SEXTON BLAKE: THE COMPLETE WALDO, VOLUME 1: Blakiana Collectors' Series

Edwy Searles Brooks
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Of the many villains who opposed Sexton Blake, the great detective, none was so filled with exuberance than Rupert Waldo, the Wonder-Man. Endowed with the strength of ten men and incapable of feeling pain, Waldo’s exploits thrilled readers young and old between 1918 and 1933. His crimes were audacious, his stunts were breathtaking, his joie de vivre was infectious! Created by Edwy Searles Brooks, Waldo was a forerunner to characters such as “The Saint” but with a dash of early Superman thrown in (before Superman was created, of course). THE COMPLETE WALDO collection gathers together all of Waldo’s encounters with Sexton Blake in chronological order, with annotations and introductions by Blake expert and award-winning author Mark Hodder. In this first volume, the Wonder-Man makes his debut at a circus in WALDO, THE WONDER-MAN; he cracks a safe with his bare hands in THE CLUE OF THE FIVE HAIRS; he sends Sexton Blake on an unwilling voyage to the Pacific in THE SHANGHAIED DETECTIVE; and he carries out an audacious jewel theft in THE CASE OF THE STACEY RUBIES. It adds up to over 100,000 words of thrilling “story paper” thrills and spills!
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