In a famous New York roof-garden restaurant, a visitor from the west has the celebrated criminologist Sanford Quest pointed out to him. Soon Quest is caught up in an apartment-house murder, hidden hands, a pocket wireless and an unseen terror, in a chase that leads through baying bloodhounds and reed-choked marshes to a house of mystery.
A fast, gadget-filled thriller from 1915, written alongside the film serial of the same name. Download the free EPUB.