Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories
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Author: Not known
Publisher: The Kiddies Own
Source book: Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham
The true identity of sinister master criminal Simister [what a silly name for a criminal- I can’t bring myself to take it at all seriously] has remained a mystery for a century. International man of mystery Albert Campion (real first name perhaps Rudolph, second name beginning with a K, maybe, and possibly related to Rudolph Rassendyll of Prisoner of Zenda fame) has come across the Simister organisation before.
In Mystery Mile, Campion somehow brings his client (America, Judge Crowdy Lobbett, who has been battling Simister’s henchmen for some years) to the safest house he knows of, which becomes the least safe place possible.
The Judge has evidence from an old Simister confederate which might give a clue to his real name. Unfortunately the clue is hidden in a very particular children’s book: Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories which is published under The Kiddies Own imprint.
Each book in The Kiddies Own series is bound in green, profusely decorated with designs in gold, with a coloured illustration of the story pasted on the front
Campion learns Simister’s identity from the book. In the end it isn’t that hard to work it out. And then he allows Simister to become the architect of his own destruction.
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