The Just Men of Cordova

The Just Men of Cordova
1930 edition
AuthorEdgar Wallace
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherWard Lock
Publication date
1917
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe Council of Justice 
Followed byThe Law of the Four Just Men 

The Just Men of Cordova is a 1917 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.[1]

It is the third entry in a series that began with The Four Just Men in 1905 about a group of vigilantes battling against crime. The collection includes the completed version of “The Poisoners” a story first printed in the May 1912 issue of The Novel Magazine without an ending, but with a prize offered to the first reader who submitted the correct ending.

Synopsis

The three friends, Poiccart, Manfred and Gonsalez, are enjoying the exotic, Spanish city of Cordova with its heat and Moorish influences, but they are still committed to employing their intellect and cunning to dispense justice.

References

  1. ^ Neuburg p.195

Further reading

  • Victor E. Neuburg. The Batsford Companion to Popular Literature. Batsford Academic and Educational, 1982.