When eccentric Ezra Boonton retired from financial circles with a huge fortune and a reputation for shady dealings, he left behind him a score of crippled corporations, which his manipulations had bled to the bone, and the disparaging title of the "Spider of the Street."Seemingly a large portion of his wealth was spent on his new country estate, well fortified, and containing every safeguard against the many threats of personal violence his ruthless methods had resulted in. Steel doors, electric wiring, alarms, and personal bodyguards all protected the inhabitants of his home, yet through them stalked the Dark Angel in a series of visits that left tragedy in his wake.Captain Janos Catlin of the State Police found in this weird house with its air of impending horror circumstances foreign to even his wide experience in the solution of fantastic cases. That his presence was resented by even those who had summoned him and that every obstacle possible was raised by his oddly assorted companions still further complicated his already difficult position.Mr. Mason has reached a new level of deftness in his characterizations of old Ezra Boonton, wily, degenerate, and neurotic; Dr. Lawes, suave and professional; and Nurse Delray, exotic yet tempered with the world's hardness, and the reader will find these and other personalities drawn with the utmost vividness.

In the bay of Cienfuegos, a little Cuban town, the naked body of a D.C.I. officer was found floating one night. And the next, Captain North of the Army Intelligence was on his way there—with orders to find the facts. The wolves of the naval powers were already gathering at Cienfuegos around a cashiered American naval officer who had developed a new and mysterious invention. And beside the agents were the great international criminals always drawn by such an affair. The first intimation of the sinister undercurrents North was facing came on the night train in Cuba—when a drab-looking German was murdered almost before his eyes, with a glass dagger thrust into the heart. At Cienfuegos the real battle began, with danger lurking in the surrounding jungle, and within the house death striking with silent arrows—so much quieter than automatics, so much easier to use from a distance than knives...

Down Shanghai's famous Bund swept the red tide of terror—until Captain North discovered the secret of the four copper coins, of the dying man who whispered, "Carol's doll," and of the murderer whose goal was an empire!

An adventure-mystery about a top-secret microfilm, a fortune in pearls—and a killer who will do anything to get both! This is #7 in the classic Colonel Hugh North series. \[Abridged edition.\]

The Washington Legation Captain North's ninth case

COPYRIGHT 1935 BY VAN WYCK MASON. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR, CHAFING, SOME CREASING AND SMALL RIPS ON COVERS. INSIDE COVERS & PAGES HEAVILY TANNED AND THERE MAY BE AN OCCASIONAL RIP OR TEAR.

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Colonel Hugh North was headed for the most perilous mission to which G-2 had ever assigned him. His job was to stop a multimillion-dollar deal that could shatter the security of the United States. But those involved in the deal, three luscious women and five unscupulous men, weren't going to let that kind of money slip through their fingers—even if it meant more than one murder.

Van Wyck Mason. The Hongkong Airbase Murders. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, \[1937\]. Madison Square edition. Octavo. 339 pages.

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

Hugh North must find stop a coup in Brazil, scheduled during Carnaval, and with no clues. Lots of intrigue, a poisoning, and plenty of excitement.

Saigon Singer by F. Van Wyck Mason in Hardcover.

He came to the high Himalayas on his most important mission, keep the communists out of India. Co;onel Hugh North on assignment from G-2.

Marya flashed him a brilliant smile, knowing he represented a nation willing to spend millions to learn her secret.

March 1961. THE REDS WOULD GIVE A SPIRE OFF THE KREMLIN to lay hands on Dr. Hans Bracht, America's foremost missile genius. And here he was on a Bangkok-bound plane with only G-2's Colonel North to guard him. The plane's passenger list made North sweat – MARY HOLLBERG, a shapely Fraulein who said she was a concert pianist but obviously wasn’t; CHU HOONG, multimillionaire manufacturer of Dragon’s Tooth Elixir; LITA NALINE, an exotic, sloe-eyed film star who developed a sudden affection for Colonel North; BORIS SALENKOV, who resembled Stalin in more ways than his mustache; LEX ROSE, a Hollywood executive and once a card-carrying Commie. Looking at them, Colonel North knew that murder would be the least of his troubles.

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Who had murdered the hotel proprietor who was North's contact in Zanzibar? Was the Rumanian con man on the plane to Nairobi involved in the C.I.A. affair? Where did the pretty and amorous English widow fit in? Had the former Mau Mau terrorist leader penetrated North's disguise as a spice buyer? Was the British engineer quite what he claimed to be? These are but a few of the many questions that were to test Colonel North's ingenuity to the fullest. And he had only three days to find all the answers!

extremely rare,very good condition

A novel of intrigue and Cold War terror to matc Fail-Safe ...