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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
Colossus,
The
[Inspector
Elk]
-
Crime Club
Marling,
Ingle, Mrs.
Gibbins,"
Carlton said
to Aileen,
"Put me
together the
pieces of
this jigsaw
puzzle
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$15.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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 !
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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 ...
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$16.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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!
$15.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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."
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$15.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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 ...
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$15.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.'
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$15.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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?
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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
...
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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...
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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."
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.
$12.00
Dustjacket
Only
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.