The novel takes place in 1920. Maxwell Cheyne a First World War naval veteran and short story writer from Dartmouth is lunching at a Plymouth hotel where he is doped and his home burgled. A few weeks later he is tricked onto a ship and held without food and water until he hands over information about a vital letter, sent to him several years ago by a friend, that the gang had been searching for. After he has complied they put him ashore and threaten him to take no further interest in the matter. Instead he trails them, catching a train into London in pursuit where he tracks them down to a house in the under-construction Metroland suburb of Wembley. Attempting to steal back the contents of the letter he is coshed on the head by the gang and rescued by Joan Merrill, a young female artist from Chelsea who takes him to hospital and in search of excitement agrees to join his missions to recover the stolen letter which appears to contain some kind of ciphered code.
| Author: Freeman Wills Crofts |
| Publisher: Murine Press |
| Publication Date: Jun 22, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1957990554 |
| ISBN-13: 9781957990552 |
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