When a prominent surgeon commits suicide and an unknown wife shows up, the Op and other agents follow suspect after suspect to untangle a decades-old conspiracy. . In a busy hour, a hit-and-run leads the Op to a print shop where he's mobbed
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Bat Man by Lew Merrill
Basil by Wilkie Collins
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. This is a mystery and a novel of sexual suspense and experimentation, early for its time.
Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mr
Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the
Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War
One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the
French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula
for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair
uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies,
steal secret weapons, and fall in love.