For Safe Deposit E-Book

Hal Meredith

• Herausgeber: Wildside Press
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 14

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

When Lord Arlington arrives to pick up his priceless collection of rubies from safe deposit, he discovers they have disappeared. But how could it have happened from behind locked doors in one of the safest places in England? Sexton Blake investigates!

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Table of Contents

FOR SAFE DEPOSIT, by Hal Meredith

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION, by Karl Wurf

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

FOR SAFE DEPOSIT,by Hal Meredith

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

First published in Answers, June 26, 1909.

Published by Wildside Press LLC.

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INTRODUCTION,by Karl Wurf

Sexton Blake, a fictional British detective, appeared in more than 4,000 novels and short stories over the last 130 years. The character—whose popularity rivaled that of Sherlock Holmes in his day—has appeared in comic strips, radio series, movies, television programs, books, and newspapers since his first appearance in 1893.

Blake was created by Harry Blyth, who published the first story under the pseudonym “Hal Meredeth.” Blake’s first appearance, “The Missing Millionaire,” was a short story published in The Halfpenny Marvel on December 20, 1893. It was not an terribly impressive debut and did little to signal the arrival of a major fictional character. However, Blyth persisted and published additional stories featuring Blake until his death in 1898, at which point the stories were written by a lost of at least 200 different authors. The character, as he gained name familiarity, began to appear in a in a variety of story papers until 1904, when the character began to take off in a big way due to the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. At that point, readers were hooked on Holmes and looking for more of the same. They got it in spades with Sexton Blake. Indeed, the similarities between the two characters became more and more pronounced over the years.

Sexton Blake found a regular home in the story paper Union Jack until it became Detective Weekly