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Edgar Wallace. The Edgar Wallace Reader of Mystery and Adventure
The Edgar Wallace Reader of Mystery and Adventure
Table of Contents
1. THE GOVERNOR OF CHI-FOO
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2. THE COMPLEAT CRIMINAL
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3. ON THE WITNEY ROAD
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4. THE PICK-UP
First published in John Bull's Summer Annual, 1927
5. MOTHER O' MINE
6. THE KING'S BRAHM
7. THE GREEK POROPULOS
Published in The Weekly Tale-Teller, November 19, 1910
8. KID GLOVE HARRY
9. THE TREASURE OF THE KALAHARI
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10. THE WEAKLING
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11. BULFOX ASLEEP
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12. THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN
13. THE PRISON-BREAKERS
14. THE STRETELLI CASE
15. THE LOOKER AND THE LEAPER
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16. THE MAN WHO NEVER LOST
THE END
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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.
