The Avenger
by Edgar Wallace
260 pages~4 hrs
“Behind the glamour of the screen lies a nightmare that won't stay buried.”
A gruesome discovery sends a Foreign Office investigator deep into a web of missing film stars and high-stakes kidnapping. As the mystery of a severed head unfolds, the lines between the glitz of the silver screen and a deadly obsession begin to blur.
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