The Hand Of Power.

EDGAR WALLACE

Publication: The Mystery League, Inc, Publishers, 1930, New York

First U.S. edition. First book in the series. Fine in attractive dust jacket lightly rubbed on the spine. The first book in the series that was made available through United Cigar, Whelan, and Neve stores. Dr. Laffin is the dishonest master of a secret society whose membership divides a yearly prize of $250,000. Some of these people are Betty Carew, loved by the London theatrical world, yet of strange parentage; Bill Holbrook, American newspaper expert; Insp. Bullott, Scotland Yard's index man on his first outside case, and Captain Hale, seventy-five by fifty coarse inches of muscle and bone. Through the tangled web of murder, torture and robbery, plot within plot slowly unravels, weaving the loose ends of crime into justice. Dust jacket art by "Gene."

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