Edgar Wallace
An elusive gang leader and his minions frighten London and frustrate Scotland Yard in this classic crime thriller.
The secret organization whose members were known only as “the Frogs” was the subject of rumors and jokes—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
...A secret society takes deadly revenge on London law enforcement in this 1926 mystery novel by the pioneering crime author.
Inspector Arnold “Betcher” 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.
When the judge who sentenced Shelton is murdered,...10) Bones in London
11) The Green Rust
12) Jack O' Judgment
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"In this pretty thoroughfare with its £100 p.a. houses (detached), its tiny carriage drives, its white muslin curtains hanging stiffly from glittering brass bands, its window boxes of clustering geraniums and its neat lawns, it was a tradition that no one house knew anything about its next-door neighbour-or wanted to know. You might imagine, did you find yourself deficient in charity, that such a praiseworthy attitude was in
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