After Miss Ella Creed was knocked out by thieves outside her home, she was terrified. She seemed to care little for her lost jewels - they were just imitation after all - but when she was unconscious a card had been toed around her neck. On it was a crude drawing of a feathered serpent.
Reporter Peter Derwin soon discovers that a wealthy artist, a boxing promoter and a nouveau riche stockbroker share her fear. But why? And who is behind the crimes of the Feathered Serpent?
Published in 1932 this is a fun little adventure and reasonably complex for Wallace who churned the books out, 173 novels it is believed. He liked a punt and was forever writing to pay the bills.
With these stories you suspend belief and enjoy some crime from simpler times when burglars actually said "fair cop, guv" and love was chaste.
This is a nifty little edition published in 2007 by Hodder. Its a facsimile of the original and they have even gone to the trouble of adding rubbing discolouration and staining.
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