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.

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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.

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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 - Crime Club

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

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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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