The Riddle of the Mysterious Light

In The Riddle of the Mysterious Light consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when he's intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious ne'er-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books. Cleek is a detective as remarkable as Sherlock Holmes. He has however the prime quality of always being in an apparently hopeless tangle of circumstances and he has also the genius of getting out. The Cleek stories were written by Thomas W. Hanshew until his death in 1914. His wife Mary E. Hanshew then took over this popular pulp mystery series.