Blue Hand

Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton's infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy's mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim receives alarming news that his new love interest, Eunice, has accepted a new job as live-in secretary to Digby's mother. Soon after, Eunice receives a message from a mysterious intruder that her life is in danger and that she should leave the Digby house. As time passes, it becomes apparent that Digby, ruthless in his pursuit of wealth and women, has set his sights on Eunice. Eunice's parents have passed away, but something in her history doesn't sit well with Jim's inquiring mind. As he investigates he's surprised to learn that his neighbor, a beautiful invalid, has also been making inquiries about Eunice's past, and has more than a casual interest in both Eunice and Jim. Blue Hand was published in 1925. If you enjoy classic British mysteries filled with inheritance schemes, missing heirs, and dangerous secrets, Edgar Wallace's masterful storytelling will keep you guessing until the final page. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric London settings and intricate plots where nothing is quite what it seems, this gripping tale of family fortune and deadly deception delivers all the suspense and clever twists that made Wallace one of the masters of crime fiction. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)