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• Edgar Wallace, a British novelist, wrote the 1920 suspense novel The Daffodil Mystery. Starring in it are Chinese assistant Ling Chu and detective Jack Tarling. Odette Rider is fired by Thornton Lyne for turning down his favours. Investigator Jack Tarling, who had been working in China and had just returned to London, went to the store to talk about the situation when his cousin Thorton Lyne's cashier Milburgh embezzled money from his firm. Out of annoyance with Odette rather than anybody else, Lyne decides to attempt to blame the theft on her. Odette wins Tarling over without delay. When Lyne is found dead in the park with one of Odette's nightgowns wrapped over his gunshot wound, it doesn't seem good for her. But Tarling is adamant about proving her innocence.Milburgh is repulsive, and Lyne hisses. Although she may be gorgeous, they don't really know one another well enough to talk about love. Ling Chu is evasive and not fully trustworthy. The text is colourless and serves just to forward the story.

• A fictitious blind investigator named Max Carrados appears in Ernest Bramah's 1914 collection of mystery stories and books, Four Max Carrados Detective Stories. In the Strand Magazine, the four Max Carrados detective stories coexisted with the Sherlock Holmes adventures. The Carrados stories routinely outsold the Holmes stories at the time, even though they didn't have the same length. Bramah was frequently billed above Arthur Conan Doyle. Max Carrados and The Eyes of Max Carrados, according to George Orwell, "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading," together with those of Doyle and R. Austin Freeman. In the first narrative, "The Coin of Dionysius," Max Carrados and his regular sidekick Mr. Carlyle's personalities are described. Private investigator Mr. Carlyle oversees a business that focuses primarily on divorce and defalcation. For an expert opinion on a tetradrachm of Dionysius the Elder of Sicily that he suspects may have been a counterfeit put into a famous collection during a theft, he is led to Wynn Carrados' residence at The Turrets in Richmond, London. When they first meet, the blind Carrados quickly recognizes Mr. Carlyle as Louis Calling, a former classmate from St. Michael's.

• The author of I Will Repay is Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Before the French revolution, in 1784, the narrative begins. Rich Paul Déroulède insulted the youthful Vicomte de Marny by referring to his most recent fling, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had no intention of becoming involved in the argument, but he has the propensity to become involved in trouble by accident, which is ""no doubt a legacy left to him by his bourgeois lineage."" The Duc d'Orléans, the boy's father, is offended by the insult and dares his son to a fight. Vicomte, furious at his son's behavior despite being from a noble family, is no match for Désiré Dénouez-Drouot, who disarms him and murders him with bare hands.Juliette Marny sneaked her way into Citizen-Deputy Déroulède's home on August 19, 1793, and had her sign an oath to ruin him. She keeps planning retribution on her host since she doesn't realize that he merely wants to atone for the loss of her brother.Although Juliette has promised to ruin him, Paul Déroulede falls head over heels in love with her. She publishes a letter criticizing her host, but she ignores his affection for her. On their way from the courthouse to the jail, the condemned couple is rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel and his companions.

• Bat Wing : Knox and Paul Harley are speaking while seated in Paul Harley's office. In addition to being a private investigator, Harvey advises the British Empire's political establishment. When Colonel Juan Menendez enters the room, the two are discussing what position Paul should adopt next. Paul thinks that his fear of being pursued by someone is just delusion. Menendez has only ever seen the shadow of the person, but he is nevertheless certain that they are watching him. Then Menendez reveals a bat wing that had been left for him. Harley is then abruptly thrust into a world of voodoo, vampires, and murder!

• Tales of Chinatown is a collection of short stories that are all, essentially, situated in London's Chinatown (Limehouse at the time they were written). Similar to Sax Rohmer's collections of Egyptian short stories, they do not all include the same cast of characters, and Fu Manchu is conspicuously absent. Chief Inspector Red Kerry (of "Dope" fame) is a major character in the first narrative two. The third story, which concerns Detective Sergeant Durham and his superior Chief Inspector Red Kerry, is told by a friend of Paul Harley (who is not there). Paul Harley is back in action in the fourth, fifth, and sixth stories. The seventh story is arguably Rohmer's most well-known and strongest work. Even though Kerry is only mentioned briefly, the eighth story is set in his home city of Limehouse. In the ninth narrative, a buddy of Paul Harley (who is once more out of town) is once more entangled in a plot involving intrigue and retribution. The last story has a femme fatale who captivates and seduces every man she encounters. Is it hypnotism, drugs, or pheromones?

