Complete Mystery Thriller of Louis Tracy

A British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century.


Contents

A Mysterious Disappearance

Cynthia's Chauffeur

The Stowaway Girl

Number Seventeen

The Red Year, A Story of the Indian Mutiny

The Stowmarket Mystery, Or, A Legacy of Hate

The Great Mogul

A Son of the Immortals

The Wheel O' Fortune

The Captain of the Kansas

The House 'Round the Corner

The Revellers

The Late Tenant

The Bartlett Mystery

The Wings of the Morning

The Postmaster's Daughter

The Silent Barrier

The Day of Wrath, A Story of 1914

The Terms of Surrender

One Wonderful Night, A Romance of New York

His Unknown Wife

The Albert Gate Mystery, Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective

The Pillar of Light

The King of Diamonds, A Tale of Mystery and Adventure

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley


A Mysterious Disappearance-

Gordon Holmes has a happy method in the way he talks to his readers. He takes something for granted instead of spinning out to a fine point every single idea.He gives us two diametrically opposite characters in his two detectivesóthe Scotland Yard man and the amateur. Then he gives his readers the same clues the detectives have in Lady Dyke's disappearance.No reader can resist the subtle invitation to speculate as to what has happened and is going to happen. It is a most involved tangle.


Cynthia's Chauffeur-

A pretty American girl in London is touring in a car with a chauffeur whose identity puzzles her. An amusing mystery.


The Stowaway Girl-

A shipwreck, a lovely girl stowaway, a rascally captain, a fascinating officer, and thrilling adventures in South Seas.


Number Seventeen-

Sparring police partners Winter and Furneaux are back at each others throats in this mystery-thriller, as they solve the murder of Edith Lester, occupant of room Number Seventeen.


The Stowmarket Mystery, Or, A Legacy of Hate

Featuring Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective, an insightful, Sherlockian investigator. 


The Great Mogul-

The dissolute James I. did handsomely by India when he attempted to send two intrepid Englishmen to be killed by Spanish torture. These men met danger as a matter of course, battled grimly and loved desperately.


A Son of the Immortals-

A young American is proclaimed king of a little Balkan Kingdom, and a pretty Parisian art student is the power behind the throne. "Adventures and stirring situations follow closely upon one another's heels all through."


The Wheel O' Fortune-

The story deals with the finding of a papyrus containing the particulars of some of the treasures of the Queen of Sheba.


The Captain of the Kansas-

Love and the salt sea, a helpless ship whirled into the hands of cannibals, desperate fighting and a tender romance.


The Late Tenant-

Yet another thrilling story by this British writer and journalist.


The Wings of the Morning-

A sort of Robinson Crusoe redivivus with modern settings and a very pretty love story added. The hero and heroine are the only survivors of a wreck, and have many thrilling adventures on their desert island.


The Silent Barrier-

Produced as a film in 1920, starring Sheldon Lewis, Corinne Barker, Florence Dixon, Donald Cameron, and Gladys Hulette.


The Day of Wrath, A Story of 1914-

This book demands no explanatory word. But I do wish to assure the reader that every incident in its pages casting discredit on the invaders of Belgium is founded on actual fact. I refer those who may doubt the truth of this sweeping statement to the official records published by the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Belgium.


One Wonderful Night, A Romance of New York-

"Mr. Tracy's latest novel provides an absorbing narrative which is not likely to be cast aside prematurely." --Financial Times


His Unknown Wife

Philip Alexander Maseden, American ranchman, victim of the revenge of a newly-made head of a Latin American republic, is sentenced to be shot. Half an hour before the sentence is carried out, and for reasons not explained to him, he is asked to marry a veiled woman. Through the circumstances of this marriage he effects his escape and, disguised as a native, takes passage for the United States on the "Southern Cross." The ship is wrecked and Maseden saves the lives of the woman who is his wife and her sister, but does not know which of the two he has married. Sturgess, a young New Yorker, is also saved. These four have many adventures on a desert island finding clothes and provisions washed ashore from the wrecked ship in true Swiss Family Robinson fashion, with added Aztec treasure. They go to sea on a raft, are attacked by natives, and finally rescued by a passenger steamer. The story is eventful enough to furnish scenes for moving pictures.


The Albert Gate Mystery-

In an Albert Gate mansion a number of Turkish gentlemen had taken up their residence for the purpose of having some fifty-odd wonderful diamonds belonging to the sultan cut and polished. They had enlisted the protection of the English Government, and the police equipment and caution exercised in regard to the safety of the Turks and the jewels were such that the country was electrified when one morning four Turks were found dead in their rooms, the diamonds were missing, and the particular Assistant Secretary in the Foreign Office [...] is found to have mysteriously disappeared. --New York Times


The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley-

When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder, and to find himself one of the most important witnesses in "The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley." --New York Times, March 21, 1920