The Man Who Was Plucked

The Man Who Was Plucked 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: On Sunday night Martaus Club is always crowded with the smartest of the smart people who remain in Town over the week-end.
Martaus Club is a place of shaded lights, of white napery, of glittering silver and glass, of exotic flowers, the tables set about the walls framing a parallelogram of shining f This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.