Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2025-03-24 Public domain in the USA. 260 Wallace, Edgar 1875 1932 Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar 27024195 The melody of death $aNew York :$bLincoln Mac Veagh, $c1927. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melody_of_Death an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "The Melody of Death" by Edgar Wallace is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book appears to weave together elements of crime, mystery, and romance, centering on incidents of professional safe-cracking and their impact on a circle of Londoners. Key characters include the introspective Gilbert Standerton, his conflicted fiancée Edith Cathcart, the ambitious Leslie Frankfort, and a group of skilled jewel thieves led by George Wallis. The primary themes involve love, wealth, familial pressure, and the shadowy allure of crime in society. The opening of "The Melody of Death" introduces readers first to a meticulously executed jewel heist at a London diamond merchant's office, carried out by professional burglars and interrupted by a mysterious masked man. The narrative then shifts to Gilbert Standerton, an emotionally strained young man attending the Derby with his friend Leslie, where underlying anxieties about wealth, inheritance, and impending marriage surface. A sudden storm brings Gilbert, Leslie, and a pair of storm-blown street musicians—including a young girl—together, hinting at deeper connections. As the story unfolds through subsequent chapters, the emotional tension between Gilbert and Edith is drawn out, revealing her lack of affection for him and the manipulative ambitions of her mother. Meanwhile, a series of high-profile burglaries unsettle London, while Gilbert's struggles with financial security and personal identity intensify, setting up intersecting plotlines between domestic intrigue and criminal enterprise. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bwb_P9-CSS-132/ 20250317072945wallace 1927 US Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Thieves -- Fiction Spouses -- Fiction PR Text Category: Romance Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 323057 2025-07-30T04:48:58.477307 text/html 299396 2025-03-24T10:53:10 text/html 352583 2025-07-30T04:49:02.957273 application/epub+zip 356814 2025-07-30T04:48:59.148295 application/epub+zip 184526 2025-07-30T04:48:58.776299 application/epub+zip 460422 2025-07-30T04:49:06.094233 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 443344 2025-07-30T04:49:02.652268 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 293046 2025-07-30T04:48:57.415300 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 273312 2025-03-24T10:53:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17115 2025-07-30T04:49:06.247240 application/rdf+xml 9620 2025-07-30T04:48:58.896274 image/jpeg 1555 2025-07-30T04:48:58.834281 image/jpeg 362383 2025-07-30T04:48:58.508284 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia