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When the courts cannot touch a wrongdoer, who has the right to decide the punishment?
In Edgar Wallace’s The Three Just Men, three determined men act where the law falls short. Manfred leads with calm resolve. Leon Gonsalez understands how criminals think. Poiccart brings steady, practical skill. Together, they move quietly through a world of schemers, hidden motives and dangerous secrets, pursuing wrongdoers beyond the courts’ reach.
Wallace keeps the story moving with short scenes, a fast plot and sharp portraits of crooks and policemen. But beneath the suspense lies a question that refuses to stay quiet: if good men take punishment into their own hands, what keeps them good? The trio’s strict sense of justice faces the troubling gap between law and right.
What you’ll discover
- Three distinct minds Meet a calm leader, a quick criminal thinker and a quietly capable partner.
- Justice beyond the courts Follow men who pursue wrongdoers the law cannot touch, guided by their own code.
- Secrets beneath the surface Enter a world where schemers and hidden motives keep the trio’s work dangerous.
- A brisk unfolding mystery Enjoy short scenes and sharp character sketches that keep the crime story moving.
- A stubborn moral question Consider whether a just purpose gives anyone the right to deliver private punishment.
Who will love it
For readers who love chases, disguises and clever tricks, and for anyone who enjoys a villain with grand plans and heroes who make their own rules. Fans of old London crime will feel at home.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- An odd advertisement draws a country girl to London
- A frightened stranger brings his secret to Curzon Street
- A snake kills in public and nobody sees it
- A drugged orangeade at the Arts Ball
- The farm becomes a battlefield
- A blind man at Rath Hall holds a letter in Braille
- A hill of gold with a date on it
- Oberzohn plays every card at once
- Justice outside the law, and how Wallace tells it
Who’s who
- Mirabelle LeicesterA brave farm girl and astronomer's daughter who takes a laboratory job and finds herself the target of a plot she cannot understand.
- Dr. Eruc OberzohnA tall, tireless Swedish schemer who admires philosophy, trades in arms and wants a fortune at any cost.
- Leon GonsalezThe witty, daring chauffeur and one of the Three Just Men, who guards Mirabelle and loves clever traps.
- George ManfredThe calm, gentlemanly head of the Triangle Detective Agency and leader of the Three.
- PoiccartThe quiet butler and strategist of the Three, who has tried growing onions in Seville.
- Captain Monty NewtonA smooth, well-dressed gambler and Oberzohn's partner, who wants the girl and her money.
- Joan NewtonMonty's lively companion, drawn into the plot and torn between loyalty to him and pity for Mirabelle.
- Inspector MeadowsThe Scotland Yard detective who tries to solve the snake murders by the book.
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I tre giusti
by Edgar Wallace · 1925
A farm girl answers a newspaper advertisement.
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A snake escapes from the London Zoo, and soon men are dropping dead in the open street with two small marks on their skin. The Three Just Men is a thriller by Edgar Wallace about three pardoned avengers.
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An odd advertisement draws a country girl to London
Mirabelle Leicester lives at Heavytree Farm with her aunt Alma Goddard, and money is short. When she spots an advertisement for a laboratory secretary at a fine salary, she applies at once. The wording asks for a young woman whose family has standing in science, and her late father was an astronomer.
She is interviewed at the City Road office of Oberzohn and Smitts, in a bare room with gold walls and a purple carpet. Dr. Eruc Oberzohn, a tall Swede with an enormous forehead, hires her on the spot and pays ten pounds in advance. He sends her to count jars in a laboratory that smells of fresh paint. The telegram she writes to her aunt goes straight into his fire.
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What is The Three Just Men about?
A farm girl named Mirabelle Leicester takes a laboratory job and is targeted by Dr. Oberzohn's gang, who want a gold claim she owns. Three pardoned avengers protect her while a mysterious snake kills people in London.
Who are the Three Just Men?
They are George Manfred, Leon Gonsalez and Poiccart, rich men who once punished criminals the law could not reach. Now pardoned, they run a detective agency from Curzon Street.
Do I need to read The Four Just Men first?
No. The story explains who the Just Men are and what they did, so a new reader can follow it easily, and earlier events are only background.
The author
Edgar Wallace
1875–1932 · British crime writer
Edgar Wallace was a hugely prolific British writer of thrillers and crime fiction who later co-created the story for King Kong. The Adventures of Heine follows Heine, a German secret agent, through a series of comic misadventures in Britain during the First World War.
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