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A daring robbery needs nerve and perfect timing. But what happens when a patient detective refuses to let go?
In Kate Plus 10, Edgar Wallace sets a clever criminal leader against a determined officer of the law. A large robbery lies at the centre of their contest. Behind it stands an organised enterprise, where planning, timing and discipline matter as much as daring. Against that order comes the steady pressure of pursuit.
Wallace keeps the contest moving through short chapters, plain sentences and scenes that push the plot forward. The pleasure lies in watching two sharp minds test each other: criminal nerve on one side, patience and observation on the other. Beneath the chase sits a question: how far can cleverness carry someone outside the law?
What you’ll discover
- Crime planned like business Explore a criminal scheme that depends on order, discipline and the nerve to act.
- A detective who persists Follow a determined officer whose patience and observation challenge a clever criminal opponent.
- Two minds in contest Enjoy the tension as careful planning meets a pursuit that will not let go.
- The limits of cleverness Consider how far intelligence can carry a person who chooses to work outside the law.
- A brisk, direct style Let short chapters and plain sentences draw you through a daring plan and its pursuit.
Who will love it
Readers who love clever criminals, witty banter between rivals, train and heist puzzles, and old-fashioned London settings, as well as anyone who enjoys a romance that grows between a detective and the thief he is chasing.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Missing Necklace Brings Back Michael
- Kate Is the Brain Behind Crime Street
- Kate Plans Like a General
- A Wager Is Made in Michael's Flat
- Two Victims Fall for Two Disguises
- A Raid, a Park Bench, and Two Explosions
- The Gold Train Vanishes, and Michael Tracks It
- What the Book Says About Honor, Money and Play
- How Wallace Builds the Chase
Who’s who
- Kate WesthangerA nineteen-year-old planner of enormous robberies who loves the game more than the loot and has never been traced to a crime.
- Michael PretherstonA witty Scotland Yard inspector and former suitor of Moya who wants to catch Kate and, to his own surprise, wants her too.
- Colonel WesthangerKate's uncle, a gray-mustached former officer who taught her to steal and now wants to retire on what the gang has gathered.
- GregoriA handsome Spaniard in the gang who is in love with Kate and resents taking her orders.
- Lady Moya FeltonThe earl's practical daughter, who treats marriage as a business arrangement until an unexpected meeting teaches her otherwise.
- Lord FlanboroughA mean-spirited mining millionaire who inherited an earldom and clings to every shilling, including the reward for a lost necklace.
- Sir Ralph SapsonA rich baronet who runs shops, docks and a railway and cares more about settlements than about the people he meets.
- Reggie BoltoverA tall, fair young heir with a vague grip on his business who is charmed by a pretty chorus girl.
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Kate Plus 10
by Edgar Wallace · 1919
Kate Westhanger plans to steal a whole train of gold, and the detective who adores her is on her trail.
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Kate Plus 10 is a crime comedy by Edgar Wallace, first printed in the years after the First World War. Wallace was a London writer who turned out thrillers at astonishing speed, and here he builds a whole book around a duel between two clever people who like each other far too much.
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A Missing Necklace Brings Back Michael
The story opens at Felton House in London, where the Earl of Flanborough is in a foul mood. He is a thin, bald, bad-tempered man who made two million pounds in mining before a stroke of luck handed him a title and a heavily mortgaged estate. This morning eighty-three pearls have vanished from his daughter's keeping, and he is drafting a notice that offers a reward he keeps cutting down until it offers nothing exact at all.
His daughter, Lady Moya, is twenty-two, pretty and sensible about money. She has gone over the night before step by step and decided the thief must be her maid, Martin, who is now locked in her room with a footman at the door. Moya is practical in love, too. Five years ago she promised to marry a poor, hot-headed young man named Michael Pretherston, then sent him a fourteen-page letter listing her conditions.
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What is Kate Plus 10 about?
It follows Kate Westhanger, a young woman who plans huge robberies, and Inspector Michael Pretherston of Scotland Yard, who is trying to catch her. Their cat-and-mouse game centers on the theft of an entire train of gold.
Who wrote Kate Plus 10 and when?
Edgar Wallace wrote it. He was a British author of crime and adventure fiction who died in 1932. The book appeared in the years after the First World War, and it keeps the manners and settings of that period.
Who is Kate Westhanger?
She is the niece of Colonel Westhanger, raised to steal on a grand scale. She plans each big crime in detail, never leaves her name on one, and enjoys the thrill more than the money.
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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