Project Gutenberg 2025-06-30 Public domain in the USA. 344 Wallace, Edgar 1875 1932 Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar The tomb of Ts'in $aLondon :$bWard, Lock & Co., Limited, $c1918. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tomb_of_Ts%27in an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "The tomb of Ts'in" by Edgar Wallace is an adventure-thriller novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on a dangerous hunt for the legendary tomb of China’s First Emperor, mixing crime, espionage, and archaeology. The key players include the flamboyant adventurer Captain Ted Talham, the brilliant Italian sleuth Signor Tillizinni, the poised Yvonne Yale, and the ruthless Mr. Soo, all entangled with a murderous secret society and a priceless jade clue. The opening of the story introduces the stakes through repeated attempts to rob a ship’s safe carrying a Chinese Embassy mailbag, leading Tillizinni to the Ambassador, whose historical article about the First Emperor’s burial becomes the catalyst for intrigue. Talham rescues Yvonne from Chinese pursuers in Hyde Park and deciphers the inscription on her ancient jade bracelet—directions that seem to point toward the tomb—before persuading her to let him hold it for safety. Soon after, the Ambassador is found strangled and a Chinese assailant shot dead in a bureau drawer; a vital envelope is empty, and the suave Mr. Soo emerges as a formidable rival, mobilizing his secret-society network. As deceptions multiply—a fake bracelet is swapped, two burglars (Talham and Tillizinni) collide in de Costa’s house, and a bomb nearly kills the detective—the strands tighten around the tomb’s secret, with social niceties masking a deadly contest for the true jade clue. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bwb_KS-407-694/ 20250627095216wallace 1918 GB Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Adventure stories Police -- Fiction China -- Fiction Tombs -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 363949 2025-07-30T08:05:53.498421 text/html 340657 2025-06-30T12:17:41 text/html 619901 2025-07-30T08:05:59.356353 application/epub+zip 624399 2025-07-30T08:05:54.736406 application/epub+zip 249812 2025-07-30T08:05:54.070363 application/epub+zip 1041192 2025-07-30T08:06:02.896324 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1020800 2025-07-30T08:05:58.864400 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 331672 2025-07-30T08:05:52.521382 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 311941 2025-06-30T12:17:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14823 2025-07-30T08:06:03.047312 application/rdf+xml 21937 2025-07-30T08:05:54.298391 image/jpeg 3834 2025-07-30T08:05:54.184365 image/jpeg 864707 2025-07-30T08:05:53.541437 application/octet-stream application/zip 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 en.wikipedia