Books published by Stillwoods

Many are the letters received from admirers of the celebrated Author and creator of Yvonne; numerous the requests for more and still more of that Author's work. And in presenting "The Broken Span," which introduces Jim Potter, an entirely new character, the Skipper feels sure that it will rank high in his readers' esteem as one of the best of its kind. A wonderful story of bridge building in Canada, the first of a new series, introducing Sexton Blake, Tinker, Pedro and Jim Potter, by the author of Yvonne, etc.

The scenes of this thrilling story vary from Havre and Paris, to the romantic islands of Polynesia, where the last threads of the plots are finally untangled. John Crane, a middle-aged man of wealth and adventure, is asleep on his ocean-going yacht in the Port of Havre, when he is unduly awakened in the wee small hours of the morning upon the insistance of an Englishman, just arrived from Paris by motor. The Englishman reveals himself as a friend of Martin Todd, an old pal of Crane's, who has agreed to help a group of Russian Noblemen in an endeavor to smuggle some valuable jewels out of Russia. Crane, of course, is eager to accept the jewels and guard them, although he is warned that Soviet agents will cause trouble. And thus the plot is launched. Next the scene shifts to the Paris Underworld, where Anne Walton, the daughter of a rich planter, is discovered on an errand of mercy. A gripping, hair-raising story.

John Alliston, alias William Torrence loses his fortune in a gamble to double his fortunes. At the same time he is watched and later attached, losing everything-even his real identity. Then he is convicted of killing one of his gambling company. Eventually he earns his freedom, but his identity in England is covered by another, and his Father is murdered. Blake takes the solution of this murderer under task from Jack Alliston, grandson and heir apparent to Alliston Hall.

"The Britisher followed his words with a swift blow when New York's gang chieftain tried to take his girl. From his pocket the gangster fired, and that was the incident that brought Sexton Blake to the bootleggers' headquarters, Rum Row, the region of dark intrigue, perilous excitement. And there he met also, Mademoiselle Roxane." Sexton Blake meets Mademoiselle Roxane in Canada!

Dr. Huxton Rymer and Mademoiselle Yvonne Cartier join forces to steal bullion from Salvarita, Blake is on the case. Neither Blake nor Dr. Huxton Rymer know the real purpose of Yvonne-and certainly the President does not know why he is kidnapped! Yvonne has her reasons-she will be deterred by no one!

Featuring both criminal organizations, The German, Council of Eleven, and the Chinese, Brotherhood of the Yellow Beetle this is a fast action kidnapping of the British Munitions Minister. But while Sexton Blake breaks this case, he is himself kidnapped. As the foremost problem for Prince Wu Ling, his death will be a tribute in China. Blake is in transit to Kaitu Island but the British nation with Yvonne and Tinker will do anything to save Blake-to their peril. Fast action, this is a classic, long Sexton Blake story which presages problems with Germany and China.

Lawrence Malone, private detective is hired by the three Crabbe bothers who believe they will be charged with the murder of their uncle. The case is almost open-and-shut against the youngest, a reckless lad. One complication is that there appeared to be no exit available to the killer. In any case, there are forces which don't want Malone to be on this mystery. His life is in peril.

Sir Alec Prendergast is forced to surrender his mother's pearls to cover gambling debts that were incurred due to swindling by Count Stefani and the Twisted Snake Gang. Nelson Lee advises Sir Alec to get a loan from Norman Warner, an honest moneylender but unbeknownst to all, his personal secretary, Cynthia Meadows is, in reality, Mrs. Stefani, also a convicted felon, and former member of the gang. She has been jailed-and by Nelson Lee. But she has also reformed; but once a member of the gang... Count Stefani has lost track of Cynthia but once he finds her, he has ways to steal the Prendergast Pearls held so safely in Norman Warner's safe.

Sir George Halliday, in China, is hunted by Wu Ling and The Brotherhood of the Yellow Beetle-to be killed before he can escape and return to England to warn the country about this criminal organization. He does escape, but is killed back in England upon his arrival. Since he is a friend and confident of Sexton Blake, there is reason enough for the detective to pursue. The inscrutable Orientals first kidnap Tinker and then Sir George's daughter. Their torture brings Blake to maddened heights of risk.

Sexton Blake fights New York?s gangs on their own ground in his great campaign to rescue Mademoiselle Roxane. A nerve-tingling tale of drama and thrill?COMPLETE.Gangland decreed that Mademoiselle Roxane should die. Sexton Blake decided otherwise. He has got her out of some tight corners before this, but never out of anything so difficult as an unknown hiding-place, or so desperate as the clutches of Cluck Snyder.

Thrills, Mystery?and Sexton Blake?In the West Indies. (A Complete Story.)Sexton Blake in a long story of intrigue and plot in the West Indies?thrills, mystery, and adventure! Complete in this issue, and introducing also Huxton Rymer and Marie Galante.By the author of the Mlle. Roxane and Huxton Rymer stories,From the moment when those old companions in crime, Huxton Rymer and Marie Galante, meet in the Barranquilla dance hall, things begin to happen. There is another present at the meeting, too?someone to whom this reunion was the first clue in a tropic drama of mystery and intrigue.

A Magnificent Long Complete Story of Sexton Blake and Tinker in present-day China. Behind the rebel Cantonese army in China (outwardly actuated by the Moscow "Reds") stands Wu Ling, prince of the imperial Manchu race, and Sexton Blake's enemy of old. An eclipse of the sun, long foretold by China's astronomers, is to be the signal for the uprising of the yellow race, and the driving of the foreign devils into the sea. Here, in thrilling "U. J." fashion, is told how the man from Baker Street brought a great plot to confusion. A superb yarn, as you'll agree! Enthralling Adventure with Sexton Blake in Warring China!

