Aidan de Brune has been described as the Edgar Wallace of Australia. De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia.
His latest novel, The Shadow Crook, certainly justifies the claim. It is an amazing story of a master criminal who terrorized Sydney, taunted the police, and baffled the finger-print experts.
The Shadow Crook raided the detective offices in Sydney, bound and gagged the fingerprint expert, and ransacked his records.