Four square Jane
By Edgar Wallace
Cover: London Bridge Stairs (1903), etching by Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1926)
Edgar Wallace's Four Square Jane, 1929, follows a masked thief who steals from the dishonest and sends the loot to the poor. Police and press chase her through London. Light, quick and full of Wallace's favourite devices. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.