Stanley Walpole

Moonlight

Paul La Blanc graduates from the seminary with high honors with plans to enter the priesthood, a much-desired o...

The Alibi

To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book,...

A Woman's Business

The Spirit of Evil

Nick Carter investigates the mysterious death of a man attending a Spiritualistic seance held in the home of a...

The Devil's Partner

An adventure tale set in the North Woods. The villain, smuggler Jules Payette, would give anything if Jeanne wo...

The Offenders

Girl is held at mercy of gang of crooks, her only friend being a half-wit. A murder is committed and blame shif...

In Walked Mary

Dick Allison comes to the aid of Mary Ann Hubbard, a young, dispossessed woman in the South, and the two become...

Wife

Financial ruin stares Price and Holliday in the face. Holliday discovers that his beautiful daughter, Leonora,...

The Drug Traffic

Johnson, a pharmacist, makes an illicit traffic in cocaine and morphine, which he cleverly sells through his dr...

A Game with Fate

After Henry Dawson and Robert Harwell quarrel at Elaine Huntington's garden party, Henry disappears and Robert...

Dan Morgan

From the life and criminal career of bushranger Dan Morgan, leading up to his violent death at the hands of pol...

Finger Prints

A string of valuable pearls provides the motivation for the murder of Wareing, a widowed banker, who intended t...

It Didn't Work Out Right

Billy Hopkins, due to the fickleness of Blanche, his fiancée, develops a jealous rage when the fat Harry openly...

Moora Neya, or The Message of the Spear

Harry Earl is in love with the station owner's daughter. The manager makes advances on her, but Earl beats him...

Fortune's Child

The Sport of the Gods

The story deals with a man whose fidelity and loyalty are rewarded by his being thrown into prison for the crim...

The Greatest of These

Old shoemaker Peter is beloved by the children in his neighborhood. His daughter, Rose, elopes with an artist n...

The Trail of the Cigarette

When Jessica Dale, a companion to wealthy Hortense Bates, is found dead and her valuable earrings missing at a...