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What if the strongest walls offer no safety from the secrets inside?
A lonely fortress stands beside a wild coast. Inside, danger, secrets and desire share the stone corridors. In Terror Keep, Edgar Wallace brings the brooding world of the old dark house to a coastal castle, where the promise of shelter sits uneasily beside the threat of harm.
Hidden facts drive this mystery forward. Someone knows something; someone else wants it kept quiet. Wallace leaves you to weigh what people reveal and what they conceal. With quick pacing and a puzzle to chew on, the story invites you to question whom to trust when attraction and risk draw close.
What you’ll discover
- A fortress of unease Explore a coastal setting where strong walls suggest protection but cannot promise safety.
- Secrets worth questioning Follow hidden facts and guarded truths as you try to untangle the mystery.
- Danger beside desire Discover the uneasy pull of attraction in a story that keeps danger close.
- A brisk unfolding puzzle Enjoy Wallace's quick pace as each concealed fact gives you something more to question.
- The old dark house Step into a world of stone corridors, brooding mystery and secrets behind thick walls.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this if you like detective stories with an odd, humorous hero, old houses full of secrets, caves and cliffs, and fast plots where a quiet man outwits a gang.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Mad Genius Walks Out of Broadmoor
- Margaret Takes a Job at Larmes Keep
- Reeder Sends Her Away to Keep Her Safe
- A Trap Waits in Bennett Street
- Ravini Follows Margaret and Vanishes
- Reeder Arrives and Studies the Guests
- The Gold Convoy Disappears
- A Night of Danger Closes In
- What Lies Beneath the House of Tears
Who’s who
- J. G. ReederA mild, side-whiskered detective at the Public Prosecutor's Office who claims a criminal mind and is determined to catch Flack and protect Margaret.
- Margaret BelmanA brave young woman who takes a job as secretary at Larmes Keep and soon finds herself in the middle of a hunt.
- John FlackA mad master criminal who escapes from Broadmoor, plans a huge bullion robbery and holds a grudge against Reeder.
- George RaviniA vain gang leader with diamond Luck Stones who follows Margaret to the coast and has reason to fear Flack.
- Mr. DaverThe nervous, chattering owner of Larmes Keep, who calls himself a student of crime and talks in questions he answers himself.
- Olga CreweA pale and beautiful guest at the Keep who knows the grounds well and keeps her own counsel.
- Inspector SimpsonThe practical Scotland Yard officer who doubts Reeder's theories but backs him when the danger grows.
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Terror Keep
by Edgar Wallace · 1927
Flack escapes Broadmoor with revenge in mind, and Reeder faces a deadly trap in Bennett Street.
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What happens when the cleverest criminal in England walks out of Broadmoor with a head full of plans? Edgar Wallace answers in Terror Keep, a thriller about John Flack, a mad master thief, and J. G. Reeder, a mild detective with side-whiskers who claims to have a criminal mind.
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A Mad Genius Walks Out of Broadmoor
The story opens in Broadmoor, the asylum for the criminally insane, where old John Flack shuffles around the grounds. Other patients whisper that he is the cleverest crook in the world, with nine murders to his name. He fills hundreds of exercise books with plans for crimes. His earlier sixty-three books are his pride, and he says he can find nothing to improve in them.
One day Chief Inspector Simpson of Scotland Yard visits him and warns that these books must never reach the wrong hands. Flack answers with threats. He says he will slip out one night and settle accounts with two men. One is George Ravini, who betrayed him for money. The other is J. G. Reeder, the detective who helped to catch him.
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What is Terror Keep about?
It follows the escape of the mad criminal John Flack from Broadmoor and the efforts of the detective J. G. Reeder to stop a huge gold robbery, while Margaret Belman works at a mysterious coastal house.
Who is J. G. Reeder?
A detective at the Public Prosecutor's Office who looks gloomy and old-fashioned, wears side-whiskers and carries an umbrella. He says he has a criminal mind, which helps him think like the men he hunts.
Who is John Flack in Terror Keep?
Flack is a master criminal who plans bank and bullion robberies with great skill. He is sent to Broadmoor as insane, escapes, and returns with a grudge against Reeder.
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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