The Fourth Plague or Red Hand

The Fourth Plague or Red Hand by Edgar Wallace is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: South of Florence by some sixty miles, and west of Rome by almost thrice the distance, upon three hills, is Siena, the most equable of the cities of Tuscany.
On the Terzo di Città in I know not what contrada, is the Palazzo Festini. It stands aloof in its gloomy and dilapidated magnificence, and sin This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.