<div><B>In their second explosive adventure, the Four Just Men must sacrifice one of their own</B><BR /><BR /> Her rise through the ranks of the Red Hundred was swift and inexorable. From scraps of conversation overheard in her father&rsquo;s kitchen, she crafted speeches that brought men to tears. When the time came for bloodshed, she did not hesitate&mdash;generals and princes died by her hand. As her beauty grew, so did her influence. Now the Woman of Gratz and the anarchist horde in her thrall are ready to declare war&mdash;on London, whose streets and tube stations they want to sow with fear, and on the Four Just Men, the only organization powerful enough to stop them.<BR /><BR /> Of course, Manfred, Gonsalez, and Poiccart&mdash;aided in this adventure by the mysterious and wealthy Bernard Courtlander&mdash;are still wanted by Scotland Yard for the assassination of the foreign secretary. Recognizing her advantage, the Woman of Gratz pounces&mdash;even though it means betraying her ideals, and her heart. To the gallows goes one of the four, a smile on his face.<BR /><BR /> The second installment in the Four Just Men series established Edgar Wallace as one of the most dedicated and popular thriller writers of the early twentieth century.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Council of Justice is the second book in the Four Just Men series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

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The Council of Justice

<div><B>Ten thrilling tales from the secret files of the world&rsquo;s most famous vigilantes </B><BR /><BR /> An honest workingman tries to intimidate his wife&rsquo;s blackmailer and winds up in prison. Only the organization known as the Four Just Men can save him&mdash;by taking the law into their own hands. A noted professor is found strangled to death in his laboratory, and the prime suspect is his sinister-looking son. When Manfred and Gonsalez realize that the police have not only the wrong man, but the wrong murder method, they set a trap for the real killer. A chance encounter on a golf course reveals a plot to eradicate one of the earth&rsquo;s most innocent and necessary creatures, and Gonsalez vows to stop the mad scientist in charge, whatever it takes.<BR /><BR /> With the assassination of Sir Philip Ramon and the war against the Red Hundred years behind them, Manfred, Gonsalez, and Poiccart have settled into lives of scholarship and leisure. That does not mean, however, that they can let injustice stand. Wherever these three principled men go, they carry with them the memory of the original fourth member of their group, who was gunned down in a Bordeaux caf&eacute; decades ago. In his honor, and in defense of innocence and integrity, they will act&mdash;swiftly and without remorse.<BR /><BR /> In these unforgettable stories, Edgar Wallace demonstrates the enduring appeal of a clever mystery solved&mdash;and vengeance obtained.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR />  <BR /><I>Again the Three Just Men is the sixth book in the Four Just Men series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

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Again the Three Just Men

<div><B>The thrilling debut of the Four Just Men, the world&rsquo;s most sophisticated vigilantes </B><BR /><BR /> In a time of turmoil and intrigue, with governments around the world buffeted by the winds of radical change, four men vow to do whatever it takes to ensure that justice prevails. They kill without remorse, their victims powerful men and women guilty of the vilest of crimes: rape, embezzlement, extortion, murder. Now the British foreign secretary finds himself in the crosshairs of Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, and Thery&mdash;the newest member of the four and a man with a very special skill.<BR /><BR /> Sir Philip Ramon&rsquo;s Aliens Political Offences Bill threatens to expel honest revolutionaries from the safety of England and return them to their corrupt native lands, where torture and death await. The Four Just Men publicly ask Ramon to withdraw the bill. When he refuses, they put their ingenious plan into action.<BR /><BR /> Edgar Wallace self-published <I>The Four Just Men </I>and bankrupted himself promoting it. One century later, it stands as one of the most innovative and influential thrillers ever written.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Four Just Men is the first book in the Four Just Men series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

