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The day Clay Shelton is set to be hanged, he requests to speak with the inspector who arrested him, Arnold “Betcher” Long. He tells Long that the Gallows Hand will have its revenge. Assuming he is a dead man trying to delay the inevitable, Long ignores him. But when the judge who sentenced Shelton is murdered, he finally starts to take notice.

In his Four Just Men series, Edgar Wallace comes up with something different: the ‘villains’ are not necessarily bad people, and the pursuers of justice, the Four Just Men, as they call themselves, are acting outside the law. They argue that their actions are for the public good, and dispassionately eke the ultimate revenge — death — on their victims. In their turn, the Four Just Men are pursued by the police, but somehow remain our heroes.

Kuschelige Weihnachten? Von wegen! Mörder und Halunken machen keine Weihnachtsferien - und so haben auch Ermittler keine besinnlichen und erholsamen Feiertage. Sherlock Holmes spürt den Dieb eines Diamanten auf, der in einer Weihnachtsgans gefunden wurde, während Miss Marple vor dem prasselnden Kaminfeuer von einem Mord erzählt. Bei einem traditionellen Weihnachtsessen verschwindet ein Halsband.

A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed.

This audiobook contains four classic detective short stories, including "The Blue Cross" by G.K. Chesterton, "The Five Orange Pips" by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Treasure Hunt" by Edgar Wallace, and "The Flying Stars" by G.K. Chesteron.

The brutal murder of a woman in a lonely beach cottage, huge footprints found nearby, a meandering tramp singing snatches of opera in the night! Superintendent Minter - "Sooper", rattles around the countryside on his noisy motorbike and tries to find a connection. Hampered by amateur detective Gordon Cardew, aided and admired by lawyer Jim Ferraby and the beautiful Elfa Leigh, Sooper finds the case further complicated by another murder.

https://www.solgood.org - Check out our Streaming Service for our full collection; hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, sounds for sleep/relaxation, and original podcasts - all ad-free!!t is early twentieth century England and all is not well. Innocent citizens are found murdered by an apparent snake bite accredited to a diabolical villain named Dr. Oberzohn. The infamous Dr. Oberzohn has designs on a fortune coming into the hands of a fair damsel. Hoping to come to the rescue is a team of vigilantes called the Three Just Men. What ensues is an intriguing battle between good and...

Wallace, a master British storyteller, creates a fascinating tale. It tells of the fictional mystery author, John Lexdale, who is caught in a plot concocted by an unscrupulous millionaire. The fictional author is entrapped in the strange circumstances, becomes charged with murder and sentenced to prison. At one point he is told his wife has been killed and pledges revenge.

This audiobook contains a collection of crime short stories by the greats, including Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Wallace.

A wonderful collection of 30 of the greatest detective and mystery stories ever written. Featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, Dr. Thorndyke and Madame Rosika Storey. 1. 'Who killed Charlie Winpole?' By Ernest Bramah 2. 'The Blue Cross' by G. K. Chesterton 3. 'The Problem of the Five Marks' by Melville Davisson Post 4. 'The Comedy at Fountain Cottage' by Ernest Bramah 5. 'The Mysterious Card' by Cleveland Moffett 6. 'The Card Unveiled' by Cleveland Moffett

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age. The Mind-Readers is a classic detective story of a Scotland Yard detective determined to trap the master criminal who has just executed a remarkable and ingenious emerald heist. The only way to outwit the thief is going to be to read his mind.

A rollicking good tale about 4 men righting wrongs the courts did not do. These 4 act honorably by giving most of their targets a chance to escapee their form of vigilante justices. This case is about an English Cabinet minister set to expel refugees of principle from England to labor camps or execution in their despotic homelands.

Bei der Verhaftung in einer Londoner Bank erschießt ein jahrelang gesuchter Scheckfälscher und Betrüger einen Polizisten. Als er daraufhin wegen Mordes angeklagt wird und gehenkt werden soll, veranlasst er als seinen letzten Wunsch das Erscheinen aller freiwillig oder unfreiwillig an seiner Verhaftung und Verurteilung beteiligten Personen, um ihnen seine Rache zu prophezeien. Nach der Hinrichtung sind diese Warnungen zunächst vergessen, bis ein Inspektor, der maßgeblich an der Verhaftung beteiligt war, nur knapp einem Mordanschlag entgeht.

Mr J G Reeder, a brilliant and quietly unassuming detective, is a middle aged man whose speciality for more than twenty years has been to deal exclusively with bank robbers and forgers. "I see evil in everything," he declares, "… in dying rose bushes, in horseshoes - in poetry even. I have the mind of a criminal. It is deplorable!" In these four casefiles, The Poetical Policeman, The Treasure Hunt, The Troupe, and The Stealer of Marble, the sheer genius of Mr Reeder shines forth.

The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When Glover offers her money she is shocked. However, despite the strange conditions attached, it is a proposal she cannot afford to ignore.

A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B.

Zahvatyvajushhij roman vydajushhegosja mastera ostrosjuzhetnogo detektiva, osnovopolozhnika literaturnogo zhanra «triller», sozdatelja znamenitogo King-Konga, anglijskogo pisatelja i scenarista Jedgara Uollesa (1875 - 1932). Proizvedenija pisatelja mnogie gody dostavljajut istinnoe naslazhdenie ljubiteljam ostrosjuzhetnogo detektiva vo vsem mire. V psihiatricheskoj bol'nice dlja osobo opasnyh prestupnikov, mnogie gody tiho i spokojno nahoditsja Dzhon Flak, kotorogo nazyvajut "samym izobretatel'nym zhulikom v mire". Krome togo, ego obvinjajut v devjati ubijstvah.

The deceptively mild mannered detective, Mr. J.G. Reeder devises a cunning plan to set a thief to catch a murderer.

A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers, including 'The Cone' by H. G. Wells, 'The Dream Woman' by Wilkie Collins, 'Fortunes Adrift' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon, 'The Table Under the Tree' by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 'In Yeddo Bay' by Jack London and many more gripping short stories by famous writers.

Michael Limmerburg, Besitzer der größten Buchmacherfirma Englands, hat sich durch betrügerische Machenschaften ein Vermögen aufgebaut. Doch als er wegen unsauberer Manipulationen vor den Jockeyklub-Ausschuss geladen wird, wittert Anthony, bekannt als "der Preller", seine Chance. Mit einem raffinierten Plan will er Limmerburgs unrechtmäßig erworbenes Geld abschöpfen und ihm eine Lektion erteilen. Der Buchmacher glaubt, den Ausgang des Rennens kontrollieren zu können – dabei ahnt er nicht, dass er selbst das Ziel eines raffinierten Betrugs ist.