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Title: Cleek of Scotland Yard
Detective Stories

Author: Thomas W. Hanshew

Release Date: May 1, 2010 [eBook #32198]

Language: English

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CLEEK OF SCOTLAND YARD

[Illustration: "My only kingdom is here ... in this dear woman's
arms. Walk with me, Ailsa ... as my queen _and_ my wife."]

The International Adventure Library

Three Owls Edition

CLEEK OF SCOTLAND YARD

Detective Stories

by

T. P. Hanshew

Author of "Cleek the Master Detective",
"Cleek's Government Cases" etc.

W. R. Caldwell & Co.
New York

Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian.

Cleek of Scotland Yard

_PROLOGUE_

The Affair of the Man Who Vanished

Mr. Maverick Narkom, Superintendent at Scotland Yard, flung aside
the paper he was reading and wheeled round in his revolving
desk-chair, all alert on the instant, like a terrier that scents a
rat.

He knew well what the coming of the footsteps toward his private
office portended; his messenger was returning at last.

Good! Now he would get at the facts of the matter, and be relieved
from the sneers of carping critics and the pin pricks of overzealous