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What if the next great weapon attacks not people, but the grain that keeps them alive?
In The Green Rust, Edgar Wallace builds a thriller around a threat to the food nations depend on. Rust, a plant disease that attacks grain, becomes a weapon. Behind the danger lies a hidden scheme, protected by secrecy. Those hunting it face stakes that reach far beyond a single crime.
The chase turns on a question: what happens when knowledge of nature falls into the wrong hands? Science promises better harvests, yet it can also threaten them. Wallace keeps that danger close through scheming, pursuit and quick chapters, giving the story a sense that time is running short.
What you’ll discover
- A harvest under threat Feel the urgency of a mystery in which the food supply itself is at risk.
- Secrets worth pursuing Follow determined hunters toward a hidden scheme whose planners depend on keeping their purpose concealed.
- Science turned against life Explore the danger of knowledge used to destroy the crops it might otherwise help protect.
- A swiftly moving chase Let quick chapters and clear stakes carry you through a tale of secrecy and pursuit.
- Danger beyond one victim Enter a crime story that makes the safety of the harvest a matter of worldwide concern.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy a fast thriller with a clever detective, a spirited heroine and a scheming villain will find plenty here.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A dying millionaire and a knife
- The drunk across the landing
- Fired, searched and accused
- A strange office and a warning in code
- Death in the palm court
- The doctor takes what he wants
- A parson, a professor and a broken bag
- Deans Folly
- False faces and a gripping style
Who’s who
- Oliva CresswellA quick witted shop cashier who refuses to be frightened into obedience.
- Stanford BealeAn American detective who is set on stopping the Green Rust.
- Dr. van HeerdenA bearded doctor born on the German side of the border, who plots to ruin the Anglo-Saxon world and needs money fast.
- James KitsonA careful solicitor who promised his dying friend to guard a hidden heiress and hired Beale to protect her.
- Superintendent McNortonA bluff Scotland Yard officer who helps Beale and slowly accepts how serious the Green Rust threat is.
- Parson HomoAn educated burglar and former clergyman, polite and mocking, who ends up helping Beale for reasons of his own.
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The Green Rust
by Edgar Wallace · 1919
A cashier loses her job.
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What if one man could ruin the wheat of a whole continent? In The Green Rust, Edgar Wallace sends a London shop cashier, a seeming drunk and a scheming doctor into a race against that plan.
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A dying millionaire and a knife
At Hill Lodge, a cottage on a Sussex hilltop, the shipbuilder John Millinborn lies dying. His friend, the solicitor James Kitson, sits beside him. Millinborn leaves a fortune of a million and a half pounds to a niece named Oliva Cresswell, who lives in London.
She must not learn of the money until she is married, for he fears fortune hunters. Kitson promises to watch over her.
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What is The Green Rust about?
It follows Oliva Cresswell, a London cashier, and Stanford Beale, a detective, as they try to stop Dr. van Heerden. He plans to force other nations to pay his country.
What is the Green Rust in the book?
A tiny amount can rot a whole wheat field in a day, and the villain wants to release it across many countries at a signal.
Who is Stanford Beale?
Beale is an American detective, once with the United States Secret Service, hired by Mr. Kitson to protect Oliva. He pretends to be a drunk in Krooman Mansions so that he can watch the doctor without being suspected.
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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