by John Creasey
Creasey was born in Surrey in 1908 and, when not travelling extensively, lived between Bournemouth and Salisbury for most of his life. He died in England in 1973.
ALSO IN THIS SERIES
The Death Miser
Redhead
First Came a Murder
Death Round the Corner
The Mark of the Crescent
Thunder in Europe
The Terror Trap
Carriers of Death
Days of Danger
Death Stands By
Menace
Murder Must Wait
Panic!
Death by Night
The Island of Peril
Sabotage
Go Away Death
The Day of Disaster
Prepare for Action
No Darker Crime
Dark Peril
The Peril Ahead
The League of Dark Men
The Department of Death
The Enemy Within
Dead or Alive
A Kind of Prisoner
The Black Spiders
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Contents
1 Two Gentlemen Return
2 Craigie and Others
3 Who was the Lady?
4 Out of the Darkness
5 The Professor’s Papers
6 Jeremiah Warncliffe
7 More Mystery
8 Darkness Again
9 By Messenger
10 The Pace Quickens
11 Hold up
12 Battle by Night
13 Triumph for Forster
14 Says Mark
15 The Hush Hush Department
16 Re enter Warncliffe
17 More Action in Bournemouth
18 Versus the Syndicate
19 Where is the Professor?
20 ‘David Among Nations’
21 The Syndicate of Power