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The Avenger

Edgar Wallace

The story centers around Captain Mike Brixan, an intelligence officer who is reluctantly drawn into a murder investigation involving a series of grisly decapitations attributed to a notorious figure known as the Head-Hunter.

"The Avenger" by Edgar Wallace is a mystery novel. The story centers around Captain Mike Brixan, an intelligence officer who is reluctantly drawn into a murder investigation involving a series of grisly decapitations attributed to a notorious figure known as the Head-Hunter.

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Captain Mike Brixan had certain mild and innocent superstitions. He believed, for example, that if he saw a green crow in a field he would certainly see another green crow before the day was out. And when, at the bookstand on Aix la Chapelle station, he saw and purchased a dime novel that was comprehensively intituled “Only an Extra, or the Pride of Hollywood,” he was less concerned as to how this thrilling and dog-eared romance came to be on offer at half a million marks (this was in the days when marks were worth money) than as to the circumstances in which he would again hear or read the word “extras” in the sense of a supernumerary and unimportant screen actress.

The novel did not interest him at all. He read one page of superlatives and turned for relief to the study of a Belgian time-table. He was bored, but not so bored that he could interest himself in the sensational rise of the fictitious Rosa Love from modest obscurity to a press agent and wealth.

But “extra” was a new one on Michael, and he waited for the day to bring its inevitable companion.

To say that he was uninterested in crime, that burglars were less thrilling than golf scores, and the record of murders hardly worth the reading, might convey a wrong impression to those who knew him as the cleverest agent in the Foreign Office Intelligence Department.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I the Head-Hunter
  2. 02Chapter II Mr. Sampson Longvale Calls
  3. 03Chapter III the Niece
  4. 04Chapter IV the Leading Lady
  5. 05Chapter V Mr. Lawley Foss
  6. 06Chapter VI the Master of Griff
  7. 07Chapter VII the Swords and Bhag
  8. 08Chapter VIII Bhag
  9. 09Chapter IX the Ancestor
  10. 10Chapter X the Open Window
  11. 11Chapter XI the Mark on the Window
  12. 12Chapter XII a Cry from a Tower
  13. 13Chapter XIII the Trap That Failed
  14. 14Chapter XIV Mendoza Makes a Fight
  15. 15Chapter XV Two from the Yard
  16. 16Chapter XVI the Brown Man from Nowhere
  17. 17Chapter XVII Mr. Foss Makes a Suggestion
  18. 18Chapter XVIII the Face in the Picture
  19. 19Chapter XIX the Midnight Visit
  20. 20Chapter XX a Narrow Escape
  21. 21Chapter XXI the Erasure
  22. 22Chapter XXII the Head
  23. 23Chapter XXIII Clues at the Tower
  24. 24Chapter XXIV the Marks of the Beast
  25. 25Chapter XXV the Man in the Car
  26. 26Chapter XXVI the Hand
  27. 27Chapter XXVII the Caves
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII the Tower
  29. 29Chapter XXIX Bhag’s Return
  30. 30Chapter XXX the Advertisement
  31. 31Chapter XXXI John Percival Liggitt
  32. 32Chapter XXXII Gregory’s Way
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII the Trap That Failed
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV the Search
  35. 35Chapter XXXV What Happened to Adele
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI the Escape
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII at the Tower Again
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII the Cavern of Bones
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX Michael Knows for Sure
  40. 40Chapter XL “the Widow”
  41. 41Chapter XLI the Death
  42. 42Chapter XLII Camera!
  43. 43Transcriber Notes

About this edition

Author
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
215 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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