Frank L. Packard
The Complete Jimmie Dale Mysteries (All 4 Novels in One Edition)
The First "Masked Hero": The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale...
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2159-2
Table of Contents
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE
JIMMIE DALE AND THE PHANTOM CLUE
JIMMIE DALE AND THE BLUE ENVELOPE MURDER
THE ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE
Chapter IV. The Counterfeit Five
Chapter V. The Affair of the Pushcart Man
Chapter VIII. The Man Higher Up
Chapter IX. Two Crooks and a Knave
Part Two: The Woman in the Case
Chapter I. Below the Dead Line
Chapter IV. The Innocent Bystander
Chapter IX. The Tocsin's Story
Chapter XII. John Johansson—Four-two-eight
Chapter XIV. Out of the Darkness
Chapter XVI. "Death to the Gray Seal!"
Part One:
The Man in the Case
Chapter I.
The Gray Seal
Among New York's fashionable and ultra-exclusive clubs, the St. James stood an acknowledged leader—more men, perhaps, cast an envious eye at its portals, of modest and unassuming taste, as they passed by on Fifth Avenue, than they did at any other club upon the long list that the city boasts. True, there were more expensive clubs upon whose membership roll scintillated more stars of New York's social set, but the St. James was distinctive. It guaranteed a man, so to speak—that is, it guaranteed a man to be innately a gentleman. It required money, it is true, to keep up one's membership, but there were many members who were not wealthy, as wealth is measured nowadays—there were many, even, who were pressed sometimes to meet their dues and their house accounts, but the accounts were invariably promptly paid. No man, once in, could ever afford, or ever had the desire, to resign from the St. James Club. Its membership was cosmopolitan; men of every walk in life passed in and out of its doors, professional men and business men, physicians, artists, merchants, authors, engineers, each stamped with the "hall mark" of the St. James, an innate gentleman. To receive a two weeks' out-of-town visitor's card to the St. James was something to speak about, and men from Chicago, St. Louis, or San Francisco spoke of it with a sort of holier-than-thou air to fellow members of their own exclusive clubs, at home again.
Is there any doubt that Jimmie Dale was a gentleman—an INNATE gentleman? Jimmie Dale's father had been a member of the St. James Club, and one of