Colonel Dan Boundary runs a very efficient gang of London blackmailers. They find a business owner's weakness--clandestine lover letters, a compromised situation--and demand to buy him out for a pittance. It's all quite legal--money changes hands, a business moves from one name to another. And Boundary's gang grows a little bit richer. Pinto Silva, Swell Crewe and Lollie Marsh--Boundary's trusted accomplices--do their job well. Until the death of gang member Snow Gregory from an apparent drug overdose puts them in the spotlight. Until the disappearance of...
JACK O'JUDGMENT
Colonel Dan Boundary runs a very efficient gang of London blackmailers. They find a business owner's weakness--clan...
If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him. The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh discouragement which the chairman had put forward. Enthusiasm, reflected the elder man, was one of the qualities which were most desirable in the man who was to accept the position which Malcolm Hay was at that moment considering.
If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him. The chairman of the Ukr...
Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals. His "The Daffodil Mystery" is a Crime novel in which Mr. Thornton Lyne, minor poet and head of Lyne's Stores, was found dead in Hyde Park, murdered undoubtedly The clues were numerous but contradictory...
Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles i...