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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,...
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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.
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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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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A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman...
"There is something evil about it. Queer word for me to use, Macleod, eh? They touch your elbow as you walk - ghosts! That's how I've named it the Valley of Ghosts... Macleod, go and stay a day or so in Beverley Green and smell it yourself - something brooding... "
The seemingly peaceful, prosperous community of Beverley Green...
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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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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."
12) 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 Enchanted Castle is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children – Gerald, James and Kathleen, who discover it while exploring during the school holidays. The lake, groves and marble statues, with white towers and turrets in the distance, make a fairy-tale setting, and then in the middle of the maze in the rose garden they find a sleeping fairy-tale princess. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous...
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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...
15) 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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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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"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.
18) Grey Timothy
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Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" is born from his need to defend social mutiny and it posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base Paine defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French...
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The Black Avons IV - Europe in the Melting Pot' is an adventure novel written by Edgar Wallace. The story begins with the narrator remarking that it is almost inconceivable that there should be in his family a Black Avon who was, for any reason whatsoever, an unpopular figure. They have for scores of generations been built in an heroic mold; a shining light of their time, and their memories have been hallowed by all who bear the narrator's last name....
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The Terror and Other Stories' is a collection of stories written by Edgar Wallace. Two stories are featured in this book: 'The Terror' and 'White Face'. 'The Terror' follows a group of criminals who are hunting down their leader, who double-crossed them and led to their imprisonment. 'White Face' centers on a serial killer whose only identifying feature is his white mask-and the doctor and reporter duo who are trying to catch him.
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