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The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace. The book that launched Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Four Just Men was released in conjunction with a newspaper competition allowing readers to guess the truth behind the unsolved mystery at the end of the novel. Like many of Wallace's stories and novels, The Four Just Men was adapted into a silent film in 1921 before being made into a popular...
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Mais o donc a disparu Oscar Trevor? Les lettres de ce grand voyageur, expédiées des quatre coins du monde, ne parviennent plus à ses avoués. Serait-il devenu fou ? Enfin, sa nièce, Gwendda, reçoit une lettre inquiétante : derrière son contenu banal et rassurant, un appel au secours codé qu'elle seule peut déchiffrer. La jeune journaliste américaine se rend donc à Londres, d'o provient l'appel de son oncle. Mais à Londres, rien n'est facile...
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Gregory « le coco » est retrouvé dans un ruisseau, assassiné. Ne faisait-il pas partie, comme Crew « l'aristo », Pinto Silva, Lollie Marsh ou Selby, de la bande du Colonel Dan Boundary ? Aurait-il trahit les « associés » de cette bande qui achète à vil prix les biens de personnes dont ils ont découvert une vulnérabilité ? Car ils sont prudents et cela fait trois ans que Stafford King met toute son énergie, en vain, à trouver un moyen...
4) The Ringer
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A notorious assassin returns to London to avenge the death of his sister in this classic crime thriller.
Word had come from Australia that the Ringer was dead. The body of the legendary killer had been pulled from Sydney Harbor-or so it was thought.
In reality, it is the Ringer's sister whose fate is a watery grave. Left in the care of Maurice Meister, a London lawyer for whom she worked as a secretary, she has turned up dead in the Thames-and now...
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In their second explosive adventure, the Four Just Men must sacrifice one of their own Her rise through the ranks of the Red Hundred was swift and inexorable. From scraps of conversation overheard in her father's kitchen, she crafted speeches that brought men to tears. When the time came for bloodshed, she did not hesitate-generals and princes died by her hand. As her beauty grew, so did her influence. Now the Woman of Gratz and the anarchist horde...
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A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman...
"There is something evil about it. Queer word for me to use, Macleod, eh? They touch your elbow as you walk - ghosts! That's how I've named it the Valley of Ghosts... Macleod, go and stay a day or so in Beverley Green and smell it yourself - something brooding... "
The seemingly peaceful, prosperous community of Beverley Green...
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Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him from a conversation with librarian Sybil Lansdown to a meeting with a Doctor Stalletti, who will become a key figure. Along the way, Martin becomes involved with a small-time crook-an expert at picking locks-who tells him about a recent lock-picking job that has made him quite nervous. But before he can pass along details, the lock-picker is murdered.
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I am an ex-convict, and have, spent twenty-five years in prison. This is the only honest way of making a living, which does not bore me stiff. The spirit of adventure is never stronger in a man than on the day he is, released from prison. The theory that prison crushes a man's spirit is all bunkum. One of the first things I did when I came out of prison was to look round for a nice genteel way of swindling the public. I came out of prison with the...
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A secret society takes deadly revenge on London law enforcement in this 1926 mystery novel by the pioneering crime author.
Inspector Arnold "Betcher" Long was the only man in London who could bring Clay Shelton to justice. Though the murderer and master forger threatened to get his revenge, his execution by hanging put a definitive end to the case. Or so everyone thought. When the judge who sentenced Shelton is murdered, Scotland Yard takes notice....
10) Jack O' Judgment
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"Jack O' Judgment" by Edgar Wallace is a thrilling mystery where a masked vigilante dispenses justice in a crime-ridden city. As Chief Inspector Kerry investigates, the narrative unfolds with suspense, moral complexities, and unexpected revelations. Wallace weaves a tale of crime, retribution, and the pursuit of justice. The enigmatic Jack O' Judgment challenges conventional notions, exposing the underbelly of societal corruption. With a blend of...
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In the turbulent years leading up to the First World War, Malcolm Hay, an aspiring engineer for the Ukrainian-English Oil Company, finds himself entangled in a web of political intrigue and power plays in the heart of Russia.
Amidst the glittering salons of London and the dangerous streets of Kiev, Malcolm crosses paths with the alluring Grand-Duchess Irene Yaroslav. She becomes a pawn in a ruthless game orchestrated by the ambitious Russian prince,...
12) White Face
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A man ends up stabbed to death on a street in London's Tidal Basin, victim of the almost mythical murderer roaming the streets of London, the Devil of Tidal Basin. But why is another bandit suddenly sighted in Tidal Basin as well? What connection had the Devil with White Face? 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,...
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Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering,...
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'How on earth did you piece together all this? ' he asked in wonder. Mr. Reeder shook his head sadly. 'I have that perversion, ' he said. 'It is a terrible misfortune. I see evil in everything. I have the mind of a criminal. 'Let us introduce you to the enigmatic J. G. Reeder, a timid, gentle middle-aged man who carries a furled up umbrella and wears an old-fashioned flat-topped bowler hat. He is one of the great unsung sleuths of mystery fiction,...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edgar Wallace: The Angel of Terror, Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country, Bones in London, The Clue of the Twisted Candle, The Daffodil Mystery, The Green Rust, Jack O' Judgment, The Keepers of the King's Peace, The Man Who Knew, The Secret House, Tam O' The Scoots, The Book of All-Power.
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Edgar Wallace's novels always have an endearing quality about them that is not so easy to define. „Daughters of the Night" is hard to explain in a few words, but there are the usual Edgar Wallace characters: the hero, the heroine, the suspicious but beautiful woman who is somehow involved in the whole plot, the hard-faced and fiendish villain and a chivalrous one. Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branch of the South Devon Farmers' Bank with...
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'We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfilour promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening – The Four Just Men'Criminals and malefactors beware! There is no escape fromthe sword of justice wielded by The Four Just Men. Here are the complete adventures of Edgar Wallace's daring and ingenious vigilantes. This fascinating bumper collection contains all six volumes of the Just Men saga: The Four Just Men, TheCouncil of Justice, The Just...
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Excerpt: She is an orphan," said Mr. Collings emotionally. Orphans were Mr. Collings' weakness. In ordinary intercourse as between lawyer and client, he was a stern, reserved man with a cold passion for compromise. Litigants entered his office charged with bubbling joy that their enemies had delivered themselves into their hands; they came talking five figure damages and the stark ruin of men and corporations, who and which had offended them. They...
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