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WHAT would happen if the Suez Canal were suddenly destroyed? What would that mean to Britain, to Mussolini-to civilisation? This is one of the problems which Hamilton Teed sets himself to solve in his amazing mystery story BOTTOM OF SUEZ. The way in which Grant Rushton, prince of sleuths, deals with the problems and the adventures which face him in these extraordinary pages will prove once again that even as Rushton is the prince of detectives, so is Teed the prince of storytellers. Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca

The Grey Ghost, an alias of Craig Knight, an American, has travelled to London to avenge the 'Weaver', for the loss of his wife, three years ago. The Weaver has been chased from various American cities, pursued by the Grey Ghost and is running scared but determined to get the Grey Ghost as well. In London, The Grey Ghost meets Red Marion, who is also seeking to foil the Weaver but the Grey Ghost will not partner up. From The Thriller magazine, dated 1930; "The paper with a thousand thrills.". This story is illustrated. This story is written by George Heber Hamilton Teed, a Canadian, 1886-1938.

Bob Leigh needed a job, and his uncle said that the Royal North-West Mounted needed good men. When Corporal Leigh stumbles across the largest railway robbery he is attacked and injured. He desperately wants to capture the thieves but will he lose some friends along the way? A western Alberta thriller, from about 1913, from the archives of a master story teller.

VOODOO ISLAND The greatest Grant Rushton mystery thriller ever written is "VOODOO ISLAND." In this graphic book Hamilton Teed takes his great detective Grant Rushton to the black island republic of Hayti, where he crosses swords and matches wits with one of the most remarkable characters in fiction-Marie Galante, the notorious octoroon, as beautiful as she is evil, a woman who sways the destinies of nations throughout the West Indies and in Central and South America. High Priestess of the horrible cult of the Voodoo, Marie Galante, beautiful, sinuous, ruthless, sets out to destroy Grant Rushton, when he starts across the world himself to track down and destroy a notorious international crook,- Kreezer. Never for a moment does the excitement in this vivid story slacken. At times it may not be very nice, it is gruesome, but it is real. It's the stuff of which great books are made. Marie Galante may sin, but she is a woman.

What this book is about: Luke Allan is a born story-teller, and in this novel he describes a locked room, of which the window considered as a means of escape offered little chance to a fugitive. Yet in this room murder was committed and in some manner the murderer contrived to escape. The occupants of the house were a curious collection of people. The owner-a rich man who ran a club for ex-criminals; his beautiful but mysterious sister, a big bruiser named Storey and a cook who obviously knew more than she was willing to tell, are among the chief characters. The unravelling of the threads leading to the murder is cleverly and neatly carried out, and the surprise ending makes a fitting conclusion to a most readable and exciting novel.

The half-breed Blue Pete and Rance Hewitt were old enemies and Rance was not the man to allow a debt of vengeance to go unpaid. Determined to get even with Pete, he laid a trap to take the half-breed across the border into RanceÕs own territory.The trick succeeded, and the two men came face to face in the way Rance liked to meet his enemiesÑhe armed with a quirt, and his adversary securely trussed up against any possible reprisal.Pete took his beating with sullen hatred; silently swearing to return blow for blow until Rance cringed for mercy. The unofficial arrival of Mahon of the Mounties speeded the moment of retribution as he and Pete fought their way to freedom.But before they left, Pete levelled the score in a quick and ruthless reckoning.

What this story is about The stranger in town would have been in a bad way had not Blue Pete intervened. Bruiser Salmon, who was dealing out the punishment, didn't take kindly to Pete's action but the 'forty-five' the half-breed nonchalantly fingered commanded obedience. Salmon swore to get even with Blue Pete. But Pete, scarred from a hundred fights, was not the man to be cowed by threats, especially when he heard the stranger's tale of a missing heir and of Salmon's part in a stick-at-nothing plot to gain a fortune. How Blue Pete settled the score and meted out his own kind of justice, is told in this action-paced story of flaying fists and burning bullets.

