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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.
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