The reader had to go through the evidence to solve the mystery before unsealing the last pages of the file, which gave the answer. In the thirties, he conceived a series of whodunit mysteries, presented as case files, with testimonies, letters, pieces of evidence such as hairs or pills. His plots covered the French Revolution (Roger Brook Series), Satanism (Duc de Richleau), World War II (Gregory Sallust) and espionage (Julian Day). He wrote adventure stories, with many books in a series of linked works. His first book, Three Inquisitive People, was not immediately published but his first published novel, The Forbidden Territory, was an immediate success when published in 1933, being reprinted seven times in seven weeks. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors in the 1950s and 1960s. Rex's friends have suspicions about the ex-SS Gruppenführer with whom he is said to have been consorting they find themselves pursuing Rex to the Bolivian Andes and confronting Satanist forces once again.ĭennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author. Rex van Ryn steals more than a million dollars from his family bank and vanishes in Buenos Aires. Gateway to Hell sees the return of characters from The Devil Rides Out. On one of these trips home, an occult writer named John Verney realizes that the group are Satanists and are preparing Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth on her 18th birthday. She is allowed to come home once a year on her birthday. To the Devil a Daughter tells the story of a group of practicing Satanists who disguise themselves as "The Children of the Lord." Catherine-a nun-is one of this group. The group's leader comes after them, and there is a desperate struggle to defeat the Angel of Death and escape the cult leader, Mocata. Rex falls for a woman named Tanith and takes her away from the cult. The Devil Rides Out: In 1930s London, Duc de Richleau and Rex van Ryn rescue their friend Simon Aron from a devil-worshipping cult.
An omnibus of three stylish occult tales, by the author known as the Prince of the Thriller Writers
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