Blue Pete, in his role of undercover helper of the RCMP, once more sets out to bring justice and retribution to a group of bank-robbers who had held up a bank in Red Deer. Ring-leader of the bandits is Flying Cloud, an Indian with a forked tongue, who tries to outwit the half-breed on his trail and in doing so start a feud between two neighbouring camps. Mountain Stream, a wise chief, sees through Flying Cloud's game, and his friendship for Blue Pete remains unshaken. But Brown Tepee is won over by Flying Cloud's easy promises. He overcomes his fear of the long arm of the Mounties, and joins forces with Flying Cloud. But Blue Pete is more than a match for both of them. Time and again he foils their cunning moves to destroy him and his friends, and finally he is able to defeat them in the very moment of their triumph. Yet even Blue Pete has to learn afresh that he cannot accomplish all he sets out to do without help from Mira, the amazing white woman who married him and shares his wild, untamed life.

This is a collection of stories or reports on the Great War by Lacey Amy, a Canadian. He was stationed in London for most of the war and his reportage went to newspapers and periodicals in the Empire.

When Blue Pete intervened with the enraged ranchers to save Butch Dorman from the revenge he so richly deserved, Pete immediately became an object of suspicion himself. That suited Pete, because, although it meant hitting the lone trail in a hail of bullets, he saw a chance of the big reward offered for the capture of the rustlers whose depredations were making the ranchers desperate. But neither he, the ranchers, the rustlers nor the Mounties quite anticipated the climax of his daring escapade. This new Western yarn, in which Blue Pete, the most popular of all cowboy characters, scores all along the line, is the most thrilling of any that the author has yet written.

This story forms the psychological study of a young man who is both spiritually and morally down and out. He is sick of modern frivolities and seeks refuge in the Canadian Rockies. Here he meets the girl of his heart, who infuses new hope and life into his erstwhile jaded existence.

Guns RoarBank robberies follow each other in a noisy procession, through Luke Allan's pages. The waste of bank-clerk life is tragic, but a mysterious masked stranger does his best to balance the ledger by killing off the bandits and returning their loot "less a percentage for expenses." Who is the masked stranger? And who is the bold bandit. "Dolly" Morgan? The book will keep the reader guessing-and amused.

Into Medicine Hat, just before the year's big beef roundup, drift four cow-punchers from across the Border. Everything about Slick Jordan, their leader, stamps him as a dude, except the way he whirls a rope and handles his steel-dust broncho. When Jordan singles out Blue Pete for his attention, Inspector Barker, of the Mounted Police, has a hunch that trouble is about to follow in the wake of the newcomers. He learns how right his hunch was when Sergeant Mahon, Blue Pete's friend, reports on the strange happenings that delay the roundup. Blue Pete finds his time fully occupied keeping check on Jordan and his companions, who have hired out to the T-Inverted R and promptly ran foul of its foreman, Tully Mason. Secret attempts at murder and covert rustling across the Border step up the tempo of this new story in which the popular Blue Pete again proves that he can think faster than the next man, and that for him, at least, the dark expanse of the Cypress Hills holds no secrets.

THE JUNGLE CRIME The Jungle Restaurant, catering with its realistic atmosphere and subdued lights for the sensation-loving city night-life, is the scene of a brutal murder. Detective Muldrew, whom readers of Murder at Midnight will remember, is put in charge of the case, and succeeds in following a baffling trail through a series of thrilling episodes to a dramatic conclusion. Tiger Lillie, star reporter and leader of "the Gang" is involved, and he and his friends meet with many exciting adventures in their endeavours to clear up the mystery of the unknown murderer. A skilful, swiftly-moving "thriller" by a master of mysteries.

Few men reckoned on staying up in the Cypress Hills unless they needed a hide-out real bad. So when Blue Pete heard one night a wolf's cry from the hills that no wolf had throated, he figured he'd go on up and see who was hollering and why. And that started Pete on the trigger-taut tracking of the toughest and strangest bunch of bank-busters that had menaced Medicine Hat for quite a while. But Pete discovered too much, and the man who did that in the Cypress Hills usually lasted about as long as a stockyard steer. Another grand, action-paced yarn of the ever popular Blue Pete.

In this new Luke Allan story Blue Pete, that indomitable half-breed who works in his own fashion to uphold the law guarded by the red-coated Mounties, returns back over the Canadian border to the vast wilderness of canyon and gulch that is the Badlands of Montana. He is trailing a bunch of horse-thieves who have cut into the herds of the Lazy M and on their furtive way back to the border have stolen Whiskers, Blue Pete's celebrated pinto pony. It is war to the death, with Blue Pete's old friend Sergeant Mahon of the Mounties doffing his red coat and following a trail that is blazed by the fury of the half-breed's vengeance.

