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100 1 _aLandon, Herman,
_d1882-1960
245 1 4 _aThe unknown seven
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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 2026-02-22
508 _aTim Miller, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The unknown seven" by Herman Landon is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on criminologist Kingdon Cole, who is drawn into a shadowy conspiracy tied to a missing man, Malcolm Reeves, an enigmatic scientist named Professor Carmody, and a secret council of seven masked figures. Expect urban intrigue, psychological pressure, and high-stakes cat-and-mouse play set against a clandestine New York backdrop. The opening of the novel finds Kingdon Cole staking out Professor Carmody when a mysterious woman in a limousine—calling herself Miss Brown—whisks him to a hidden suite atop a skyscraper. There, seven masked men try to bribe and coerce Cole into dropping the Reeves case; when he refuses, they plunge him into darkness, warn him via speaking tube, and present the now-insane Reeves as leverage, even threatening a brain operation to break Cole’s will. Cole narrowly escapes an ether-laced “operation” by seizing a knife and overpowering a disguised “surgeon,” after which the masked group abruptly claims they did not harm Reeves and urges Cole to pursue a new lead: Doctor Dickson Latham, a nerve specialist they suspect, based in part on Reeves’s reaction to a staged resemblance. At the start of the next day, Cole visits Latham under an alias to take his measure; the doctor appears genial and competent as the excerpt ends mid-consultation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Chelsea House, 1923
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
653 _aPrivate investigators -- Fiction
653 _aSecret societies -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/unknownsevenadet00cove
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78010
999 _c118730
_d118730