The Four Just Men

<div><B>The second installment in the enthralling exploits of Commissioner Sanders, Great Britain&rsquo;s man in colonial Africa</B><BR /><BR />Commissioner Sanders should have known better than to go on vacation. He is just a few days from his offices in British West Africa when he receives word from his second in command that trouble, always at a simmer in this jungle outpost, is about to come to a boil. He rushes home, arriving just in time for a meeting of the chiefs of his territory, who have been misled by an ambitious agitator named Bosambo into thinking that Sanders is dead. Sanders&rsquo;s return staves off rebellion, but Bosambo&rsquo;s power grab is not over yet. To keep the province from erupting into all-out tribal warfare, Sanders must outsmart the most brilliant chieftain in Africa.<BR /> <BR />In these rip-roaring adventures, the heroic commissioner contends with malaria, ju-ju, and the whims of government officials safely ensconced in their London offices. <I>The People of the River </I>is both a good-natured thrill ride and a fascinating historical document.<BR /> <BR />This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

The People of the River

<div><B>Thrilling adventures of colonial Africa from the creator of <I>King Kong</I></B><BR /><BR />In the jungles of West Africa, Commissioner Sanders is the highest representative of the British crown. The health and safety of a quarter-million natives&mdash;who speak countless languages and worship untold gods&mdash;are his responsibility. Whether disciplining a boy king, expelling troublesome missionaries, or fighting to contain outbreaks of sleeping sickness and beri-beri, Sanders and his lieutenants must be quick, decisive, and fair. The fate of the empire&mdash;not to mention their lives&mdash;depends on it.<BR /> <BR />These rollicking escapades, based on Edgar Wallace&rsquo;s travels in Africa, offer an entertaining glimpse into a world&mdash;and a mindset&mdash;long lost but endlessly intriguing.<BR /> <BR />This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. </div>

Sanders of the River

<div><B>A shadowy figure controls a cabal of criminals that could bring London to its knees</B><BR /><BR /> In the black of night, a gang of workmen gather in the forest of France to assemble a guillotine. They open a few bottles of wine as they work, and one hammers a nail into the wrong spot. At dawn, the nail blocks the blade, and a prisoner survives to escape his fate. Many years later, that nail will doom more than a dozen men.<BR /><BR /> In London, a ruined financier stands on the verge of committing suicide. He is contemplating a fatal dram of poison when he hears a voice behind him offering money enough to clear his debts in exchange for complete and total obedience. Thus a new member is initiated into the sprawling criminal organization known as the Crimson Circle. Its members don&rsquo;t know one another, and none knows their ruler&rsquo;s face&mdash;but he knows them, and he will use his power to shake Britain to its very core.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Crimson Circle

<div><B>When organized crime comes to England, two brothers face off</B><BR /><BR /> At eighty years old, Professor Tillizini is Italy&rsquo;s foremost authority on the nefarious practices of the underworld. His life&rsquo;s work has been to root out the secret society known as the Red Hand, a blackmailing outfit that has terrorized the country for centuries, and he has finally pinpointed its source. When Tillizini goes to arrest Count Festini, the cagey old criminal sends his two sons into the other room, where they hear the gunshot with which their father ends his own life of crime. One son vows to take up his father&rsquo;s mantle and give himself over to the Red Hand. The other will dedicate his life to stopping him.<BR /><BR /> When the Red Hand surfaces in England, its schemes threaten to tear the country apart. Here two brothers will have their final showdown, and the Festini legacy will be settled, for good or evil.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

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The Fourth Plague

<div><B>In Spain, the Just Men stalk a mysterious English doctor</B><BR /><BR /> The beggar limps toward the outdoor caf&eacute; looking for a familiar face. He finds Manfred sitting alone and tells the gentleman to follow. Only when the beggar leans close and speaks in his true voice does Manfred recognize him as Gonsalez, master of disguise and an ally in the fight against crime. When they are joined by the rakish Poiccart, the Three Just Men are together at last. Feared throughout Europe for their willingness to kill those criminals whom the law cannot touch, they have come to Cordova in search of an English doctor&mdash;but they will soon discover that it is he who hunts them.<BR /><BR /> The doctor is in the employ of Colonel Black, a financier and would-be Napoleon who seeks a particular Cordovan poison that cannot be detected by modern science. The fate of Europe hinges on a single vial of the lethal liquid, and the Just Men will be waiting when it falls.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Just Men of Cordova is the third book in the Four Just Men series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

