To Colin Hewitt, criminologist, great writer of detective stories, his old friend brought a strange tale and a stranger request--a request with the sinister shadow of death behind it. It was that tale which led Colin into more sinister waters than he had ever known before, into a world where treachery and sudden death were commonplaces, to a climax that all but cost him his life.
50 Essential Classic Adventure Short Stories You Have To Read Before You Die, Vol.1: Jack London, Robert Ervin Howard, E.Nesbit, Max Brand... (Golden Deer Classics)
