ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1942
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

This book contains three early Captain North adventures set in the Far East: THE SULU SEA MURDERS(1933), THE FORT TERROR MURDERS (1931) and THE SHANGHAI BUND MURDERS (1933).
In THE SULU SEA MURDERS Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., is investigating a shooting in a bar in Zamboanga. A peardiver named George Lee is dying from a wound inflicted by an unidentified American soldier. The murderer is probably from Fort Winfield on the nearby island of Sanga Sanga. Before dying Lee tells North about some lost pearls.
As an officer of the Department of Criminal Investigation, North proceeds to Fort Winfield to find the killer. This is not a spy story. It is a tale about an investigation of a series of murders. In fact, North is sometimes referred to in the novel as a detective.
In THE FORT TERROR MURDERS Captain Hugh North of Army Intelligence Services is a guest at a dinner party at the residence of Colonel Peter Andrews. The colonel is the commanding officer of Fort Espanto in the Philippines.
The original parts of the fort were built as a Jesuit monastery in 1660. A legend about hidden treasure in the fort has been passed down through generations of local residents. A Spanish officer vanished from the fort in 1801 shortly after he announced that he had learned the location of the treasure. In 1916 two men were killed after they arrived from Spain to search for the treasure.
During the dinner party Inez Sarolla tells the guests about the treasure. A search party for the treasure is spontaneously organized led by Ricardo Mendez, a cousin of Inez, and Lieutenant Dale Bowen, the fiance of Inez. Mendez and Bowen disappear into the old ruins of the fort. Later a scream is heard. Mendez is found dead from a knife wound but Bowen is missing.
Colonel Andrews asks North to conduct an investigation of the murder. North begins his search both for the murderer and the location of the treasure. His only clues are two rosaries and a little piece of sheepskin. One rosary contains three extra beads while the other has six extra beads. The solution to this puzzle will lead to the treasure. The entire investigation lasts less than two days and in many respects the style of the novel resembles a classic mystery story of the post World War I era.
In THE SHANGHAI BUND MURDERS Captain Hugh North of G-2 is on a river boat heading towards Shanghai during a time when there is much fighting and turbulence surrounding that city. On the trip a young Englishman named Trenchard is murdered. North is joined on the boat by his friend from British military intelligence, Bruce Kilgour. North learns that Trenchard was a British agent trying to get information on an arms shipment being sent to General Wang, a warlord with ties to French and Italian interests. Wang is now threatening Shanghai which is defended by General Yuan who is backed by England and the United States. A third army planning to attack Shanghai is led by an American soldier of fortune named Sam Steel. He is an employee of a warlord named Wu.
After North arrives in Shanghai, he meets with American Admiral Clegg who explains the difficult task awaiting the intelligence captain. North`s mission is to locate the arms shipment before either General Wang or Sam Steel can seize it. Hopefully North can find the shipment in time to prevent a disaster for the American and English residents of Shanghai.
Almost every country with a political or economic interest in Shanghai has a representative engaged in the struggle to acquire the arms shipment. As usual North finds that the lines between friend and foe often seem blurred.
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