Room 13

With Room 13 in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr. J.

• G.
• Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives.
• Mr.
• J.
• G.
• Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective.
• In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard.

This time Edgar Wallaces unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a moderately wealthy gentleman who was set up for having supposedly cheated riding in a horse race and sent to Dartmoor, comes out seeking vengeance on the man who sent him there and finds himself aided in his quest by the seemingly innocuous J.G.

• Reeder.