The Three Just Men

By this point in Edgar Wallace’s long-running series, the self-appointed vigilantes who once numbered four have settled into three: George Manfred, Leon Gonsalez, and Raymond Poiccart, men who mete out justice the law cannot reach. Here they face Dr. Oberzohn, a coldly methodical schemer whose plans threaten a young woman named Mirabelle Leicester and whose weapons run to poison and worse. Wallace builds the book on chases, coded messages, and the quiet brilliance of Gonsalez, who reads a criminal’s face the way others read a page. First published in 1925, it works both as a chapter in the saga and as a standalone thriller. This free PDF and EPUB edition makes the complete novel available again.