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Mystery · First published 1913; selected complete 1930 Crime Club edition · English

The Fourth Plague

by Edgar Wallace

About this book

Professor Tillizini confronts the Red Hand, a criminal organization whose reach extends from Italy into England. Secret affiliations, family history, abduction and a series of bold maneuvers turn the pursuit into a contest with an opponent whose methods he understands unusually well.

Edgar Wallace builds the mystery around the Festini family, the danger facing Marjorie and the investigators’ effort to anticipate the organization’s next move. First published in 1913, the novel is presented here in the complete 1930 Crime Club edition, with its prologue, nineteen chapters and original conclusion.