The Flying Squad by Edgar Wallace

Name: The Flying Squad
Author: Edgar Wallace

The novel follows the adventures of Detective Inspector Jack "The Terror" Tarling and his team of detectives from Scotland Yard's Flying Squad. Tarling and his team are tasked with solving a series of daring robberies that have been taking place in London. As the robberies become more daring and the criminals more elusive, Tarling and his team must use all of their skills and resources to catch the criminals before they can strike again. The novel is a thrilling crime story that follows Tarling and his team as they investigate the robberies and attempt to bring the criminals to justice. Along the way, they must contend with corrupt police officers, dangerous criminals, and a mysterious mastermind behind the robberies. The novel is a thrilling and suspenseful read that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

By Edgar Wallace · First published 1924 · Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction · 27 chapters · 78,703 words

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Lady's Stairs was a crazy wooden house overlooking and overhanging the creek between canal and river. You saw it from the lock that marked the place where canal ended and the broad, muddy estuary began, a sagging barn of a place, supported on huge wooden piles, with a dingy facade which had once been painted white, and then not painted again. It was streaked and blurred by nature to strange neutral shades that would have rendered it invisible but for the fact that it was wedged between a high warehouse on the one side and the barrel-roof of an ironworks on the other. Beneath the main rooms the creek ran, rising to within a few feet of Li Yoseph's sitting-room in flood-time.

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Work type: Novel
Author: Edgar Wallace
Date: 1924 CE
Language: English
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Adventure
Length: 78,703 words
Structure: 27 chapters, 3,605 paragraphs
Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)

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Mystery — The Flying Squad is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace, which follows the story of a police squad as they investigate a series of mysterious robberies.
Thriller — The Flying Squad is a thrilling novel that follows the police squad as they race against time to solve the mysterious robberies.
Crime Fiction — The Flying Squad is a crime fiction novel that follows the police squad as they investigate a series of mysterious robberies.
Adventure — The Flying Squad is an adventure novel that follows the police squad as they embark on a thrilling journey to solve the mysterious robberies.