The Complete Jimmie Dale Mysteries (All 4 Novels in One Edition). Frank L. Packard

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      Frank L. Packard

      The Complete Jimmie Dale Mysteries (All 4 Novels in One Edition)

      The First "Masked Hero": The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale...

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      ISBN 978-80-272-2159-2

      Table of Contents

       THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE

       THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE

       JIMMIE DALE AND THE PHANTOM CLUE

       JIMMIE DALE AND THE BLUE ENVELOPE MURDER

      THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       Part One: The Man in the Case

       Chapter I. The Gray Seal

       Chapter II. By Proxy

       Chapter III. The Mother Lode

       Chapter IV. The Counterfeit Five

       Chapter V. The Affair of the Pushcart Man

       Chapter VI. Devil's Work

       Chapter VII. The Thief

       Chapter VIII. The Man Higher Up

       Chapter IX. Two Crooks and a Knave

       Chapter X. The Alibi

       Chapter XI. The Stool-Pigeon

       Part Two: The Woman in the Case

       Chapter I. Below the Dead Line

       Chapter II. The Call to Arms

       Chapter III. The Crime Club

       Chapter IV. The Innocent Bystander

       Chapter V. On Guard

       Chapter VI. The Trap

       Chapter VII. The "Hour"

       Chapter VIII. The Tocsin

       Chapter IX. The Tocsin's Story

       Chapter X. Silver Mag

       Chapter XI. The Magpie

       Chapter XII. John Johansson—Four-two-eight

       Chapter XIII. The Only Way

       Chapter XIV. Out of the Darkness

       Chapter XV. Retribution

       Chapter XVI. "Death to the Gray Seal!"

      Part One:

       The Man in the Case

       Table of Contents

      Chapter I.

       The Gray Seal

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      Among New York's fashionable and ultra-exclusive clubs, the St. James stood an acknowledged leader—more men, perhaps, cast an envious eye at its portals, of modest and unassuming taste, as they passed by on Fifth Avenue, than they did at any other club upon the long list that the city boasts. True, there were more expensive clubs upon whose membership roll scintillated more stars of New York's social set, but the St. James was distinctive. It guaranteed a man, so to speak—that is, it guaranteed a man to be innately a gentleman. It required money, it is true, to keep up one's membership, but there were many members who were not wealthy, as wealth is measured nowadays—there were many, even, who were pressed sometimes to meet their dues and their house accounts, but the accounts were invariably promptly paid. No man, once in, could ever afford, or ever had the desire, to resign from the St. James Club. Its membership was cosmopolitan; men of every walk in life passed in and out of its doors, professional men and business men, physicians, artists, merchants, authors, engineers, each stamped with the "hall mark" of the St. James, an innate gentleman. To receive a two weeks' out-of-town visitor's card to the St. James was something to speak about, and men from Chicago, St. Louis, or San Francisco spoke of it with a sort of holier-than-thou air to fellow members of their own exclusive clubs, at home again.

      Is there any doubt that Jimmie Dale was a gentleman—an INNATE gentleman? Jimmie Dale's father had been a member of the St. James Club, and one of