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Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our protagonist Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street...Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private investigator, he intends to get to the bottom of this mess...

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 500+ audiobooks, all ad freeIn Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to them were derided, and the only people who mattered were the caballeros – who styled themselves as knights of the New World. These men strutted about in elegant clothes, riding magnificent horses, and sporting rapiers at their sides that they were quick to draw if they felt their honor was affronted. Into this world burst Zorro (Spanish for “fox”). A later-day Robin Hood, he stole from the rich ...

Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley and creator of Zorro) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our hero Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street... Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private detective, he intends to get to the bottom of the mess he is in.