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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.

Sexton Blake, en route to a much-needed vacation with his friend Bathurst, has his plans interrupted by murder.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

By the time the doctor arrived, Lord Lingdale was beginning to show signs of returning consciousness. When he finally regained his senses and had been informed that the diamonds had been stolen, he turned to his wife. “Wire at once for Sexton Blake,” he said.

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...

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.

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!

Sexton Blake receives a mysterious letter from a woman, who claims she is being held against her will in Paris. Is it kidnapping or something more sinister? Of course, he investigates immediately.