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Strangway, from Scotland Yard, London, is forced to take leave as his superior suspects that a broken love affair is disturbing his work. The detective happens upon a mysterious beautiful stranger, and follows her only to find even more beautiful mystery in America. The story takes place in 1930s, a romantic thriller.

This story opens in California from whence the scene is transferred to the picturesque Balearic Islands where the main drama takes place. It reveals the reactions of two young people-wage slaves-who are suddenly released from bondage by a substantial legacy, and shows how the even tenor of their lives was abruptly ended in the most romantic of surroundings. Although they were not married, Milly and Hall lived together, both happy in the knowle...

BLUE PETE WAS one of the smartest detective "guys" you could come across. He was the terror of all wrong¬doers, and there wasn't much that he would miss with a revolver. At the same time, he was human enough to love desperately. Blue Pete it a most fascinating character, you never know what he it going to do next. Luke Allan has written a book of breathless excitement and adventure.

The story: When two hard-case characters rode in from the Badlands, Blue Pete smelt trouble a mile off. Nor was his instinct at fault. Outbreaks of rustling quickly followed the arrival of these men and suspicion turned to certainty when they made for the hills driving Blue Pete's own steers before them. Although a man of peaceful pursuits, Pete reckoned there were some things no man could do to him and get away with, and stealing his cattle w...

The Story: In this exhilarating, fast-moving yarn, Blue Pete, against the express wish of Inspector Barker of the Royal Mounted Police, sets out to avenge the brutal murder of a rancher and his wife. Once again, relying on his ready wit and the lightning draw of his heavy six-shooter, he justifies his action and beats the murderers-but only after he has found himself in the most desperate situation of his chequered career. "Blue Pete, " the cr...

Few men reckoned on staying up in the Cypress Hills unless they needed a hide-out real bad. So when Blue Pete heard one night a wolf's cry from the hills that no wolf had throated, he figured he'd go on up and see who was hollering and why. And that started Pete on the trigger-taut tracking of the toughest and strangest bunch of bank-busters that had menaced Medicine Hat for quite a while. But Pete discovered too much, and the man who did that...

In this new Luke Allan story Blue Pete, that indomitable half-breed who works in his own fashion to uphold the law guarded by the red-coated Mounties, returns back over the Canadian border to the vast wilderness of canyon and gulch that is the Badlands of Montana. He is trailing a bunch of horse-thieves who have cut into the herds of the Lazy M and on their furtive way back to the border have stolen Whiskers, Blue Pete's celebrated pinto pony....

The half-breed Blue Pete and Rance Hewitt were old enemies and Rance was not the man to allow a debt of vengeance to go unpaid. Determined to get even with Pete, he laid a trap to take the half-breed across the border into RanceÕs own territory. The trick succeeded, and the two men came face to face in the way Rance liked to meet his enemiesÑhe armed with a quirt, and his adversary securely trussed up against any possible reprisal. Pete took h...

Blue Pete was not a rancher-with that Indian blood he had to have some excitement in his life. Inspector Barker makes Blue Pete and unofficial detective to do a task that the North-west Mounted Police cannot officially, lawfully, fulfill. This job takes Blue Pete west past Fitzhugh (Jasper, today), past the British Columbia border wherein the Mounties have no authority to work. Here Pete makes too many new 'friends', each of which may be a dea...

Blue Pete, that most famous cowboy whose adventures have been recorded in a long line of thrilling novels, is here involved in a strange and dangerous mission on behalf of the Mounted Police. Alone he has to discover the secret of the insurrection which the mysterious ÔGreat ChiefÕ of the Indians is planning: alone he penetrates to the mountain stronghold of the rebellious Indians where capture would mean a slow and agonizing death. ÒLuke Alla...

Guns Roar Bank robberies follow each other in a noisy procession, through Luke Allan's pages. The waste of bank-clerk life is tragic, but a mysterious masked stranger does his best to balance the ledger by killing off the bandits and returning their loot "less a percentage for expenses." Who is the masked stranger? And who is the bold bandit. "Dolly" Morgan? The book will keep the reader guessing-and amused.

When Blue Pete intervened with the enraged ranchers to save Butch Dorman from the revenge he so richly deserved, Pete immediately became an object of suspicion himself. That suited Pete, because, although it meant hitting the lone trail in a hail of bullets, he saw a chance of the big reward offered for the capture of the rustlers whose depredations were making the ranchers desperate. But neither he, the ranchers, the rustlers nor the Mounties...

What this book is about: Luke Allan is a born story-teller, and in this novel he describes a locked room, of which the window considered as a means of escape offered little chance to a fugitive. Yet in this room murder was committed and in some manner the murderer contrived to escape. The occupants of the house were a curious collection of people. The ownerÑa rich man who ran a club for ex-criminals, his beautiful but mysterious sister, a big ...

Excerpt from Blue Pete Half BreedConstable Mahon sat loosely in the saddle, star ing vacantly before him, but now and then his head raised, with the untiring instinct of the Force.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from The Return of Blue PeteInstead, he picked up the envelope and examined it on all sides. Mahon began to grow impatient.Twice the Inspector turned the letter over. Mahon fretted. He could see on its face the Division headquarters stamp Lethbridge but why all this ceremony and pother about an official note that came almost every day? He recalled suddenly that his wife would be holding lunch for him with fresh fish he had seen unloade...

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