The Ringer
by Edgar Wallace
The main character, Wallace's typical vigilant antihero, Henry Arthur Milton, aka The Ringer, is the legendary killer who kills for personal revenge. The main character is Inspector Wemburi from Scotland Yard, who is having a very bad day. This is his first day as the new commander of the Deptford Division; Chief Inspector Bliss returned from America full of ideas like Tommy's guns on the streets of London and the British FBI: his fiancée had found a new job as secretary for Maurice Meister, an outwardly respected but actually murderous criminal that Wemburi knew but could not prove. prison robbery. Wemburi's day is miserably completed when the news arrives that Ringer, who has been confirmed to have died in Australia, has returned to London and wants revenge on Maurice Meister, because Henry Milton left his only brother, a much younger sister, in Meister's ward as he left London, and after Milton was allegedly dead, his body was found swimming in the River Thames.
