Jesse Trasmere is a penny-pincher who doesnt trust banks, therefore he keeps his money in his house. His nephew Rex Lander received an allowance from his uncle, which he finds too short to keep his extravagant life style. Trasmere decided to go out...Loe edasi...
The local directory is a useful institution to the stranger, but the intimate directory of suburbia, the libellous Whos Who, has never and will never be printed. Set in parallel columns, it must be clear to the meanest intelligence that, given a f...Loe edasi...
Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government “to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn.” Written when world powers were vying for coloni...Loe edasi...
Lady Raytham drew aside the long velvet curtains and looked down into Berkeley Square. It was half-past four oclock on a cheerless February evening. Rain and sleet were falling, and a thin yellow mist added to the gloom of the dying day. An intermin...Loe edasi...
The body of an Oxford professor is found floating in the river Thames. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Scotland Yard investigates....Loe edasi...
Detective JG Reeder and his attractive secretary, Margaret Belman, almost suffered the wrath of John Flack, an unusual villain who pairs maniacal insanity with genius. Detective and criminal are well matched and the reader is kept in the dark about t...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
When Cartwright and Maxell visit the theater in Tangiers, Cartwright boldly liberates the Irish singer Miss OGrady from her infamous surroundings, so angering the theater owners son and the Spaniard Jose Ferreria. Then the news from El Mograb is go...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Mr. Mannering was called the Captain in the village of Woodern Green, which is on the southern edge of Buckingham. Possibly because of his military appearance and the frigidity of his manner; though why captains are supposed to be frigid nobody kno...Loe edasi...
J G Reeder is a shabby little man with red hair and weak eyes. However, his extraordinary mind is rapier sharp. Here are three thrilling episodes torn from his casebook: Red Aces about a man who gambles high and lives in fear; Kennedy the Con Man, re...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
It is a small world, and the possibility of old criminal acquaintances meeting at a Surrey roadhouse is by no means remote. Sketchley, where the Coat of Arms roadhouse stands, is a place of strange happenings. There are thefts of valuable gold plate,...Loe edasi...
The green face hangs in the Room of Horror and around it grows a living, baffling legend of mystery and murder. At 2.00 a.m. the Embankment fog is thick and black. Men are gathered round a body. The dead man was clubbed and then thrown into the Thame...Loe edasi...
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at age 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer W...Loe edasi...
