The Just Men of Cordova

Manfred, Gonsalez, and Poiccart are back, still handing out the rough justice that courts cannot deliver. This time their attention falls on Colonel Black, a smooth City financier whose fortune is built on ruin and whose enemies have a habit of dying conveniently. Leon Gonsalez, the trio’s patient student of faces and human nature, does much of the watchful work as the net draws tight. Around the central hunt Wallace weaves blackmail, a threatened young woman, and a Scotland Yard man who is never quite sure whether the Just Men are criminals or allies. It is a tight, satisfying entry in the series that made his name. Free to download here as a PDF and EPUB edition.