THE VANISHED MESSENGER (1914)
There were very few people up on platform number 21 of Liverpool Street station...
Two of them happen to be our heroes: an American John P Dunster who is going toan international conference in The Hague and a professional golfer Gerald Fentolin.
Fentolin has "missed" his train to Harwich and contrives to get himself on the private train that Dunster is taking to the port for the ferry to the continent.
Thanks to a timely flood in eastern England Fentolin is able to waylay Dumpster; he is imprisoned in a castle until the conference Dunster should attend is concluded and England's secrets are safe once more. The castle though is the home of a crippled genius engaged in selling secrets to Germany.
The machinations of Germany and her allies are foiled.
Yet another look at the Hun's antics published in the year that WW1 started. Obviously Mr Fentolin and Oppenheim's other sterling heroes fail to stop the war; just as Buchan's Hannay failed.
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