The Complete Detective Sgt. Elk Series (6 Novels in One Edition). Edgar Wallace

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       Edgar Wallace

      The Complete Detective Sgt. Elk Series (6 Novels in One Edition)

      The Nine Bears, Silinski, The Fellowship of the Frog, The Joker, The Twister…

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-0166-2

      Table of Contents

       The Nine Bears

       Silinski – Master Criminal (new revised version of The Nine Bears)

       The Fellowship of the Frog

       The Joker

       The Twister

       The India-Rubber Men

       White Face

      The Nine Bears

       Table of Contents

       1. N.H.C

       2. A Business Consultation

       3. In Which a Certain Momentous Question Is Asked

       4. Which Relates to a Newspaper Suicide

       5. Count Poltavo Offers His Services

       6. A Stranger Comes to Burgos

       7. Some Disappearances

       8. The Ambassador Takes a Hand

       9. Introducing t.b.smith

       10. The Anticipators

       11. At Bronte’s Bank

       12. Murder

       13. Hyatt

       14. Sir George Dines

       15. The Dancing Girl

       16. Mary Brown

       17. Deportation

       18. In the “Journal” Office

       19. The Book

       20. At the Admiralty

       21. Poltavo Strikes

       22. The Convict From Ceutra

       23. The House on the Hill

       24. The Nine Bears

       25. In the Garden

       26. T.B. Smith Reports

       27. The Lost Warship

       28. The “Maria Braganza”

       29. A Matter of Insurance

       30. The “mad Warship”

       31. The Flight

       32. Poltavo Leaves Hurriedly

       33. At “Lolo”

       34. The Last of the Nine

      1. N.H.C

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      It was a bad night in London, not wild or turbulent, but swathed to the eyes like an Eastern woman in a soft grey garment of fog. It engulfed the walled canyons of the city through which the traffic had roared all day, plugged up the maze of dark side streets, and blotted out the open squares. Close to the ground it was thick, viscous, impenetrable, so that one could not see a yard ahead, and walked ghostlike, adventuring into a strange world.

      Occasionally it dispersed. In front of the opera house, numbers of arc-lights wrought a wavering mist-hung yellow square, into which a constant line of vehicles like monstrous shiny bugs emerged from the outer nowhere, disgorged their contents, and eclipsed again. And pedestrians in gay processional streamed across the ruddy glistening patch like figures on a slide.

      Conspicuous in the shifting throng was a boy, ostensibly selling violets, but with a keen eye upon the arriving vehicles. Suddenly he darted to the curb, where