Dangerous Men

by Gordon Young, Will Crawford (Illustrator), "Doc" Clancy (Foreword)

Don Everhard is a gambler, adventurer, sharpshooter—a man who has never cheated anyone who didn’t deserve it and never troubled the police with anything he could handle himself. A chance encounter has put him back in the presence of the one woman who ever had any power over him, in the aid of a weak man with a dark secret that may cost them all their lives.

The CAVEMAN ADVENTURE LIBRARY is proud to present this important pre-noir thriller in its first US printing since its publication over 100 years ago!

Kindle Edition

Published April 12, 2022

Reviews

[L J Field · Rating 4 out of 5]

This novel was first published back in 1917 in Adventure Magazine. At the time, mysteries and thrillers adhered to the rather quaint Victorian formulas. This is a precursor to the later books by Carroll John Daly described as hard-boiled, which in themselves were the beginning of the noir movement. Dangerous Men is quite good and an early modern thriller.

The lead character, Don Everhard, decides to help Melville Summers from a jam he’d gotten himself into. Summers’ wife has just come into a fortune of millions of dollars through the death of her uncle. Some gangsters want her dead so that Summers becomes the inheritor. They then tell him that he will have to divide the estate with them, as they have a great deal of information of Summers’ past felonious actions.

Summers finds that he truly loves his wife and escapes the thugs in a yacht. In this way he has been able to keep away from the gang by anchoring at diverse ports. But they have caught up with him….