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100 1 _aMatull, Kurt,
_d1872-1920
245 1 0 _aLord Lister No. 0033: De Alarmkreet
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-29
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Lord Lister No. 0033: De Alarmkreet" by Kurt Matull and Theo von Blankensee is a serialized crime adventure story written in the early 20th century. It follows the gentleman-thief John C. Raffles (Lord Lister) and his loyal aide Charly Brand as they target a scurrilous London weekly, De Alarmkreet, whose editor Röttger and his partner “the Beautiful Guido” extort and slander for profit. Raffles mounts an elaborate sting to expose the blackmailers, protect their victims, and simultaneously outmaneuver the ever-harried Inspector Baxter. The opening of the story paints De Alarmkreet as a gaudy yet shabby scandal sheet that hides its editors and survives by shaking down the vulnerable. After the paper smears Raffles, Charly meets fur-merchant Thomas Spancer, who is being blackmailed over a shopgirl’s attempted suicide. Raffles then lures editor Röttger by posing as “Detective Marholm,” brandishing a forged “Raffles-to-Baxter” letter that suggests police collusion, which prompts Röttger and Guido to try extorting Inspector Baxter directly. The real Marholm overhears, privately contacts Raffles, and agrees to help spring the trap. Next, Raffles masquerades as “Lord Melbourne,” the supposed poisoner of his stepmother, and receives the pair in his villa with Charly disguised as a butler, setting up a “salutary lesson” as the confrontation begins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cAmsterdam: Roman- Boek- en Kunsthandel, 1910
653 _aDetective and mystery stories -- Periodicals
653 _aDime novels -- Periodicals
700 1 _aBlankensee, Theo von,
_d1881-1928
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76761
999 _c117486
_d117486