<p><strong>The dead man was named Snow Gregory for he was a doper . . . </strong>and some said he might have been proving a little awkward to Colonel Dan Boundary his associate -- who might have felt a bit relieved to hear of Gregory's icy demise . . . except for the arrival of an envelope addressed to the Colonel containing only a playing card the Knave of Clubs -- with a handwritten scrawl on one side: Jack O' Judgment!</p><p>Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a popular English writer of novels and plays his bestsellers including <em>Sanders of the River.</em></p>