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A STRANGE message came to Capt. Okewood—an almost meaningless scrap of paper that nevertheless meant to him conclusive proof that his brother whom he had thought dead was alive and in Germany. How that slip of paper caused him to take a perilous trip—alone and without official sanction—into the very heart of the enemy's country, his thrilling adventures on the way, and his conflict with the malignant genius of German spies—Der Stelze—the Man with the Club Foot—make one of the most enthralling adventure romances that has been written in years. "The Man with the Club Foot" is a war mystery story that is sure to capture your enthusiasm from the first page to the last.
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THE HAND OF FU-MANCHU
THE latest mystery story by the author of "The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu," and "The Return of Fu-Manchu," in which the infamous arch-criminal again comes to renew his attack against the White race. Cunning and merciless as ever, Fu-Manchu brings to the aid of his old forces a new and bitter determination to conquer his enemies, Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie; and he is assisted by a mysterious organization—The Si-Fan—whose members are found in all parts of the earth, but behind whose every act can be dimly perceived the hands of Fu-Manchu.
The Insidious Dr. Fa-Manchu
The first of the Fu-Manchu series, introducing the most famous criminal of modern fiction, the yellow doctor. Imagine a man more daring than Raffles, more adroit than Arsene Lupin, more powerful than any other criminal of history or romance—and you do not fully picture the diabolical genius of Fu-Manchu. Against this man almost invincible in his hatred of civilization, Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie pit all the courage and resourcefulness they own.
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
Another adventure of Fu-Manchu, as exciting and mysterious as the other novels in this series.
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A NEW HUMORIST ARRIVES. HIS NAME IS
H. B. CRESWELL AND HE HAS WRITTEN
THOMAS
A NOVEL OF IRRESISTIBLE FUN
228 pages, $I.40 net. Postage extra.
WHEN that irrepressible young man, Thomas, undertook to do anything he insisted on doing it in his own way—and Thomas's way was more than strange. So, of course, when he took a vacation it was unlike any vacation that had ever been heard of before. That vacation is really the story—and from the moment Thomas packs his bags and starts Susan (who is a host in herself) on her way, until his return to Sanity and Nita, you are carried off on the merriest, maddest and most enjoyable of journeys that you ever took, either in a book or out of it. Just take a trip with Thomas—it's as goods as a vacation any day.
Punch says: "So cheery a guest deserves an immediate place on your own list of week-enders.
Clement K. Shorter says: "Great fun … it is the best 'first book' that has appeared this year."
ALL THAT ITS TITLE IMPLIES
WHO was she? this mysterious girl with the scar, who crept silent and alone through the great house on the North Drive? And why did she act as secretary for that grim woman, Mrs. Atterbury, paying mysterious visits to people she did not know, hating and distrusting her associates, but never giving up her brave, lone fight—for what?
Those are just a few of the questions you will ask yourself, as you rush through this baffling tale of mystery piled upon mystery. It's a breathless book—a story in which action never ceases for a moment, and whose outcome you never suspect until the last big moment of struggle when mystery ceases to be mystery, and you breathe the contented sigh that comes at the end of a good story well told—and thoroughly enjoyed.
"A good old-fashioned mystery story, full of plots and counterplots, palpitating with suspense, throbbing with action, dark with utter secrecy from end to end."—New York Tribune.
"Enough mystery for two novels in one."—Chicago Examiner.
The Red Battle Flyer
By
CAPTAIN MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN
12 mo. Illustrated, $1.25 net. Postage extra.
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THE most famous of German aviators was Freiherr von Richthofen who was killed in action in April of this year, after being credited with eighty aerial victories.
This book is the story of this German's exploits and adventures told in his own words. It is the story of countless thrilling battles in the air, of raids, and of acts of daring by the flying men of both sides.
"Richthofen's Flying Circus" has become famous in the annals of aerial warfare. This book tells how the "Circus" was formed and of the adventures in which its members participated.
"The Red Battle Flyer" is offered to the American public, not as a glorification of German achievements in the war, but as a record of air fighting which, because of its authorship and of the insight it gives into the enemy airman's mind, will prove of interest and value to our own flyers as well as to readers generally.
"NOTHING of Importance" say the communiqués when there is no big action to report. Lieut. Adams has taken this phrase as a title for the series of swift, vivid impressions which compose his book; his chapters, with their glimpses of scenes in billets, in the trenches, of snipers, working parties and patrols, bring the reader more clearly in touch with the reality of warfare than do many more spectacular books.
"Few, very few books have come out of the war more real in their message or more poignant in their appeal."—The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Of the scores of books which are pushing their way into print nowadays as part of the war propaganda, none more truthfully and satisfactorily fulfills its mission than 'Nothing of Importance'."—The Springfield Union.
Publishers, Robert M. McBride & Co., New York