Captain North Adventure Books
Fifty years after the disappearance of a young boy ended in a closed case, a series of murders prompts London Solicitor Rosa Epton to reopen the case. By the author of A Dangerous Business.
Gang-war, vengeance, ruthless murder, with their roots reaching deep into the city's life, surround Judge Mackaye...with only Captain North of the Army Intelligence standing between him and death. Van Wyck Mason's third novel, and his second featuring Hugh North.
In the bay of Cienfuegos, a little Cuban town, the naked body of a D.C.I. officer was found floating one night. And the next, Captain North of the Army Intelligence was on his way there -- with orders to find the facts. The wolves of the naval powers were already gathering at Cienfuegos around a cashiered American naval officer who had developed a new and mysterious invention. And beside the agents were the great international criminals always drawn by such an affair. The first intimation of the sinister undercurrents North was facing came on the night train in Cuba -- when a drab-looking German was murdered almost before his eyes, with a glass dagger thrust into the heart. At Cienfuegos the real battle began, with danger lurking in the surrounding jungle, and within the house death striking with silent arrows -- so much quieter than automatics, so much easier to use from a distance than knives...
The Crime Club, 1932. 301 pages. Description; black boards with orange knocked out titles to front and spine, top edge stained orange.
This is a hard cover edition.
COPYRIGHT 1935 BY VAN WYCK MASON. SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR, CHAFING, SOME CREASING AND SMALL RIPS ON COVERS. INSIDE COVERS & PAGES HEAVILY TANNED AND THERE MAY BE AN OCCASIONAL RIP OR TEAR.
From an Amazon Captain Hugh North of the G-2 division of military intelligence is in Washington, D.C. working on counterintelligence matters. A recent wave of spying has resulted in the loss of American tank designs and other valuable military secrets to several foreign powers. Much of the spying has been attributed to a mastermind called simply the Guardsman because his real name is unknown to his adversaries. North and his ally, Major Bruce Kilgour of British Army Intelligence, must put a stop to the Guardsman before more military secrets are stolen. This story was written after Adolph Hitler rose to power and Germany, Japan and even Russia had all become likely enemies in any future war.
Van Wyck Mason. The Hongkong Airbase Murders. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1937]. Madison Square edition. Octavo. 339 pages.
A captain in Army Intelligence follows a course of dangerous counter-espionage and intrigue in pursuit of a secret formula. Pocket Book 129, 1941.
Hugh North must find stop a coup in Brazil, scheduled during Carnaval, and with no clues. Lots of intrigue, a poisoning, and plenty of excitement.
Saigon Singer by F. Van Wyck Mason in Hardcover.
He came to the high Himalayas on his most important mission, keep the communists out of India. Co;onel Hugh North on assignment from G-2.
Two Tickets for Tangier - A Colonel North Story "Captain Hugh North, created during 1930, began with stories that had a fairly traditional mystery format. Later, these stories included more political intrigue until the later stories were mainly spy fiction." from Wikipedia
Colonel Hugh North was headed for the most perilous mission to which G-2 had ever assigned him. His job was to stop a multimillion-dollar deal that could shatter the security of the United States. But those involved in the deal, three luscious women and five unscupulous men, weren't going to let that kind of money slip through their fingers—even if it meant more than one murder.
Secret Mission to Bangkok follows Hugh North, a U.S. Army Intelligence officer, as he navigates the dangerous world of post-World War II espionage. The story is set against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue in Thailand, with North investigating a deadly conspiracy involving spies, secret documents, and political maneuvering.
