Although he reached the rank of Major, during the First World War, Jack Thornleigh is still young and his thirst for excitement is undiminished. But even he may have got more than he bargained for when the murder of an Italian in the Piccadilly subway embroils him in a Mafioso plot. Together with an American agent, he travels from London to the New Forest and finally to Paris in order to foil the creation of a New Mafia - and to rescue a young woman for whom this scheme poses an altogether more personal threat...
The Rev. Ottwell Binns was an English clergyman, who also harboured an enthusiasm for the less holy delights of pulp fiction and cinematic B-movies - an enthusiasm which bore fruit in a number of thrillers, written under the pseudonym of Ben Bolt. Originally published in 1930, The Subway Mystery is an old-fashioned yarn, replete with gangsters, car chases, and damsels in distress!
The Rev. Ottwell Binns was an English clergyman, who also harboured an enthusiasm for the less holy delights of pulp fiction and cinematic B-movies - an enthusiasm which bore fruit in a number of thrillers, written under the pseudonym of Ben Bolt. Originally published in 1930, The Subway Mystery is an old-fashioned yarn, replete with gangsters, car chases, and damsels in distress!
