The Golden Bat

This crime thriller revolves around two friends, Lytton Barle who is head of the Secret Squad at New Scotland, and Ray. Ray is back in England looking for Edward Keen, the man who robbed him of £40,000. He seeks out Barley and both decide to work together in fighting crime. Excerpt: «Mr. Barle,» he said, earnestly, «you have given me a clue worth its weight in diamonds. And some unthinking folk prate of what they call trifles! Trifles, by gad! With any luck, I am going to get my money back and lay your gang by the heels at the same time. All I ask is a free hand here. Give me an introduction to the superintendent of police at Shepperton or in that district and leave the rest to me. Call your men off, and let me have the run of my intellectual teeth for a month, and if I fail then count me out altogether.»