Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 13

Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 13:  1. Double Dan; 2. The Face in the Night; 3. The Sinister Man; 4. The Three Oak Mystery; 5. The Blue Hand or Beyond Recall. 


Crime novels:

1. Double Dan

Various people had tried, and failed, to break the strong will of Diana Ford. Her lawyers, for instance, thought they could dissuade her from coming to England. Her cousin, Gordon Salisbury, found she had moved in as a permanent houseguest, uninvited and defiant of convention. So, it was not surprising that when she suspected Gordon of being the victim of a clever impersonation, Diana should take charge.


2. The Face in the Night 

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 Thames. Dick Shannon races back to Scotland Yard, which is humming with the latest news: the Queen of Finland's car has been held up in The Mall and her diamond chain has vanished into the fog.


3. The Sinister Man

Jessie Dame calls Major Amery “The Sinister Man.” Secretary Ella Marlowe is the ward of Maurice Tarn, who has drunkenly but seriously proposed. Tarn is going abroad and desires the company of someone he can trust. Though sworn to secrecy, the horrified Ella confesses everything to Ralph Hallam. Looking pale and unkempt, Maurice arrives at the office to apologize to Major Amery for losing his temper. They talk: the Stanford Corporation is mentioned, along with drugs and gangs.


4. The Three Oak Mystery

While brothers Lexington and Socrates Smith, authority on fingerprints and blood stains, are guests of Peter Mandle and his stepdaughter, they observe a light flashing from the direction of Mr. Jethroe's house. “Come three oaks,” it spells in Morse code. A ghostly figure is seen hurrying across the moonlit lawn. Early next morning the brothers take a stroll, and there, tied to an oak branch, is a body with a purple mark where the bullet struck.


5. The Blue Hand or Beyond Recall

Lady Mary Danton and her infant daughter disappeared when Jim Steele, Mr. Salter's legal assistant, was five. Almost 20 years later, the Danton fortune is about to be distributed to Digby Groat and his mother. But Jim is uneasy. Can he solve the mystery? And what does it hove to do with the Thirteen Gang? Is he in over his head?