Sunk Without Trace
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Copyright 1918
Adventure #3 in the collection . First published in Thomson's Weekly News 06/08/1918
The question before the Court was why two men with plenty of money should steal a pawned portfolio with several books in it, right after they had agreed to buy it. Major Haynes knows the men were really undercover German spies and he was curious why as well. He will learn of a secret new formula for a dangerous explosive is involved.