Project Gutenberg 2025-08-12 Public domain in the USA. 613 Wallace, Edgar 1875 1932 Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar The girl from Scotland Yard $aGarden City :$bDoubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., $c1926, copyright 1927. an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "The Girl from Scotland Yard" by Edgar Wallace is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on a poised young investigator, Leslie Maughan, who probes a tangle of high-society secrets involving Lady Raytham, her bullying confidante Princess Anita Bellini, and a newly freed ex-convict, Peter Dawlish. A menacing butler, a suspicious cash withdrawal, and a murder tied to an emerald necklace pull police and aristocrats into the same web. The opening of the novel shows Lady Raytham on edge as friends visit and talk turns to Peter Dawlish, recently released after a notorious forgery case. Leslie Maughan arrives from Scotland Yard to question Lady Raytham about a large, sudden withdrawal, rattling her further. That night Leslie encounters Peter on the Embankment, challenges his self-pity, and helps him toward a fresh start; he is soon assaulted by three small, silent attackers but survives and finds shabby lodgings. Meanwhile Druze, the butler, behaves erratically; later, Leslie and Chief Inspector Coldwell come upon Druze’s corpse on Barnes Common, shot and clutching a square emerald. Leslie follows a trail of searched belongings (passport, New York ticket, a stuffed wallet) and bare footprints, then confronts Lady Raytham, whose emerald chain is somehow intact despite a matching pendant found in the dead man’s hand. Pressed about her movements, Lady Raytham admits she discovered the body and collapses when Peter’s name is mentioned, setting the core mystery and suspects in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://books.google.com/books?id=6voTAAAAQAAJ 20250805130402wallace 1926 US Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Police -- Great Britain -- Fiction Women detectives -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 421171 2025-09-30T08:43:39.525272 text/html 398193 2025-08-12T12:12:10 text/html 379763 2025-09-30T08:43:44.737154 application/epub+zip 385546 2025-09-30T08:43:40.484170 application/epub+zip 252226 2025-09-30T08:43:39.986237 application/epub+zip 584900 2025-09-30T08:43:48.149113 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 562000 2025-09-30T08:43:44.388164 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 385524 2025-09-30T08:43:38.232148 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 365740 2025-08-12T12:12:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16751 2025-09-30T08:43:48.282152 application/rdf+xml 18928 2025-09-30T08:43:40.200269 image/jpeg 3945 2025-09-30T08:43:40.093195 image/jpeg 403531 2025-09-30T08:43:39.564153 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