The Just Men of Cordova

<div><B>To save herself from debtor&rsquo;s prison, a girl agrees to marry a convicted killer</B><BR /><BR /> When her father died, Lydia lost her closest friend in the world and inherited a mountain of debt. Though she works tirelessly, she doubts she will ever be able to pay it all off. She is near despair when a lawyer comes to her with a most unusual proposal that could save her finances&mdash;and cost her life.<BR /><BR /> The lawyer&rsquo;s client is James Meredith, a wealthy young man who has been sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor for a murder he did not commit. The witness who put him away was his fianc&eacute;e, Miss Briggerland, whose icy beauty conceals a heart that burns with rage. The lawyer asks Lydia to marry James in order to keep the psychotic woman away from his fortune, but Miss Briggerland is not one to be crossed lightly. She will take her revenge on Lydia, and she will take it in blood.<BR /><BR /> This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.</div>

The Angel of Terror

<div><P><B>A notorious assassin returns to London to avenge the death of his sister in this classic crime thriller.</B></P><P>Word had come from Australia that the Ringer was dead. The body of the legendary killer had been pulled from Sydney Harbor&mdash;or so it was thought.</P><P>In reality, it is the Ringer&rsquo;s sister whose fate is a watery grave. Left in the care of Maurice Meister, a London lawyer for whom she worked as a secretary, she has turned up dead in the Thames&mdash;and now the Ringer is on a mission of vengeance.</P><P>The vigilante walks the streets of the city again, and if the past is any indication, Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard won&rsquo;t have an easy time tracking him down. To complicate matters further, Meister is currently employed by the socially prominent family of the woman Wembury loves . . .</P> The basis for no less than five European films, this suspenseful British novel comes from one the early twentieth century&rsquo;s most popular writers of crime fiction.</div>

The Ringer

<div><P><B>An elusive gang leader and his minions frighten London and frustrate Scotland Yard in this classic crime thriller.</B></P><P>The secret organization whose members were known only as &ldquo;the Frogs&rdquo; was the subject of rumors and jokes&mdash;until serious crimes began to occur, one after another. The perpetrators, once caught, were found to bear tattooed frogs on their wrists and kept their mouths firmly shut, and the populace grew terrified of them.</P><P>The police were frustrated by their fruitless efforts to track down the leader of this strange gang. Then an officer who was working undercover and had finally managed to come face-to-face with the frightening figure was killed.</P><P>Now it&rsquo;s time for Detective Sergeant Elk of Scotland Yard to get involved. Fortunately, despite his shabby clothes, glum demeanor, and utter inability to get himself promoted, he&rsquo;s a sharper sleuth than he appears to be . . .</P> From Edgar Wallace, an enormously popular figure in early twentieth-century crime fiction, this is an intriguing tale of a nameless threat and a cop determined to track him down.</div>

The Fellowship of the Frog

<div><P><B>A secret society takes deadly revenge on London law enforcement in this 1926 mystery novel by the pioneering crime author.</B></P><P>Inspector Arnold &ldquo;Betcher&rdquo; 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.</P> When the judge who sentenced Shelton is murdered, Scotland Yard takes notice. And after Shelton&rsquo;s prosecutor and executioner are all killed by a shadowy organization known as &ldquo;The Terrible People,&rdquo; Betcher knows his turn is coming. But how do you stop a murder conspiracy orchestrated from beyond the grave?</div>

The Terrible People

<div><B>Twelve short stories centered around British officials in colonial Africa, part of the series by the early twentieth-century writer famous for <I>King Kong</I>.</B><BR />  <BR /> Readers of Edgar Wallace&rsquo;s Sanders of the River series will enjoy these sharp-witted adventure stories featuring Captain Hamilton and the inexperienced Lt. Augustus &ldquo;Bones&rdquo; Tibbetts. These sensational tales, more than a century old, reflect some of the attitudes of the time, but also provide a fascinating window into the culture and mindset of the historical British empire and life in Africa under foreign rule&mdash;which was directly observed by the author as both a soldier and a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, who also reported on atrocities in the Belgian Congo.</div>

