The Case of the Courtlandt Jewels


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Dr. Huxton Rymer, an antagonist of detective Sexton Blake, has settled down to a seemingly honest life in rural England. But the temptations of crime are a bit to attractive to him and one proposal is just too tantalizing and inventive to be resisted. The results of that crime literally drop from the sky to Tinker's amazement-but the resolution takes Blake even to Paris where Rymer introduces the lovely and capable Mary Trent.







The Cryptogram


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The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada. Also known as "Our Lady of the Snows." This novel is a stirring romance of North-West Canada, published first in 1897. It tells the tale of a Hudson's Bay employee who becomes impossibly confused in romance and espionage in early Canada.










The Lumber Looters


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A story such as this is one to set your blood tingling. The clean, pure air of the frozen Canadian timber-lands, brisk and stirring action, and a plot embodying villainy versus daring detective work- that is the gist of it. Moreover, the author writes about a land he knows and loves. Not only does he take Sexton Blake there, but he takes you there, in spirit, too.







The Whole Story


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This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.







The Mystery of the Banana Plantation


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A down and out, Dr. Huxton Rymer is captured during a burglary; fortunately his captor is looking for an accomplice in another venture he has going on. Rymer welcomes an opportunity and they partner up, with a swindle sale of an island Banana Plantation in Costa Rica. Britisher, David Greig, visiting New York, buys the plantation only to be told that his title is void as he arrives at the island. Greig narrowly escapes death when he goes to claim the island. He travels to London to contract Sexton Blake to resolve the issue and the problem of duplicate ownership.