Edgar Wallace

Four Just Men Edgar Wallace

When the Foreign Secretary, Sir Philip Ramon, receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter; 'We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening - The Four Just Men', he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitroglycerine, leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart and The Four Just Men dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice cannot touch. If you leave the Plaza del Mina, go down the narrow street, where, from ten till four, the big flag of the United States Consulate hangs lazily; through the square on which the Hotel de la France fronts, round by the Church of Our Lady, and along the clean, narrow thoroughfare that is the High Street of Cadiz, you will come to the Cafe of the Nations. At five o'clock there will be few people in the broad,