Dr. Huxton Rymer, an antagonist of detective Sexton Blake, has settled down to a seemingly honest life in rural England. But the temptations of crime are a bit to attractive to him and one proposal is just too tantalizing and inventive to be resisted. The results of that crime literally drop from the sky to Tinker's amazement-but the resolution takes Blake even to Paris where Rymer introduces the lovely and capable Mary Trent.

In the doorway of Dutch Pete?s dive, the broken-down English exile met his death by a murderer?s knife. What was the secret he carried with him? ? the fatal secret that had made him a victim of the terrible gang run by the Pirate of the Timor Sea? There is little law save that of gun and knife in the islands of Malay, but Sexton Blake is determined to see justice done. His fight against the notorious pirate makes a breathlessly exciting narrative with the Far East for colourful background.

From the moment Sexton Blake and his assistant find the murdered bodies of a white man and a native in a bungalow on a South Sea Island, they are on a trail that grows more and more puzzling. Blake discovers George Marsden Plummer is involved, and the manner in which he pits his skill and detective powers to bring the notorious international swindler to book, makes a novel of the most absorbing interest.

A thrilling story of adventure in Northern Africa, Paris and London. Featuring SEXTON BLAKE'S old and dangerous enemy GEORGE MARSDEN PLUMMER and his equally fearless companion VALI MATA-VALI. "If a case could not be solved, Sexton Blake was the man to solve it-"

A Sexton Blake detective story from 1922. Blake and Tinker travel to northern New Brunswick for a visit. Before they arrive, they are met at the train station with news that the host has been murdered and they must help solve 'a Mystery of the Big Woods' Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca

Unbeknownst to each other, both Sexton Blake and Dr. Huxton Rymer find themselves in search of Gold inside the new Bolshevist Russia after the revolution. As well they have been betrayed by their shipping agent. Can either of these two get their 'assignment' completed? Can either escape? Can they cooperate?

A gripping and realistic story of life in Monte Carlo and the Parisian Underworld. Introducing the famous character, Dr. Huxton Rymer, and his attractive partner, Mary Trent. The villainous Doctor Huxton Rymer has moved his craft to Monte Carlo. Here he stumbles upon a seriously ill Princess. Will his better character come out and save the Princess or is he just there for the money. And Mary Trent, his lovely companion; will she keep him on the right path? Then there is master detective Sexton Blake and Tinker who always keep a close eye for Crime!

Doctor Huxton Rymer is always looking for the easy money. In this story he arrives in Cochin, India with Mary Trent after their small ship flounders in an adventure. Here he finds a 'Coconut Pearl' and this gives him a new idea. But as so frequently happens, the master detective, Sexton Blake and assistant, Tinker arrive at the same location to assist with a copra business. Suspense and thrills follow the heroes and villain in exotic India.

June Severance, a frail wisp of a girl, is the messenger entrusted by Sexton Blake with the guardianship of the six sacred ikons. Blake's enemies imagined she would be easy prey. They were mistaken; weak of body, June shows she has a spirit of pliant steel. A stirring, human-interest detective story, Sexton Blake, the world's most popular detective, and June Severance, 'tec. Work-action-thrills-drama-intrigue!

A thriller issued from the pen of Canadian author, G. H. Teed. This is the exciting story of the Orient and of The Silver Lakes Tong, and how young Bob Kilgour struggles to save the Tong from the Black Abbot. This is the collection of six short stories featured in Modern Wonder magazine, 1938. Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca

Sexton Blake, London's master criminologist, has made a lot of worldwide enemies in Prince Menes, The Black Eagle, George Marsden Plummer, Wu Ling, The Three Musketeers, Mathew Cardolak, Madame Goupolis, Dr. Huxton Rymer and Mary Trent. When Prince Menes kidnaps Yvonne Cartier from her London duplex, Blake swears to get her back. Little does he recognize that the forces have all marshalled against him. But the Prince's infatuation with Mdlle. Cartier is destabilizing those forces of evil. Blake also has friends in Detective-inspector Thomas and the Mystery Man of 'Frisco, as well as his young and able assistant Tinker. All these events are triggered by 'The Case of the Mummified Hand'.

By the New Brunswick, Canada, author of Sexton Blake mystery stories comes this tale from 1915. It is reputed to be one of the best in the evolution of the detective. Sexton Blake, on vacation in New Brunswick, crosses paths with Hammerton Palmer, a villain that Blake has dealt with in London. This time Palmer has looked upon the fertile soils overseas, and thinks he has an air-tight investment prize.

The Black Eagle swears vengeance on the trader, Bully Blood as he rescues a young lad and his 'Pink Macaw' from the captain's brutality. Years later, that Captain has become Barnfield Gore; and at a private gambling session, he is poisoned and attacked by a Pink Macaw, even as Sexton Blake watches! More intrigue enters when Detective-Inspector Thomas seeks out Blake to help him with yet another gruesome murder. The investigation of these events is dramatic and results in some ferocious battles for Blake and Tinker!

Two grizzly murders, one in Papua and a later one in London, launch master detective, Sexton Blake on an international search for the killer. He knows his opponent-the right hand is missing and in place he sometimes uses a terrifying hook. What are the reasons for these ghastly murders? Who would do such a thing? Into the jungles go Blake and Tinker, disguised. Into the jungles with their own wild tribes, and into Gold-digger Creek and danger!