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Murder comes to a quiet settlement of the English countryside, and with more than one ghost. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the night, shortly before the murder? Who was the mysterious blackmailer who held all England in their grasp? Why didn't the famous detective, Andy MacLeod, do his duty? From Wikipedia.
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After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as "Bones" to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a series of improbable but exciting adventures and too-good-to-be-true business ventures.
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Edgar Wallace's first published books were not thrillers or the Sanders of the river books, but collections of poetry. Wallace was very much a soldier poet. Wallace began publishing songs and poetry, much inspired by Rudyard Kipling, whom he met in Cape Town in 1898. Wallace's first book of ballads, The Mission that Failed!, was published that same year. In 1899, he bought his way out of the forces and turned to writing full-time. Remaining in Africa,...
5) Hands up!
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Excerpt: "Als Margaret Maddison beim Frühstück die Morgenzeitung liest, fällt ihr Blick auf das Foto eines hageren Mannes."Kennen sie diesen Mann?" steht drunter. Er war an einem Mord beteiligt."
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Another exciting title in the Sanders of the River adventure series, featuring Commissioner Sanders. Bosambo is a crook, and a conman. But he is a clever one. He frequently outwits Sanders and his crew. At the same time, he is fiercely loyal to Sanders and often comes to his rescue.
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Extra! Extra! American billionaire King Kerry is using his immense wealth to quite literally buy London, in this gripping mystery from prolific writer and creator of King Kong, Edgar Wallace.King Kerry and his associates own a huge and growing portfolio of properties, and he has come to London to expand his empire. A charming and ambitious man, he nevertheless has made a few enemies along the way- including the obnoxious and dangerous Hermann...
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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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Hamilton Cleek is a consulting detective and also known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible skill at disguise. Cleek is himself a reformed criminal and now helps Inspector Narkom of Scotland Yard in solving crimes in Clarges Street, London. The Cleek mysteries were originally published as individual short stories but were later compiled into separate books. Content: Cleek, the Master Detective; or The Man of the Forty Faces Cleek of...
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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....
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The Black Avons I - How They Fared in the Time of the Tudors' is an adventure-drama novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story follows the narrator's life during the reign of the Tudors. He was born in the reign of the eighth Henry whom men called Bluff King Hal. The morning of his birth was the day when Anne Boleyn, who was mother of the great Elizabeth, was brought to the scaffold for her many wickednesses, and because of my father's admiration for...
13) The Steward
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The Steward' is a collection of short stories written by Edgar Wallace. Nine titles in total can be found inside this book, all from various genres. Featured titles include 'The Ghost of John Holling', 'The Little Baroness', and 'Solo and the Lady'.
14) We Shall See!
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We Shall See!' is a detective novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story is about Alva, the mentally unbalanced wife of airline pilot Evan Collins, who wants her husband to leave his job. However, she is tragically killed when someone throws a hive of bees into her bedroom. Police deduce that whoever was responsible knew that Alva was allergic to the insects. Each member of the household, both relatives and staff, comes under suspicion, as her psychotic...
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When the Gangs Came to London by Edgar Wallace is about several gangs from Chicago coming to London and forming alliances to chill even the strongest of the English people. Excerpt: "All this began on the day in 1929 when 'Kerky' Smith met his backer in the Beach View Cafe and put up a proposition. This was at the time when Big Bill was lording it in Chicago, and everything was wide open and the safe-deposit boxes were bursting with grands."
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Captains of Souls' is a mystery novel written by Edgar Wallace. It revolves around a detective named Ambrose Sault. The author was a prolific British author and one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's...
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The Cat Burglar and Other Stories' is a collection of short stories from various genres, written by a prolific British author named Edgar Wallace. Seven stories in total can be found inside this book's pages, featuring titles such as the following: 'Establishing Charles Bullivant', 'Sentimental Simpson', 'White Stocking'.
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"The Standard History of the War, Vol. I" is the first volume of the four-part book on the events of the Second Boer War. It was written by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, an English writer who then was a war correspondent in Africa. Being the witness of war horrors, he wrote several articles on the Boer War, which later inspired him to compile a detailed work on the events of that time.
19) The Iron Grip
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The Iron Grip by Edgar Wallace is about ordinary, well-educated Jack Bryce and his new career as a detective after just getting out of the military. Excerpt: "Captain Jack Bryce, inscribed in the family records as John Richard Plantagenet, but better known amongst his intimate friends as Wireless Bryce, had dropped his army title, for he had discovered that it prejudiced rather than helped his chance of securing employment. It was as plain Mr. Bryce...
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The Yellow Snake', also known as 'The Black Tenth', is a thriller novel by Edgar Wallace. The story begins at a house in Siangtan, owned by Joe Bray's. Joe was unique even in China, to which so many unusual personalities have drifted since the days of Marco Polo. The house was of stone and had been designed by one Pinto Huello, a drunken Portuguese architect, who had left Portugal in circumstances discreditable to himself, and had drifted via Canton...
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