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100	1		_aRidley, Nat
245	1	4	_aThe double dagger
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-04-19
508			_aAaron Adrignola, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520			_a"The Double Dagger: or, Nat Ridley's Mexican Trail" by Nat Ridley, Jr. is a detective novel written in the mid-1920s. The story centers on Nat Ridley, a well-known detective in New York, who is drawn into a dangerous mystery involving the notorious Tola society, a secretive and deadly group linked to a series of murders. After his rival, Carl Lemberg, seeks his urgent help amidst mysterious family killings, Ridley becomes entangled in an international case that leads from the bustling streets of New York to the ominous oil fields of Mexico. With the central character facing deadly adversaries, undercover work, and escalating threats, the novel promises a classic detective adventure marked by intrigue and high stakes. The opening of the book introduces Nat Ridley in his Times Square office, receiving a surprising appeal for help from rival detective Carl Lemberg. Lemberg confides that his brother, uncle, and chief assistant have all been murdered, each killing bearing the mark of a double dagger, a symbol tied to the ancient Tola society from Mexico. As Ridley agrees to take the case, further violence erupts: Lemberg himself is murdered, and Nat narrowly survives an assassination attempt. Ridley and his assistant Berry Todd navigate threats, subterfuge, and undercover encounters with suspected members of the Tola gang, gradually piecing together clues from stolen and recovered documents. The suspenseful opening sets the stage for a larger pursuit of the killers, as Ridley prepares to follow the trail to Texas and beyond. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGarden City: Garden City Publishing, 1926
653			_aDetective and mystery stories
653			_aMexico -- Fiction
653			_aDime novels
856	4		_uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433092394620&view=1up&seq=7
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75909
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