Again Sanders

<div><B>A London police detective stumbles upon a bizarre burglary during a storm in a thriller by &ldquo;one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century&rdquo; (<I>Mystery Scene</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Cambridge-educated Richard Staines, newly promoted to DI by Scotland Yard, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in his career, but he is about to face his most profoundly puzzling case yet. As a policeman, he wouldn&rsquo;t typically break into a house&mdash;but when he finds himself trapped on a balcony in Belgravia during a thunderstorm, he smashes some glass in desperation to gain access to an acquaintance&rsquo;s property. Making his way through the dimness, he&rsquo;s shocked to encounter a bound and blindfolded man whose pockets are being rifled through&mdash;by a woman in an evening gown. When she turns, he&rsquo;s staring into the face of the lovely, kindhearted young nurse he met only hours earlier. And then everything goes black . . .</div>

The Double

<div><B>A conspiracy of smugglers try to frame a London police detective for murder in this classic mystery thriller.</B><BR />  <BR /> Although his neighbors suspect he is quite rich, Li Yoseph lives in a sagging, squalid wooden house overhanging a creek, and has a habit of holding lengthy, animated conversations with invisible friends, usually in a foreign tongue. The police are certain he&rsquo;s involved in smuggling, but they&rsquo;ve never been quite able to prove it. Now there are darker doings afoot than a bit of tobacco smuggling&mdash;including murder&mdash;and an attempt to pin the blame for it on Scotland Yard&rsquo;s Inspector Bradley. The detective will need to ascertain who really dumped a body in the Thames, and how much truth lies in an apparent madman&rsquo;s ravings . . .<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;One of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Mystery Scene</I></div>

The Flying Squad

<div><B>Reputations can be deceiving in this classic crime thriller featuring a jewel thief, a prominent London banker, and a determined detective . . .</B><BR />  <BR /> The man known as &ldquo;Gunner&rdquo; Haynes is a highly skilled jewel thief with a tough core and a gentlemanly veneer that have earned him some admirers. The respectable, well-connected London banker Luke Maddison runs in an entirely different circle, but still crosses paths with the criminal one winter night at the Ritz-Carlton, when Gunner&rsquo;s steadying hand saves Luke from a fall. In return, Luke does a favor for Gunner, and a certain bond is cemented. Later, when trouble arises, the two reunite, and DI Horace Bird, aka the Sparrow, along with a feisty female reporter working undercover, will find themselves pulled into a world of con men and killers . . .<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;One of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Mystery Scene</I></div>

The Gunner

<div><B>Fast-paced tales of crime and coppers from &ldquo;one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century&rdquo; </B><B>(<I>Mystery Scene</I>).</B>  <BR /><BR /> This collection presents a dozen classic detective stories that include &ldquo;The Mind-Readers,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Sirius Man,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Couper Buckle,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Guy from Memphis,&rdquo; and more featuring Chief Insp. Oliver Rater, a man of few words ironically nicknamed the Orator by his colleagues. But silent as he may be, there is much going on under the surface. These action-packed tales are written by the legendary British author Edgar Wallace, whose novels sold more than fifty million copies in his day.</div>

The Orator

<div><B>A murder mystery full of high finance and lowdown characters from &ldquo;one of the most popular writers of the early twentieth century&rdquo; (<I>Mystery Scene</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Lord Frensham is being swindled in the stock market, and his number-one suspect is Anthony Braid. But Braid has the nerve to suggest that it&rsquo;s actually Frensham&rsquo;s own nephew who&rsquo;s stealing from him. The truth behind the embezzlement will have to be untangled by Scotland Yard&rsquo;s Inspector Elk after Frensham is found dead in a highly staged &ldquo;suicide&rdquo; . . .</div>

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