were these three and who was her strange husband and what was the secret that spelled death between them?

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Ringer Returns, The

His real name was Henry Arthur Milton, but Scotland Yard knew him as "The Ringer"  -- the best wanted man in Europe.  Like the Three Just Men he took it upon himself to deal out his own private vengeance on certain monsters beyond the reach of the arm of justice.  Here is the tale of his long-drawn battle with Inspector Bliss of Scotland Yard, whose sympathy to The Ringer's motives did not deter him from grim pursuit of his duty.

Ringer Returns - Edgar Wallace

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Ringer, The

To the house of Meister, a mysterious and sinister figure of London's underworld, came a telegram marked "Urgent."  Meister opened it and read this message"  "Henry Arthur Milton convict under sentence of 14 years penal servitude escaped from Parkhurst Convict Establishment last evening."  "The Ringer!" gasped Meister, panic stricken.  He was actually so terrified that he welcomed police protection.  For the Ringer -- so called because of his genius for disguise -- was a killer, a vengeful and desperate criminal.

The Ringer - Edgar Wallace

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Silver Key, The

This is the story of Chief Inspector Surefoot Smith of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard, of Dick Allenby, lovely Mary Lane, Mr. Washington Wirth -- and a ruthless murderer who turned England upside down until the clue of the silver key unmasked him.  The trail began with the murder of Horace Tom Tickler, erstwhile burglar, taken for a ride in the best Chicago fashion, and neatly delivered to Chief Inspector Smith in a stolen cab ...

Silver Key - Edgar Wallace

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Sinister Man, The

Jessie Dame calls Major Amery 'The Sinister Man'. Secretary Ella Marlowe is the ward of Maurice Tarn, who has drunkenly but seriously proposed. Tarn is going abroad and desires the company of someone he can trust. Though sworn to secrecy, the horrified Ella confesses everything to Ralph Hallam.  Looking pale and unkempt Maurice arrives at the office to apologize to Major Amery for losing his temper - they talk: the Stanford Corporation is mentioned, along with drugs and gangs...

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Squealer, The

Somewhere in London, concealed in a retreat unknown even to the police, the remorseless squealer lay hidden. His identity and source of information were two of the most puzzling problems that had ever confronted the members of the Underworld whom he systematically betrayed if they refused to divide their loot with him, or Scotland Yard, whose operatives distrusted him, even though they used the information he supplied them with to bring criminals to justice. Then came the famous burglary of the Van Rissik diamonds and the subsequent murder of Larry Graeme by the "Big Fellow." This brought Scotland Yard into the case and provided the only clue as to the real identity of "The Squealer." But Inspector Barrobal, the keenest detective of Scotland Yard, by fitting the rough edges of the puzzle together, soon led in the chase for this dangerous enemy of society and brought the quarry to earth.

The Squealer - Edgar Wallace

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Strange Countess, The

This genuine mystery story takes the reader from one exciting adventure to another with all the adroitness and ingenuity of Mr. Wallace's previous successful books.  One is left gasping with suspense as the many clues are unravelled only to be followed by others still more stubborn.  A beautiful woman has spent twenty cruel years in prison, for a suspected murder.  Her daughter learns of the relationship after a chance visit at the jail.  The true facts are known only after the discovery of nefarious plots to kill the daughter, visits to the home of royalty, and enforced stays at a so-called home for mental cases.

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Terrible People, The

Half an hour before he was hanged, Clay Shelton, world famous forger and murderer, spoke sneeringly to "Betcher" Long, the keen-witted young man who had tracked him down.  "I'll hang, all right, but I'm coming after you from the grave.  Laugh now ... but you'll remember, when the Terrible People are at your throat."  Long did laugh.  But within three months the prosecuting counsel, the judge, and the hangman who had sent Shelton to his doom were all dead ... by accident Scotland Yard insisted.  Long knew better.  He knew that the Terrible People were closing in on him, silently and mysteriously.

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Terror Keep  [John G. Reeder]

Crazy John Flack, "the cleverest crook in the world," announced his intention of killing two men -- George Ravini, an Italian known to the police in England and on the continent; and Inspector J. G. Reeder.  Then he broke out of the asylum and disappeared.  Only a few nights later, Reeder was attracted by the screams of a woman in the house next to his.

Terror Keep - Edgar Wallace

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Traitors' Gate, The

"Trayne is mad -- mad as a March hare," said Graham Hallowell.  "I've been to the Tower to look over the jewel house.  It is easier to rob the Bank of England.  The old fool is thinking two hundred years wrong.  The jewel house is a safe.  The cleverest cracksman in the world, English or American, could not open the steel doors, and even if he did he'd have twice the trouble to get inside the cage.  There are alarm bells everywhere, and all the leads are concealed, probably in the wall.  The thing is humanly impossible."  Certainly it was a mad plan that Tiger Trayne had conceived.  It seemed impossible and yet, not long after this conversation had taken place the guard responsible  for the safety of the Crown Jewels had been overpowered, the jewels had disappeared from the Tower of London, and the keenest minds of Scotland Yard were at work on their most difficult case.

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Twister, The  [Inspector Elk]

Is a swift torrent of mystery and action, whirling a group of English aristocrats along with the rats of London's underworld in its resistless current.  What a man the Twister is! -- that gentleman of mystery who dominates the world of crime by the simple process of telling the truth.  You'll gasp as you watch him thread his baffling way between every kind of crook and murderer in this latest story by "the king of mystery writers."

The Twister - Edgar Wallace

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Valley of Ghosts, The

In "The Valley of Ghosts", we have a novel which shows Wallace's enthralling skill at its best.  Here murder was done in a quiet settlement of the English countryside, but there was more than one ghost.  Why had Stella Nelson been with the murdered man in the middle of the night, shortly before the fatal shot?  Who was the mysterious blackmailer who had all England in fear?  Why did Scottie reform?  Why didn't the famous detective, Andy MacLeod, do his duty?  A most entertaining detective story, and Edgar Wallace at his best.

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When the Gangs Came to London

Meet Scotland Yard's special aide -- Captain Allerman of the Chicago Police!  "Women and death," said Capt. Allerman to the chief inspector of Scotland Yard, "are the dominating factors in life.  The first have been a racket for years -- and you're soon going to find out what a racket the second can be!"  A few days later old Mr. Decadon, who had just hired a particularly lovely girl as a secretary, received a printed noticed advising him that, in return for $50,000, his life would be "protected" ... and the gangs had come to London!  Then the flood of death burst on London, until Allerman and the Yard, combining all the skill of English and American police methods, solved the secret of the little bank which was doing so well for no apparent reason, of the tug that showed no lights, of two white stickers on a cab window, and at last of the terrible power that was terrorizing London.

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White Face  [Inspector Elk]

Tidal Basin was the toughest, poorest, lowest section of London, and somewhere in its dark alleys lurked the Devil of Tidal Basin, terrifying the inhabitants, puzzling the Police.  What connection had the Devil with the White Face, the lone bandit who roamed London unmolested?  Superintendent Mason, one of the Yard's Big Five, wanted to know, and what Superintendent Mason wanted to know he generally found out.  Criminals knew him as "Sympathetic" Mason, because of his curious methods of cross-examination.

White Face - Edgar Wallace

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