The Green Rust

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Orpen, George Frederic Watts and Edvard Munch. A chemist has bred a rust that will destroy the world's wheat, a girl stands to inherit a fortune if she marries before a deadline, and an American detective has ten days. Wallace was illegitimate, raised by a Billingsgate fish porter and out of school at twelve; he wrote fast enough that at...