The Wheel of Death

The Wheel of Death  (1933) by Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott Contents

The Vermilion Seal→

The second Spider novel and the last by R. T. M. Scott. First printed in vol. 1, no. 2 of the The Spider, dated November 1933, a pulp magazine in the "Hero Pulp" subgenre starring the titular vigilante.

Mysterious death, suicide, and madness took uncanny toll of New York's most prominent citizens. Only the Spider sensed the presence of the criminal genius whose tentacles were strangling the city— and the Spider was next on the crime monster's death list!

Contents

1. The Vermilion Seal
2. Pursuit
3. Wentworth Telephones — Under Difficulties!
4. Behind the Barricade
5. Fire!
6. The Disappearing Safe
7. Master of Seven Million People!
8. Mortimer Mack's Place
9. The Woman Called Cora
10. Blackmail — and Murder!
11. In a Tight Spot
12. Police Threat
13. Nita Disappears
14. Again the Seal
15. "Richard Wentworth is the Spider!"
16. The Spider In Action
17. The Dark Hours Before Dawn
18. Going Down!
19. Through the Flames
20. Murder Masquerade

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