TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,Edgar
TI  - The clue of the new pin
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
KW  - Millionaires -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2023-05-29; Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Originally published; United States: A. L. Burt, 1923
N2  - "The Clue of the New Pin" by Edgar Wallace is a mystery novel likely written in the early 20th century. The narrative unfolds in a bustling city setting, focusing on a complex web of characters revolving around the enigmatic Mr. Jesse Trasmere, a wealthy man whose death sparks intrigue and a plethora of intertwined stories involving theft, deception, and possibly murder.  At the start of the book, we are introduced to Yeh Ling, the owner of a Chinese restaurant, and Jesse Trasmere, who lives a peculiar life marked by isolation and secretive dealings. Yeh Ling is engaged in clandestine meetings with Trasmere, revealing the latter's strange ties to the criminal underworld through his interactions with a man named Wellington Brown, who poses a threat to him. The opening portions set up a nocturnal atmosphere ripe with tension as Trasmere appears to be involved in something sinister, while at the same time, a young theatre reporter named Tab Holland inadvertently becomes entwined in the unfolding mystery surrounding Trasmere's death and the disappearance of actress Ursula Ardfern's jewels, hinting at a series of thrilling developments to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063976172
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70882
ER  -