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In his Four Just Men series, Edgar Wallace comes up with something different: the ‘villains’ are not necessarily bad people, and the pursuers of justice, the Four Just Men, as they call themselves, are acting outside the law. They argue that their actions are for the public good, and dispassionately eke the ultimate revenge — death — on their victims. In their turn, the Four Just Men are pursued by the police, but somehow remain our heroes.

The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of them know each other. A beautiful young woman named Thalia Drummond appears to be involved in the gang too. But who is the leader of the gang, known only as The Crimson Circle? Chief Inspector Parr is on the case, as well as private detective Derrick Yale. - Summary by Anna Simon

Set in England at the turn of the 20th century, Wallace's crime novel The Daffodil Mystery follows the mysterious circumstances under which shop owner Lyne has been murdered. Accordingly, it is up to detective Jack Tarling and his trusted Chinese assistant to solve the case and reach an appropriate and just resolution. Moreover, the happenings within the novel are intensified by the colorful set of characters, which are marked by their plausible façade and contribute to the novel's appeal.

In The Just Men of Cordova, written in 1917, the Four move into the treacherous, aristocratic world of gambling, horse-racing and high finance. It seems that police services, even governments, have no power to control this world, where blackmail, poison and murder are commonplace. The Four, working outside the law, take it upon themselves to clean things up in their own way.

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.

Ein harmloser Whiskeyschmuggler wird tot auf seinem Boot aufgefunden, ermordet mit einer Harpune -- dem Markenzeichen eines mörderischen Diebes, dem "Hai". John Wade, Inspektor bei Scotland Yard, steht vor einem Rätsel. Seine Nachforschungen führen ihn zu einer zwielichtigen Spelunke: dem Gasthaus an der Themse.

Hot on the trail of a troupe of diamond and emerald embezzlers comes super sleuth Mr J. G. Reeder, Edgar Wallace's master creation of a detective who confesses to having the mind of a criminal. Reeder's techniques for solving cases are unique, most notably because he was "... a gentleman who liked to work in an office where the ticking of a clock was audible and the turning of a paper produced a gentle disturbance".

'The Urbane T.X. is back in this locked-room mystery by British master storyteller Edgar Wallace. The renown mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to prison. His friend T.X. Meredith, employed by Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence.

Seven famous and sensational true crime stories retold by classic crime writers.

The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of them know each other. A beautiful young woman named Thalia Drummond appears to be involved in the gang too. But who is the leader of the gang, known only as The Crimson Circle? Chief Inspector Parr is on the case, as well as private detective Derrick Yale.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of 15 he had experience selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the infantry; he was posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace, which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur. In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing.

Der ehrgeizige Regisseur Carl Denham möchte endlich einen großen Filmcoup landen. Deshalb macht er sich mit einer Filmcrew auf, eine entlegene, sagenumwobene Insel im indischen Ozean zu entdecken. Dort lebt ein Volk, das dem Riesenaffen King Kong junge Frauen als Opfer darbringt. Um den Affenkönig zu besänftigen, entführen die Eingeborenen den Filmstar Ann Darrow und bieten sie dem als Opfer dar...

Stephen Narth steht das Wasser bis zum Hals. Wenn er nicht in kürzester Zeit 50.000 Pfund auftreibt, ist seine Firma am Ende. Hoffnung keimt auf, als ein Testament ihm Reichtum verspricht, wenn er eine nahe Verwandte zur Ehe mit einem Unbekannten zwingt.

Forty breathtaking short stories of gripping adventures, secrets and strange conspiracies. 'The Dust That Was Barren' by P. C. Wren. 'The Deserter' by Stacy Aumonier. 'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher. 'The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles' by William Le Queux. 'The 39 Steps' by John Buchan. 'Three Pennyworth of Luck' by Basil Murray. 'The Secret of Dr. Vaux’s Intrigue' by William Le Queux. 'A Thread of Scarlet' by J. J. Bell. 'How I Became a Secret Agent' by Dr. A. K. Graves.

"In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations." When a British politician pushes through a law that will allow political refugees to be sent back to their countries of origin, he becomes the target of the Four Just Men - a group of vigilantes who set out to the punish the people who consider themselves above the law.

The chase is on to stop Dr. Van Heerden before he can release the threat of the Green Rust and take over the world in this exciting page-turner, originally published in 1919, from the undisputed "King of Thrillers, " Edgar Wallace. During the 1920's and 30's, it was said that one of every four books read in England was written by Wallace, who ultimately produced 173 books and 17 plays.

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 1000+ audiobooks, all ad free!Dick Martin is on his last day on the job at Scotland Yard, having planned to retire early due to an inheritance windfall, when he becomes entangled in a strange and convoluted mystery involving a missing heir, a stolen library book, vivisection, a series of murders and a mysterious tomb with a complicated and unique set of locks, the keys of which have been scattered to the winds. But as the pieces start to come together, what seems at first a series of odd and random coincidences begin to add up to a sinister plot to seize a fortune!

Der berüchtigte Einbrecher "Mr. Löwenzahn" hält Londons Oberschicht in Atem. Geschickt nutzt er die Eitelkeit der Reichen, um gezielt die Juwelen und Schätze an sich zu reißen, die sie in Zeitungsannoncen anpreisen. Doch diesmal hat Anthony, der "Preller", einen cleveren Plan: Als wohlhabender Sammler "Mr. Machilatos" setzt er mit einer fingierten Verlustanzeige einen verlockenden Köder. Mr.

A rollicking good tale about 4 men righting wrongs the courts did not do. These 4 act honorably by giving most of their targets a chance to escapee their form of vigilante justices. This case is about an English Cabinet minister set to expel refugees of principle from England to labor camps or execution in their despotic homelands.

Lawyers who write books are not, as a rule, popular with their confrères, but Archibald Lenton, the most brilliant of prosecuting attorneys, was an exception. Alphonse Riebiera was a man who had a way with women, women who would fall under his spell and then regret it. But this time it seems he may have picked the wrong woman.