Louis Tracy
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A Golden Age mystery featuring Scotland Yard's formidable detective duo: Chief Superintendent Winter and Inspector Furneaux.
A peaceful night in the small village of Sleaford is disturbed when a local constable is attacked by a mysterious assailant. Soon thereafter, an even worse disaster strikes. Financial magnate Charles Lanson is found dead, stabbed in the library of his nearby castle.
Luckily, Chief Superintendent Winter of Scotland's...
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When a writer emerges from a London theater, he notices an attractive young woman and an older man waiting for their car. He arrives home after a short delay and notices the older man, whom he'd overheard tell his companion he was stopping at his club, outside the building.
Before going up to his flat, Number 16, the writer sees the man enter the building and pay a brief visit to Flat 17, the home of a widow, and then leave.
The next day, the writer...
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This early work by Louis Tracy was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914' is a novel about the horrors of the first year of the Great War. The New York Times Book Review published this critique of the work: "The Human mind is so constituted that it becomes deadened by the weight of numbers, needing the personal, the individual, to awaken its liveliest sympathies....
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Heading into a typhoon in the South China Sea, the Sirdar is on a course that will forever change the life of one of its most spirited and attractive passengers, Iris Deane. When the ship breaks in two on a barrier reef, the young woman is pulled to safety by Robert Jenks, a sailor who is more than he seems. The shipwreck's only survivors, the two find themselves washed ashore on a desert island, where they encounter untold adventures and a blossoming...
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British journalist Louis Tracy wrote more than twenty-five novels that emphasized adventure, mystery, and romance, and this story has them all … a tale blending intrigue and murder in a rainy London. Two detectives … Winter and Furneaux, who constantly badger one another, are both quarrelsome and perceptive with Furneaux once remarking, "I can assure you it's a plot and a half."
When writer Frank Theydon emerges from a London theater, he notices...