• Agatha Christie's detective novel The Murder on the Links was first released in 1923, in March in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co. and in May in the UK by The Bodley Head. It is the second book involving Arthur Hastings and Hercule Poirot. Retail price for the UK edition was seven shillings. Because the action is set in northern France, Poirot has a hostile rival from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's extensive recall of prior or comparable crimes helps in solving the crimes. An interesting subplot in the book involves Hastings falling in love, which Agatha "greatly desired" because it would send him to married bliss in Argentina. Paul Renauld has asked Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings for assistance, so they go to Merlinville-Sur-Mer, France. When they go there, the local police meet them and inform them that Renauld was discovered dead that morning, stabbed in the back with a knife, and dumped next to a golf course. Mother of Marthe vanishes once more. Hastings and his Cinderella, who is revealed to be Bella Duveen's twin sister Dulcie, will travel to South America with Jack, Hastings, and his mother.

• In the short story/novelette A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American West.There are two retribution arcs in the tale. A wealthy young woman experiences abuse, humiliation, and abandonment from her new husband in the main plot. When the child is older, the mother finds out that he has a bloodhound-like extraordinary sense of smell. In order to ruin the reputation of the kid's biological father, the mother urges the youngster to locate him.In it, Archy Stillman utilizes his sense of smell to solve a murder that might have been prevented if Archy and Sherlock Holmes had followed a rational plan.This is a spoof on mystery novels by Mark Twain. In the second arc, Sherlock Holmes is shown as using implausible amounts of ""scientific procedures"" yet still coming to the incorrect conclusion. The ""4th wall"" was broken by Sam Clemens/Mark Twain, who then emerged as himself at the story's midpoint.

• The novel Tom Sawyer, Detective was written by Mark Twain in 1896. It is a continuation of Tom Sawyer Abroad (1876), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). (1894). In this parody of the wildly famous detective novels of the day, Tom Sawyer tries to investigate a mysterious murder. The story is recounted in Huck Finn's first-person narrative style, just like in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The plot of the novel, according to a 1909 accusation made by Danish schoolteacher Valdemar Thoresen in an essay published in the magazine Maaneds, was lifted verbatim from Steen Blicher's short story The Vicar of Weilby. Twain's secretary sent a note to Mr. Thoresen explaining that Mr. Clemens had not read the book you mentioned or any translations or adaptations of it that he was aware of. Blicher's work had been translated into German but not English. Twain/Clemens had the same right to utilize the subject matter as Blicher because it predated Blicher (the 1626 trial of Pastor Sren Jensen Quist of Vejlby).  

• The Rome Express" is a crime thriller novel by Arthur Griffith. The narration opens on One morning in March, as the Rome Express, the direttissimo, or most direct, approached Paris, the passengers of the sleeping car became aware that something was seriously wrong with the vehicle. The worst thing was confirmed when the porter forced open door number 7 of the first-class carriage after knocking on it but getting no response. This story has a turn when the victim of the stabbing was found lying dead. The law naturally takes its course, thus M. Floçon, a detective, was called in to look into the case and when he speaks with the passenger, he learns a shocking fact about the deceased. To know the shocking fact, readers should read this complete book which is interestingly written by Sir Griffth.

• The Sign of the Four is the second novel by British Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. The story begins on a foggy day in 1888 when Dr. Watson confronts Holmes about his cocaine use. Holmes is bored because he has no problem to solve; shortly thereafter Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a case. Miss Morstan tells Holmes that her father Captain Arthur Morstan has arrived in London on a leave from the Andaman Islands. He requested her to be in Langham Hotel, but he is missing when she arrived. She contacted Major John Sholto who worked with her father, but he denied having seen Morstan. Holmes, Watson, and Mary meet with Sholto's son Thaddeus, the anonymous sender of the pearls, who explains that Morstan had visited Major Sholto to demand his half of a great treasure. Where is Arthur Morstan, is he alive or dead? How will Holmes solve the case? Read the book to know how Holmes solves the mystery.

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