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What if opening a sealed tomb means uncovering more than anyone is ready to face?
In Edgar Wallace’s The Tomb of Ts'in, Captain Stanley and his scholarly companions search for the final resting place of Ts’in Shi Huang. Their expedition leads into a world of hidden chambers, secret scrolls, and cryptic clues. What begins as a hunt for buried history becomes a dangerous test of curiosity.
Riddles and betrayal complicate the search, while supernatural threats blur the boundary between legend and reality. Stanley faces a struggle between ambition, honor, and fear. With plain language, short scenes, and a steady push toward surprise, Wallace turns the promise of discovery into a question: what might this knowledge cost?
What you’ll discover
- A tomb full of questions Enter hidden chambers where each clue offers discovery and the possibility of danger.
- Curiosity with a cost Follow a search that tests the boundary between seeking knowledge and disturbing protected secrets.
- A captain under pressure Watch Stanley weigh ambition against honor as fear shadows the expedition.
- Legend meets mystery Explore a tale where ancient burial secrets and supernatural threats draw close together.
- China through Wallace’s eyes Encounter an early twentieth-century adventure shaped by Western ideas about ancient China.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this book if you like early twentieth century adventure, clever detectives, secret societies and buried treasure. It suits readers who enjoy mystery mixed with comedy and love.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Three attacks on a ship's safe
- A shabby captain rescues a girl in Hyde Park
- The Ambassador dies and a body hides in a drawer
- Soo and de Costa plot and two burglars meet
- A comic party, an invented company and a kidnapping
- A stolen paper and a proposal at five in the morning
- The road to Hoo Sin and the search for the mountain
- Greed, wealth and honor drive every person
- East meets West through the eyes of its time
- A friend tells the tale with comedy and suspense
Who’s who
- Captain Ted TalhamA penniless soldier of fortune with a gift for speeches, who hunts the buried emperor's secret and falls in love with Yvonne.
- TillizinniAn Italian anthropologist and Scotland Yard's detective, who follows the stolen papers and becomes Talham's friend and partner.
- Yvonne YaleA clear-headed young woman who owns the old jade bangle and refuses to betray Talham, whatever the threat.
- SooA polished, Oxford-trained Chinese leader of the Society of Good Intention who wants the tomb's treasure and revenge.
- Raymond de CostaA rich, fat shipowner with a pirate's past, who plots to seize the tomb's treasure.
- Gregory de CostaHis stout, anxious son, who loves Yvonne without hope and gave her the bracelet by mistake.
- Mrs. YaleYvonne's stepmother, a hopeful investor deep in debt, who wants her stepdaughter to make a good marriage.
- Prince Chu-Hsi-HanThe scholarly Chinese Ambassador whose historical papers draw thieves seeking the First Emperor’s burial place.
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The Tomb of Ts'in
by Edgar Wallace · 1916
An attacked ship's safe, a strangled ambassador and a jade bracelet link Captain Talham to a buried emperor.
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What would you do if thieves tried three times to open a ship's safe, and the safe held nothing of value? In The Tomb of Ts'in, that puzzle starts a chase through London and then across China.
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Three attacks on a ship's safe
A liner, the Wu-song, runs aground off the Goodwin Sands in a November fog. In the confusion, someone tries to force the safe in the captain's cabin. Scotland Yard takes an interest, because this is the third attempt on the voyage.
The first came in the Suez Canal. The second came near Gibraltar, when thieves tried to blow the safe during church service. Yet the safe held no money. It held ship's papers and a green mailbag with the Chinese Ambassador's private papers, which the Embassy calls merely rare old documents.
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Wallace, Edgar. The Tomb of Ts'in. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tomb-of-ts-in.
Wallace, E. (2026). The tomb of Ts'in. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tomb-of-ts-in (Original work published 1916)
Wallace, Edgar. The Tomb of Ts'in. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tomb-of-ts-in.
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What is The Tomb of Ts'in about?
It follows the hunt for the buried tomb of China's first emperor, Ts'in Hwang Ti. A detective, a penniless adventurer and a young woman race against a secret society and a rich shipowner, using a jade bracelet and old papers.
Who is Tillizinni?
Tillizinni is an Italian anthropologist and a gifted detective who works with Scotland Yard. He speaks many languages, solves puzzles quietly, and joins Captain Talham's search for the tomb out of friendship and curiosity.
Is Ts'in Hwang Ti a real person?
Yes. Ts'in Hwang Ti was the first emperor of a united China, who died about two centuries before the birth of Christ. The tomb with rivers of quicksilver is described by an old Chinese historian.
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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