Blue Pete, secretly chosen by the Mounted Police to capture an Indian murderer, in his characteristic way picks up the trail and follows it into the mountains. He becomes involved in a bank-robbery that earns him a new and implacable enemy who dogs his path throughout the chase of the murderer-a perilous, unrelenting chase in the depth of winter. Disguised as an Indian, Blue Pete moves from tribe to tribe, helped and hindered by the red men. He faces zero cold, wild animals, and flying bullets, and all the time he must keep secret the task he works at. Finally, he faces a dilemma where duty and instinct struggle for mastery.

This exhilarating Western story describes how Blue Pete-"the most popular cowboy character in fiction"-bested Frenchy Thoreau, a cattle-thief and worse, with oddly chivalrous ideas but a killer as quick-witted as swift on the draw. On the prairies and mountain trails of the Canadian-U.S. border, rife with rustlers' feuds and treacherous bands of outlawed Indians, Blue Pete relentlessly stalked his dangerous quarry. At bay, Thoreau turned and struck with deadly precision, and Blue Pete, out manoeuvred and out-gunned, was jammed in the tightest corner of his rip-roaring career.

The Story:In this exhilarating, fast-moving yarn, Blue Pete, against the express wish of Inspector Barker of the Royal Mounted Police, sets out to avenge the brutal murder of a rancher and his wife. Once again, relying on his ready wit and the lightning draw of his heavy six-shooter, he justifies his action and beats the murderers-but only after he has found himself in the most desperate situation of his chequered career."Blue Pete," the critics agree, "is the most famous cowboy in fiction." His reckless, snap-shooting exploits have proved immensely popular in a score of thrilling novels. This new one is the equal of any.

This story opens in California from whence the scene is transferred to the picturesque Balearic Islands where the main drama takes place. It reveals the reactions of two young people-wage slaves-who are suddenly released from bondage by a substantial legacy, and shows how the even tenor of their lives was abruptly ended in the most romantic of surroundings. Although they were not married, Milly and Hall lived together, both happy in the knowledge of their mutual love, and content to forget the world and its attendant cares in their newly-created paradise. Yet looming up on the distant horizon a storm-cloud slowly approached, finally to burst in all its fury upon the unsuspecting couple. It is a dramatic and absorbing love story.

BLUE PETE WAS one of the smartest detective "guys" you could come across. He was the terror of all wrong¬doers, and there wasn't much that he would miss with a revolver. At the same time, he was human enough to love desperately. Blue Pete it a most fascinating character; you never know what he it going to do next. Luke Allan has written a book of breathless excitement and adventure.

The story tells of a house party, which, by way of novelty, is held at a summer camping the Canadian wilds. The camp, though delightful in the summer, is a grim and desolate spot in the winter, as the party soon find out. An atmosphere of eerieness and danger is cleverly created by the author, and leads up to a startling tragedy. The mystery surrounding the murder is complete at first, and its ultimate solution lacks nothing in the way of unexpectedness. Here we have excitement, murder, and a dramatic denouement in the best "thriller" tradition, but Luke Allan has this time given us more than the usual ration. The atmosphere of tension and danger which overhangs the characters throughout places this latest Luke Allan high up in the "thriller" class.

Detective Gordon Muldrew is called to the prestigious Wanderers' Club in NYC because of a murder just inside the doors to the club. "The girl, they decided, was about twenty-four. She was beautiful, but with a beauty soiled and hardened by a make-up carefully but too liberally applied. Her clothes were expensive and becoming, and her hands were soft and white, with well-manicured nails."Miss Luscombe is a most mysterious person and every member at the club is a suspect. This fast paced search proves fatal for some and 'Tiger Lillie', ace reporter for The Star cannot keep up with all the action.

Tom Bristow fears for his life after turning 'State's Evidence' against a criminal gang. Inspector Muldrew has reasons to believe that one source of his fears may come from a Canadian connection. He and Star reporter, Tiger Lillie, travel to Ontario to look into the mystery. 1930s.

Rex Dalton is the son of a gangster. His father dies in front of him and Rex knows that it is murder and swears to catch the murderer. As he grows up, this heritage never leaves him, causing family problems. Will Rex ever free himself for the better?

Lacey Amy (1877-1962) is known foremost for the series of 'Blue Pete' Western Canadian Mountie stories. He also created Detective Muldrew and a series of mysteries around New York City in 1930s. Here are five short stories, three Westerns and two philosophical descriptions. Included is a period essay 'Degrading a Generation'.