“edgar wallace”

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him via a meeting with Doctor Stalletti. Tommy Crawler, Bertram Cody’s chauffeur, is also there . Arriving home, Martin finds Lew Pheeney being followed by a man for whom he recently worked. ‘Doing what?’ d... More

Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branchof the South Devon Farmers’ Bank with a love of hunting , horses and a dislike of routine. What does he have in common with Margot, the beautiful Mrs Markham and a handsome American? And what do the Daughters of the Night, the three Roman deities who b... More

Thomas Maple lives on Criystal Palace Road with his Verity. He worka for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries, perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer, she develops serious misgivings, and arriving bac... More

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,nice of the actor and convicted felon Arthur Ingle.When Aileen is involved in a car accident on the Thames Embankment, the driver i... More

When the Foreign Secretary, Sir Philip Ramon, receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members’ smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitroglyerine leave Scotl... More

Grace,’ he said, ‘I am going to apply he methods of the Four to this devil Stedland.’ Bu the judge finds Jeffery Storr guilty, not stedland. As Storr’s wife, Grace, leaves the court, a foreign-looking gentleman introduces himself. He and his companion are friends of her husband. Justice has ... More

Forged notes have started to appear everywhere. Mr Cheyne Wells of Harley Street has been given one. So has Porter. Peter Clifton is rich, but no one is quite certain how he acquired his money – not even his new wife, the beautiful Jane Leith. One night someone puts a ladder to Jane’s window and... More

When Mr Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur and owner of Lyne’s Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack Tarling to investigate another employee, Mr Milburgh, Lyne now changes his plans. Tarling and his Chinese companion refuse to become involved. They pay a visi... More

There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. Herein lies the justification for The Council of Justice, a meeting of great and passionless intellects. These men are indifferent to world opinion. They relentlessly wage their wits and cunning agains... More

Francis Elmer has vanished, and all that is found is a typed note signed ‘The Head Hunter’. Elmer’s niece Adele Leamington is an extra at the Knebworth Film Corporation. The actress Stella Mendoza keeps the whole set waiting to shoot, in the best Hollwood tradition, but her starring role is gi... More