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When the Mounted Police's best man-hunter disappears after arresting Alphonse La Rue, Sergeant Dan Keane is dispatched to locate the two men. La Rue is an infamous criminal, the leader of the gang responsible for terrorizing the frozen North and stealing several hundred thousand ...
Joan Wentworth, a newly qualified nurse, nearly faints from the ether whilst assisting the famous surgeon, Dr. Lancaster, and is promptly suspended from her job. That evening, when she pleads with him to reinstate her, she is surprised to be invited to work at his hospice that se...
This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Ma...
The Free Traders deal fur and whisky, debouching their way through the Canadian northern territories. Pitted against them are the country's soldier-police, the Northwest Mounted. Lee Anderson, Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant, is on a mission to find a man wanted for murder...
Joe Bostock and his chief engineer Will Carruthers are engaged in building a railway line in the wilds of Manitoba that will open up rich wheat lands for settlers - but the Big Muskeg swamp seems likely to ruin the construction scheme. When an unseen assailant treacherously picks...
Rich spinster Abbie Starr dies in her mansion without leaving a will. Her fortune is thought to have been converted into securities that have been hidden in the mansion - but searches there fail to find anything except a big overdraft. The courts give what is left to cousins Jenn...
Investigative lawyer Langton has solved many bizarre cases with the help of his friend Peter Crewe, who possesses such an extraordinary photographic memory that he never forgets a face. Here Langton relates twelve stories featuring audacious jewel robberies, scientific geniuses g...
When New York department store magnate Cyrus Embrich is found stabbed to death at his office desk, the police have little evidence to go on. Embrich's secretary reveals that her employer had been in fear of his life, and in the event of anything happening to him, he had asked her...
After following a lone husky on the street, Paul Hewlett encounters the dog's owner - a beautiful young woman in furs, who is then savagely set upon by two strangers who attempt to abduct her. Thanks to Paul and the faithful hound, the would-be kidnappers are repelled, and he tak...