The Amazing Judgment / Mr. Laxworthy's Adventures

THE AMAZING JUDGMENTThe world-weary Lord Hildyard Marquis of Esholt is on a yachting tour with a group of friends including his kept lover Pauline Owston. When Hildyard spies an apparently uninhabited island he slips off the ship in search of adventure. What he finds is the exotic woman-child Bertha and her guardian Stanley Owston estranged husband of Pauline. Before the yachting party returns Hildyard discovers himself in love with Bertha and vows to return for her. But when the Owstons are dramatically reunited Stanley confesses to his wife that Bertha is the daughter whom she has not seen in twelve years. Will Hildyard ever find the love he seeks or is his love for Bertha now doomed beyond hope?MR. LAXWORTHYS ADVENTURESFor Mr. John T. Laxworthy detection is a serious game and all of Europe is his playground. In a series of 12 adventures Laxworthy travels with a well-padded wallet and two sporting companions following only his instincts and the scent of money to be made. Along the way he nabs an international burglar exposes a cross-dressing murderer foils a plot to steal battleship plans and even helps a respected criminal opponent recover 40000 pounds owed him by an unscrupulous London banker. Laxworthy is an amateur sleuth and an adventurer: urbane clever and oh-so-British. Youll cheer him on as he always gets his man - and in the end even his woman.