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_Title:_ The Avenger
_Date of first publication:_ 1926
_Author:_ Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
_Date first posted:_ Mar. 7, 2016
_Date last updated:_ Mar. 7, 2016
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THE NOVELS OF
EDGAR WALLACE

The _Daily Mail_ says: “It is impossible not to be
thrilled by Edgar Wallace. Mr. Wallace has, in an
exceptional degree, the capacity to keep his readers on
tenter-hooks. His plots are always clever; his resources
of imagination unrivalled.”

CAPTAINS OF SOULS
THE MISSING MILLION
ROOM 13
THE FACE IN THE NIGHT
A KING BY NIGHT
THE MAN FROM MOROCCO
THE AVENGER

_Other new long representative novels by_
_Edgar Wallace will appear through the House_
_of_ JOHN LONG, LTD. LONDON

THE AVENGER

By
EDGAR WALLACE

[Illustration]

TENTH EDITION

London
John Long, Limited
12, 13 & 14 Norris Street, Haymarket
[_All Rights Reserved_]

Made and Printed
in Great Britain
Copyright, 1926, by
John Long, Limited
All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS

I. THE HEAD-HUNTER
II. MR. SAMPSON LONGVALE CALLS
III. THE NIECE
IV. THE LEADING LADY
V. MR. LAWLEY FOSS
VI. THE MASTER OF GRIFF
VII. THE SWORDS AND BHAG
VIII. BHAG
IX. THE ANCESTOR
X. THE OPEN WINDOW
XI. THE MARK ON THE WINDOW
XII. A CRY FROM A TOWER
XIII. THE TRAP THAT FAILED
XIV. MENDOZA MAKES A FIGHT
XV. TWO FROM THE YARD
XVI. THE BROWN MAN FROM NOWHERE
XVII. MR. FOSS MAKES A SUGGESTION
XVIII. THE FACE IN THE PICTURE
XIX. THE MIDNIGHT VISIT
XX. A NARROW ESCAPE
XXI. THE ERASURE
XXII. THE HEAD
XXIII. CLUES AT THE TOWER
XXIV. THE MARKS OF THE BEAST
XXV. THE MAN IN THE CAR
XXVI. THE HAND
XXVII. THE CAVES
XXVIII. THE TOWER
XXIX. BHAG’S RETURN
XXX. THE ADVERTISEMENT
XXXI. JOHN PERCIVAL LIGGITT
XXXII. GREGORY’S WAY
XXXIII. THE TRAP THAT FAILED
XXXIV. THE SEARCH
XXXV. WHAT HAPPENED TO ADELE
XXXVI. THE ESCAPE
XXXVII. AT THE TOWER AGAIN
XXXVIII. THE CAVERN OF BONES
XXXIX. MICHAEL KNOWS FOR SURE
XL. “THE WIDOW”
XLI. THE DEATH
XLII. CAMERA!

The Avenger