Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 15

Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 15:  1. The Avenger or The Hairy Arm; 2. The Black Abbot; 3. The Day of Uniting; 4. The Door with Seven Locks; 5. The Man from Morocco. 


Crime novels:

1. The Avenger or The Hairy Arm

Francis Elmer has vanished, and all that is found is a typed note signed 'The Head Hunter'. Elmer's niece Adele Leamington is an extra at the Knebworth Film Corporation. The actress Stella Mendoza keeps the whole set waiting to shoot, in the best Hollywood tradition, but her starring role is given to Adele. Surprised by Mike Brixan as she is learning her lines, Adele drops the typed script. The 'v' letters are blurred and the 'g' is indistinct. Mike turns white... 


2. The Black Abbot

They say the ghost of the Black Abbot has been seen near the old abbey, and Cartwright the grocer claims to have seen it too. Meanwhile Harry Alford, eighteenth Earl of Chelford is engaged to Leslie Gine, sister of Arthur, solicitor and gambler with the family fortune. The Earl had originally asked his secretary Mary Wenner to be his bride, but his half brother Richard intervened to stop the marriage. Plotting revenge, Mary proposes she and Arthur marry. Her dowry, she insists, will be fifteen tons of Spanish gold - the missing Chelford treasure.


3. The Day of Uniting (1926)

Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of The Four Just Men. The Day of Uniting features a World War One ace as the lead detective.

«BY the side of a printer’s steel table, a young man was working busily with tweezers and awl. A page of type neatly bound about with twine was the subject of his attention, and although his hand was shaky and he was, for reasons of expediency, working with only one of the two hundred lights which illuminated the “book-room” of Ponters’, he made no mistake.»...


4. The Door with Seven Locks

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him via a conversation with the librarian Sybil Lansdown to Gallows Cottage and a meeting with Doctor Stalletti. Tommy Crawler, Bertram Cody's chauffeur, is also there. Arriving home, Martin finds Lew Pheeney being followed by a man for whom he recently worked. “Doing what?” demands Martin. Lew finally confesses. “I was trying to open a dead man's tomb!” The telephone rings. It is Mr. Havelock.


5. The Man from Morocco

 Suspense novel which takes the reader from London to Sussex and then to Tangier.

«James Lexington Morlake, gentleman of leisure, Lord of the Manor of Wold and divers other titles which he rarely employed, unlocked the drawer of his elaborate Empire writing-table and gazed abstractedly into its depths. It was lined with steel and there were four distinct bolts. Slowly he put in his hand and took out first a folded square of black silk, then a businesslike automatic pistol, then a roll of fine leather...»