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The Third Round

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A lakeside holiday offers Edward Blackton a chance to imagine what wealth could buy him: influence, protection and the freedom to pursue excitement. Looking across the water towards the mountains of Savoy, he talks with his companion about exchanging their precarious profession for a more respectable use of their talents. Two important figures from the diamond trade arrive with urgent business, and Blackton turns to his private collection of information about wealthy people.

The novel moves from hotel luxury to the wreckage of Professor Goodman's laboratory. An explosion tears through the house, while Blackton continues arranging his scheme through coded messages, paid agents and a planned impersonation. Dry remarks from the household staff interrupt the danger with comedy. Readers interested in crime fiction can follow the contrast between Blackton's polished manners and the calculating work that goes on behind them.

About the author

H. C. McNeile

Herbert Cyril McNeile (1888 to 1937) was a British army officer and author who wrote under the pen name 'Sapper.' Drawing on his First World War service, he created Bulldog Drummond, whose action-packed adventures became bestsellers and were adapted for the stage and screen.