Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill American millionaire, John Millinborn. With him are his best friend, Kitson, and a local doctor, the Dutch (or is he?) van Heerden. He is murdered in the first chapter, having just left his fortune to his niece, Oliva, whom he has never met. Before he dies, he asks Kitson to find and watch over Oliva. (Introduction by Kirsten Wever)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Death of John Millinborn
16:29 - Chapter 2
The Drunken Mr. Beale
23:31 - Chapter 3
Punsonby's Discharge an Employee
24:43 - Chapter 4
The Letters That Were Not There
19:14 - Chapter 5
The Man With the Big Head
18:57 - Chapter 6
Mr. Scobbs of Red Horse Valley
19:47 - Chapter 7
Plain Words From Mr. Beale
20:20 - Chapter 8
The Crime of the Grand Alliance
18:10 - Chapter 9
A Crime Against the World
24:57 - Chapter 10
A Fruitless Search
19:15 - Chapter 11
The House near Staines
21:00 - Chapter 12
Introducing Parson Homo
17:53 - Chapter 13
At Deans Folly
18:26 - Chapter 14
Mr. Beale Suggests Marriage
16:40 - Chapter 15
The Good Herr Stardt
18:27 - Chapter 16
The Pawn Ticket
17:36 - Chapter 17
The Jew of Cracow
22:29 - Chapter 18
Bridgers Breaks Loose
19:13 - Chapter 19
Oliva is Willing
17:13 - Chapter 20
The Marriage
13:17 - Chapter 21
Beale Sees White
19:09 - Chapter 22
Hilda Glaum Leads The Way
16:29 - Chapter 23
At the Doctor's Flat
16:10 - Chapter 24
The Green Rust Factory
14:36 - Chapter 25
The Last Man at the Bench
13:57 - Chapter 26
The Secret of the Green Rust
18:40 - Chapter 27
A Scheme to Starve the World
16:00 - Chapter 28
The Coming of Dr. Milsom
18:20 - Chapter 29
The Lost Code
16:03 - Chapter 30
The Watch
15:26 - Chapter 31
A Cornchandler's Bill
08:58 - Chapter 32
The End of Van Heerden
28:56