When the heir to a small fortune suddenly vanishes, Sexton Blake investigates.

Barton Tunnel is some six miles from Merriton on a small single-line railway linking up Merriton with the main system, which it joins at Fulchurch Junction. There is a train which leaves Merriton at 4.20 p.m. and arrives at Fulchurch at 4.40. When it drew into that station yesterday afternoon, a guard, on opening the door of a first-class smoker, was horrified to discover the body of a well-dressed, middle-aged man lying in a huddled heap on the floor near the farther door, the window of w...

Young Hector MacLeod is down on his luck in London, when he comes to the rescue of a woman and saves her from drowning. This act of heroism is witnessed by Sexton Blake's assistant, who brings Hector back home with him to dry off. Hector MacLeod's story will launch Sexton Blake into one of his widest-ranging cases, involving international trade, theft, and a missing inheritance!

In a great many respects, the case resembled that of Mr. Dyson, of Maida Vale, who, it may be remembered, was lured away from home by a bogus message, and compelled to perform an operation on a man who had nothing wrong with him. And it was, no doubt, the recollection of the brilliant triumph which Sexton Blake had achieved in Dr. Dyson’s case which led Mrs. Banham, when all the efforts of the local police had failed to solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearance, to wire for Sexton B...

A dead man. A missing coffee-pot. Escaped snakes. Only Sexton Blake could solve this most puzzling case!

When Lord Arlington arrives to pick up his priceless collection of rubies from safe deposit, he discovers they have disappeared. But how could it have happened from behind locked doors in one of the safest places in England? Sexton Blake investigates!

Elderly John Parker planned to marry his young and beautiful housekeeper, but he daughter vowed she would rather see him in his grave than have the wedding take place...and lose her inheritance. When Parker is apparently poisoned, but the daughter seems improbably innocent despite her murderous declaration the day before, Sexton Blake is called in.

URGENT. COME AT ONCE.—TREVELYAN, MOSTYN MANOR.That was all the telegram said; and, apart from the fact that Sir Otto Trevelyan, of Mostyn Manor, in Surrey, was one of the best-known financial magnates in the City of London, that was all that Sexton Blake knew of the case when he left his rooms in Baker Street and drove to Waterloo.

With war looming, Sir John, Chief of the British Secret Service, calls on Sexton Blake with a most delicate problem: the Minister of Munitions has gone missing. He must be located, and quickly, with no word of the matter reaching the public.

When Dick Arblater breaks into Sexton Blake's Baker Street home, he finds the great detective ready for him. But Blake isn't ready for Arblater's accusations of blackmail!x

Sexton Blake had been at Hastings when the telegram summoned him to Professor Harkoff’s house, half-way between Battle and the old fishing town. The Rookery, as the professor’s house was called, was in the Hastings district, and Inspector Jarkins, of that, force, found, on his arrival on the scene, that Blake had already been there half an hour, had heard the story Miss Harkoff repeated to himself, and had gone, not ten minutes ago, to make his investigations in the fatal room.

Sexton Blake is summoned to the Drury house, where was burgled the previous night. A cash-box containing over eight hundred pound in gold and notes is now missing.