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Kate plus 10 — Edgar Wallace

Kate plus 10

Edgar Wallace

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 135 pages

An adventure novel by Edgar Wallace from 1917. It follows a young woman named Kate and a band of ten associates, along with the Earl of Flanborough's pearls, through a story of schemes and shifting fortunes. Worth listening to for its brisk plotting and the easy narrative style Wallace brought to his crime fiction.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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KATE PLUS 10
BY
EDGAR WALLACE
Author of
“The Clue of the Twisted Candle,” etc.
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
CƒĵǡƯŧǪ H. TLj΅ƿŧ
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
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“Why, Kate!” he murmured. “I’m always meeting you.”
[COPYRIGHT]
Copyright, 1917
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

CONTENTS

I. EIGHTY-THREE PEARLS ON A STRING

II. MIKE SAID NOTHING-THERE WAS NOTHING TO SAY

III. OTHER EYES WATCHED MICHAEL

IV. “THE IDEAL CRIMINAL IS A STRATEGIST”

V. A CHORUS GIRL AT SEBO'S

VI. КАТЕ САМЕ ТО ТНЕ ПАТ

VII. THE PRINCESS BACHEffski-BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED

VIII. AN ARTIST MAKES AN EXHIBITION OF HIMSELF

IX. THE SHAREHOLDERS AND AN INTERRUPTION

X. SIR RALPH LOST A PRINCESS AND FOUND A POLICEMAN

XI. LADY MOYA WAS CURIOUSLY UNLIKE HERSELF

XII. A MOTOR CAR WAS MET BY A SPECIAL TRAIN

XIII. THE CHRONOLOGY OF A GREAT THEFT

XIV. THE REMARKABLE TRAIN THAT DID STRANGE TRICKS

XV. AS SIR RALPH SAID, “BUSINESS IS BUSINESS”

XVI. On The UNMORALITY OF PROFESSIONAL THIEVES

XVII. THE INDEPENDENT STRATEGY OF SENOR GREGORI

XVIII. THE COLONEL WAS A GENTLEMEN AT THE LAST

XIX. MICHAEL DEVELOPED A FONDNESS FOR THE CRIMINAL CLASSES

KATE PLUS 10

CHAPTER I.

EIGHTY-THREE PEARLS ON A STRING

THE Earl of Flanborough pressed a bell push by the side of his study table and, after an interval of exactly three seconds, pressed it again,

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Contents

  1. KATE PLUS 10
  2. [COPYRIGHT]
  3. CONTENTS
  4. KATE PLUS 10
  5. ENDNOTES
  6. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  7. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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