Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratu
Keywords: mystery, daffodil
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0755114825
ISBN-13: 9780755114825

When Mr Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur and owner of Lyne’s Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack Tarling to investigate another employee, Mr Milburgh, Lyne now changes his plans. Tarling and his Chinese companion refuse to become involved. They pay a visit to Odette’s flat. In the hall Tarling meets Sam, convicted felon and protégé of Lyne. Next morning Tarling discovers a body. The hands are crossed on the breast, adorned with a handful of daffodils.

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratu
Keywords: river, sanders
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0755115163
ISBN-13: 9780755115167

Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government ’to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn.’ Written when world powers were vying for colonial honour, Sanders of the River encapsulates the beliefs and assumptions that motivated such quests. There is religious-palava, raiding-palava, and all the while, Bosambo, magnificent chief of the Ochori watches on.

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratu
Keywords: squad, flying
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0755114922
ISBN-13: 9780755114924

The creek between the canal and the river flows under Lady’s Stairs, a crazy wooden house inhabited by Li Yoseph - known to the police as a smuggler. The neighbourhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Mark McGill and the nervous Tiser arrive on the scene with Ann Perryman, sister of Ronnie. According to Mark (and confirmed by Li Yoseph), Bradly of Scotland Yard is responsible for Ronnie’s death. Then Li Yoseph disappears...

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Keywords: reads, retro, serpent, feathered
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0340922869
ISBN-13: 9780340922866

Miss Ella Creed is remarkably calm after being knocked unconscious and losing her jewels to a pack of thieves—the gems were just imitations, after all. But panic sets in when she discovers a card tied around her neck that holds a crude drawing of a feathered serpent. Reporter Peter Dewin soon discovers that a wealthy artist, a boxing promoter, and a nouveau riche stockbroker all share her fear. But why? And just who is behind the feathered serpent crimes?

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratu
Keywords: abbot, black
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 075511471X
ISBN-13: 9780755114719

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.

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: sanders
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1434461688
ISBN-13: 9781434461681

Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: mystery, oak, three
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-01-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0755115201
ISBN-13: 9780755115204

While brothers Lexington and Socrates Smith, authority on fingerprints and blood stains, are guests of Peter Mandle and his stepdaughter, they observe a light flashing from the direction of Mr Jethroe’s house. COME THREE OAKS, it spells in Morse. A ghostly figure is seen hurrying across the moonlit lawn. Early next morning the brothers take a stroll, and there, tied to an oak branch, is a body - a purple mark where the bullet struck.