The Impostor by Frank L Packard
Stacey Wallen, first mate of the bark Apolo, survives a yellow fever outbreak at sea and confronts Drink-House Sam in Singapore over a feud tied to his father’s death. A mysterious severed hand and a perilous voyage toward answers drive Wallen to expose a web of treachery and piracy.
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Stacey Wallen
Java Sea
Ting Wah
Wallen
Sam
Singapore
Helen MacKay
Monleigh
Laynton
Woallen
Ram Gulab Singh
Sumatra
Drink House Sam
Chilling midnight assault ends in fatal room scene
A robber named Wallen hides near Drink-House Sam's then climbs to Marle's veranda. He subdues the host, but discovers a bloody throat and a ghastly murder. A gaunt figure, revealed by a match, speaks the word Sahib as the scene closes with Gunga present.
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Drink-House
Sam's
Sam
Wallen
Drink House
Marle
Sahib
Gunga
Monleigh
Vendetta on the harbor voyage with Gunga and Wallen
Wallen flees through moonlit docks with Gunga as revelations mount. Gunga outlines a murder linked to Drink-House Sam and a Kanaka crewman, while clues about Ram Gulab Singh and a hidden hand draw Wallen toward truth before the ship's imminent sailing.
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Gunga
Wallen
Sahib
Allah
Sam
Drink-House Sam
Waller
Singapore
Ram Gulab Singh
Walt
Laynton
Ganga
Santh
Peace conference railes on Shantung and Fiume crisis in Europe
Edward W. Pickard reports on the Paris peace conference resolving the Adriatic dispute. Fiume becomes Italian under a free port plan, Dalmatian mainland ceded, Albania under Italian mandate. Bolshevik and Baltic struggles continue. Wilson defends the League covenant and Shantung restoration.
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Shantung
Edward W. Pickard
D’annunzio
Flame
Paris
Italy
America
Fiume
Zara
Dalmatian
Aviona
Albania
Epirus
Greece
Jugo-Slavia
D'Annunzio
Danzig
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