The Master Criminal (Golden Deer Classics)

A collection of 12 stories published serially in The Ludgate, London, Jun 1897 to May 1898, in which the criminal mastermind, Felix Gryde, conducts his nefarious criminal work -- theft, kidnapping, ransom, assassination, fraud -- and he never gets caught. The author''s introduction:"The history of famous detectives, imaginary and otherwise, has frequently been written, but the history of a famous ...