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Mar 22, 2008 · The Four Just Men : Edgar Wallace : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Edgar Wallace. Publication date. 1920. Publisher. Small, Maynard & company. Collection. americana. Book from the collections of. Harvard University. Language. English.
- Bibliographic Note
- Prologue—Thery's Trade
- I. — A Newspaper Story
- II. — The Faithful Commons
- III. — One Thousand Pounds Reward
- IV. — Preparations
- V. — The Outrage at The 'Megaphone'
THE origins of this book are described in the following passage from Edgar Wallace's autobiography People: "... I founded a little publishing business, which was called "The Tallis Press." It occupied one room in Temple Chambers, and from here I issued "Smithy" at 1s. and sold about 30,000 copies. "Emboldened by this success, I sat down to turn a s...
IF you leave the Plaza del Mina, go down the narrow street, where, from ten till four, the big flag of the United States Consulate hangs lazily; through the square on which the Hotel de la France fronts, round by the Church of Our Lady, and along the clean, narrow thoroughfare that is the High Street of Cadiz, you will come to the Café of the Natio...
ON the fourteenth day of August, 19—, a tiny paragraph appeared at the foot of an unimportant page in London's most sober journal to the effect that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had been much annoyed by the receipt of a number of threatening letters, and was prepared to pay a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would give such in...
SOMEBODY—was it Mr. Gladstone?—placed it on record that there is nothing quite so dangerous, quite so ferocious, quite so terrifying as a mad sheep. Similarly, as we know, there is no person quite so indiscreet, quite so foolishly talkative, quite so amazingly gauche, as the diplomat who for some reason or other has run off the rails. There comes a...
TO say that England was stirred to its depths—to quote more than one leading article on the subject—by the extraordinary occurrence in the House of Commons, would be stating the matter exactly. The first intimation of the existence of the Four Just Men had been received with pardonable derision, particularly by those newspapers that were behindhand...
WHEN an advertisement appeared in the Newspaper Proprietor announcing that there was— For sale: An old-established zinco-engraver's business with a splendid new plant and a stock of chemicals. Everybody in the printing world said "That's Etherington's." To the uninitiated a photo-engraver's is a place of buzzing saws, and lead shavings, and noisy l...
THE editor of the Megaphone, returning from dinner, met the super-chief on the stairs. The super-chief, boyish of face, withdrew his mind from the mental contemplation of a new project (Megaphone House is the home of new projects) and inquired after the Four Just Men. "The excitement is keeping up," replied the editor. "People are talking of nothin...
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2 THE FOUR JUST MEN suspicious, a nd George Manfred, with his grey shot beard and single eyegla ss, were less fa mous in the criminal world, each was a gm t man, as you shall learn. Manfred laid down the Her a ldo di Ma drid, removed his eyeglass, rubbed it with a spotless handkerchief, and laughed quietly. These Russians are droll, he commen ...
1 The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace – Prologue 5:30 2 Leon twisted his knuckles down and struck forward… 3:24 3 He mounted the horse I had brought… 4:00 4 Chapter 1: A Newspaper Story 4:40 5 ‘Here is one of the letters,’ and Sir Philip produced a sheet… 3:41 6 The Daily Megaphone is able to publish a full list… 3:13
