"The Governor of Chi-Foo and other Detective Stories" by Edgar Wallace. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Edgar Wallace. The Governor of Chi-Foo and other Detective Stories
The Governor of Chi-Foo and other Detective Stories
Table of Contents
The Governor of Chi-Foo
The Compleat Criminal
On the Witney Road
The Pick-Up
Mother o’ Mine
The King’s Brahm
The Greek Poropulos
Kid Glove Harry
The Treasure of the. Kalahari
The Weakling
Bulfox Asleep
The Perfect Gentleman
The Prison-Breakers
Footnotes
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Edgar Wallace
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The superintendent took from his pocket a folded sheet of manuscript. He explained in his French the purport of the appeal which headed it, giving the ancestry and the social position of the great names which offered their patronage. Huge sprawling names they were, monstrously indistinct save in the money column where prudence and self-preservation had advised that the figures of the donations should be unmistakable.
What a relief! Alphonse Didet squared his shoulders and filled his lungs with the air of freedom and respectability.
