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Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 5 By Edgar Wallace

Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 5

By Edgar Wallace

  • Release Date: 2016-03-05
  • Genre: Action & Adventure
  • $1.99

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Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 5: 1. The Nine Bears or The Other Man; 2. The Fellowship of the Frog; 3. The Joker or The Colossus; 4. The Twister; 5. The India-Rubber Men; 6. White Face.

Detective Sgt.Elk series:
1. The Nine Bears or The Other Man
With the stealing of the fat Englishman's wallet by Gregory Silinski, commences this extraordinary story of crime. Who are the Nine Bears? Who is Hyatt and the Man of the Eiffel Tower? And where is “LOLO” the secret rendezvous of the Nine? These are only a few of the facers that confront T. B. Smith, Assistant Commissioner from Scotland Yard, until the final dramatic scene aboard the “mad battleship.”

2. The Fellowship of the Frog
Scotland Yard is chasing the frog with the mask, the leader of a criminal organization that holds the whole of London in his grasp. Nobody ever saw the frog. One tracks him down - but he has to pay for it.

3. The Joker or The Colossus
While the millionaire Stratford Harlow is in Princetown, not only does he meet with his lawyer Mr Ellenbury but he gets his first glimpse of the beautiful Aileen Rivers, niece of the actor and convicted felon Arthur Ingle. When Aileen is involved in a car accident on the Thames embankment, the driver is James Carlton of Scotland Yard. Later that evening Carlton gets a call. It is Aileen. She needs help!

4. The Twister
"The Twister" is one of Edgar Wallace's stranger novels. It's not exactly a mystery, but more of a crime thriller involving the stock market, shares, horse racing and wealthy financiers. The character of the title is one Anthony Braid, a man with an unsavoury reputation within a certain crowd but is nevertheless one of the most respectable millionaires in the City. A race-horse owner, his main source of fortune is the stock market, particularly the diamond market. Unfortunately for his enemies, his peculiar brand of honesty leaves them baffled: he always tells the truth as it is, which is the ultimate twist.

5. The India-Rubber Men
A classic Wallace, stitching together his favourite themes with enough humour and vigour to keep the reader intrigued till the very end. John Wade is the young Scotland Yard inspector, Lila Smith the beautiful orphan with a mysterious past. There is a a criminal mastermind, a long-standing gang of jewel thieves -- the India-Rubber Men, who wear gasmasks and rubber gloves, and carry gas bombs to stave off pursuit - and a smattering of Chinese bandits and American mobsters. Through it all runs the Thames, and there is even time for a little excursion out
of London to its upper reaches in Oxfordshire. The mixture as before, expertly blended.

6. White Face (1930)
Tidal Basin was the toughest, poorest, lowest section of London, and somewhere in it's dark alleys lurked the Devil of Tidal Basin, terrifying the inhabitants , puzzling the police. What connection had the Devil with 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.
But not until Janice Harmon fell in love with a man who had written her from South Africa did the tangled skeins of international crime, murder and mystery begin to sort themselves out - and the strange story of a cold blooded killer come out into the light at last.