George Goodchild

> Tina lives in a shack near the Yukon River with her uncle, Peter Slade. When she finds a half-frozen, wounded man huddled outside their door one day, she realises he is the wanted bank robber Neale Kentish. She nurses Neale back to health, and they fall in love with each other before he makes his escape. When gold is struck at Dawson City, Tina's uncle insists she goes with him to stake their claims. When Tina's claim yields gold, Slade hatches a plot to capture Neale and blackmail Tina into handing over her claim to him in exchange for Neale's release.

>The conspiracy in this story has deep roots, and the young hero is launched into it hot upon his discharge from the Army while he is trying to adjust himself to a world which is strange to him, and in which, so far, he has little more than a precarious footing. There is never a dull moment from the commencement until the curtain rings down after a truly strange sequence of events.

>When Chief Inspector McLean is sent to solve the murder of a young man in the West End of London he quickly realises that the death is the work of 'The Scorpion', an international criminal whose identity is unknown. McLean's enquiries lead him to Cornwall where he meets Celia, a beautiful pianist, who he suspects is an accomplice of 'The Scorpion'. The Inspector finds himself caught-up in a series of hair-raising adventures before he succeeds in identifying the ruthless killer.

A slim collection of short stories, written during the eight years or so previous to its publications date of 1922.

> After his father's death, Gerald Lavering returns to England to sort out the family's estates Hartford Manor and Nancrannon in Cornwall. The houses bring only heartache to Jerry. His dear mother had died in Cornwall when he was a child and his father had immersed himself in civic affairs, ignoring his son and his homes. When Jerry decides to pay a final visit to Nancrannon, accompanied by his friend George Lashing and George's sister, Tessa, he learns the shocking truth about his mother's death.

Who was Jack O' Lantern? To Scotland Yard he was one of the cleverest criminals ever to pit his wits against their relentless machinery for man-finding. To Judge Wallington, known as the harshest magistrate in all Europe, his name recalled the trial of Tobias Lantern whom he had sentenced to death years ago with the help of a third jury after two others, hypnotized by Lantern's evil stare, had failed to arrive at a verdict—yet a man who had paid the supreme penalty for his crimes. To the English press Jack O' Lantern was the murderer of Richard Summers, Albert Gale, James Henling; all jurors who had convicted Tobias Lantern, and Sir Randolph Cantler, prosecuting attorney at the trial. Each new crime in all England was attributed to this amazing criminal.

> In this selection of Inspector McLean's varied cases, each story presents a baffling problem to the police and the reader. McLean, however, solves the mysteries by brilliantly unexpected methods of investigation and deduction. Such cases as the charred and unrecognisable body found in a lonely cottage on the Dorset cliffs, and the equally mysterious affair of the burnt-out racing car with a bullet in the radiator, are packed with tension and ingenuity.

Once again, the indefatigable Inspector McLean proves his ability as a sleuth who is both human and ingenious in a series of intriguing cases. Among the many baffling crimes are the murder of the pretty artist's model who collapsed while posing in a Chelsea studio, the trapping of the violent gangster, the Nightingale, who sang his sinister songs of death only at night, and a dozen others of equal tension and excitement.

> This mystery deals with the vicissitudes of a young girl who is brought, after years of absence from her birthplace, to meet her father for the first time. To her horror, her father tells her that he has just served fifteen years for murder. Now she must make up her mind whether she believes his plea of innocence. A young newspaper man soon finds himself in love with the girl and up to his neck in trouble. There is another murder to complicate matters, and yet another, but Inspector McLean unravels the tangle.

> Inspector McLean finds himself in a case of crime mixed up with art. Why was a picture stolen while in transit from London's Royal Academy to its purchaser? By what occult means did the Royal Academy artist depict with detailed accuracy the interior of a room in a country house he had never entered? And why the excavations in a Cornish garden following the mysterious disappearance of the painter's lovely young wife? The Inspector's search for the answers moves from the cliffs of Cornwall to the lagoons of Venice.

> On a liner homeward bound from India, a young man falls in love with a beautiful girl. Once home, there is no further contact. Soon after, a passenger from the boat is killed; then the girl is found dead in equally suspicious circumstances. Inspector McLean is assigned to the case and believes his main clue is a sketched cryptogram that was found with the girl's body. Unravelling the ambiguous meaning of the acrostic will surely provide the sole means to identifying the killer...

> This classic collection of crime stories follows the lines of its many forerunners. They have all the quick and vivid action associated with the famous detective's exploits, and will not disappoint McLean fans.

Anthology of prose and poetry by authors including John Milton, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse and G.K. Chesterton, set against the background of the World War I. Some of the stories also concern blindness.