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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 250 · 4/2/1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d THE GHOST OF STRANDGAP PRIORY AND HOW SEXTON BLAKE LAID IT by William Shaw Rae · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Dan Darrel by Henry T. Johnson Notes: Story features We-wee. This was reprinted in PENNY POPULAR issue 66 as THE HAUNTED PRIORY (1914). Unrated |
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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 261 · 22/4/1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d THE LANCER LAD by William Shaw Rae · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Dan Darrel by Henry T. Johnson Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 283 · 23/9/1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d SHADOWED BY SEXTON BLAKE; OR, TOM DANTON'S DISAPPEARANCE by Christopher Stevens (Julian Rochfort) · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Dick Valling's Adventure by H. S. Warwick. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 285 · 7/10/1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d THE HERMIT OF TEXAS; OR, SEXTON BLAKE'S LONG CHASE by Campbell Brown (G. W. Brown) · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: From the Quarterdeck (ed.); Dick Valling's Adventures by H. S. Warwick. Notes: Story features We-wee. Unrated |
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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 289 · 4/11/1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d THE SECRET HAND by William Shaw Rae · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Dick Valling's Adventures by H. S. Warwick; From the Quarterdeck (ed.) Notes: Sexton Blake is in Leeds to keep an appointment with a moneylender named Moses Leech. In the office, he meets Charley Everton (who he first met when Everton was a boy in BRAVO BLAKE!, UNION JACK 1st series issue 138, 1896). The young lad, now in the army, has been maneouvred into a hefty debt with exorbitant interest. Even worse, he has forged his brother Harry's signature as guaranteur. Blake promises to help him, then goes on into Leech's office for the appointment. The moneylender wants him to act as courier, bringing a twenty-thousand pound diamond necklace up from London. Blake accepts the commission on the grounds that it might help him to investigate Leech. He travels back to London and sends We-wee to Leeds to keep an eye on Leech. After picking up the necklace, Blake is attacked by a gang of thieves and held prisoner on Canvey Island off the Essex coast. He manages to escape from most of the gang in a small boat but not from the leader who jumps aboard just as the craft drifts away. Taken by the tide out to sea, the pair spend a perilous night together before being rescued by a steamer. In Leeds, We-wee, after spending time studying Leech, befriends his alcoholic clerk and manages to get the man to reproduce the bill recently served to Charley Everton. Later, the Chinese lad makes an exact copy of this reproduction with one exception: he makes it for £150 rather than £500. He then has Everton sign the bill. Next, he disguises himself as Leech, tricks the clerk into opening the moneylender's safe, and swaps the real bill for the forgery. The next day, Blake arrives in Leeds and, with Everton, confronts Leech and demands the bill. When it is handed over, Everton pays it in full, much to the astonishment of Leech who receives a fraction of what he'd expected. Blake then delivers the necklace, which, as he had always suspected, is a fraud. He exposes Leech's attempt to cheat the insurers and the villain is arrested. Rating: 
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UNION JACK · 1st series · Issue 292 · Dec. 1899 · Amalgamated Press · ½d VAL HILTON'S VOW by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: The Phantom Cruiser by Alec G. Pearson; Dick Valling's Adventures by H. S. Warwick; The Weird Story of Dead Man's Pool by Anon.; The Palace of Death by S. Clarke Hook; For Britain and the Right by Anon.; From the Quarterdeck (ed.); Dick Denton's Double by Anon. Notes: Sexton Blake makes only a fleeting appearance, not arriving until the final chapter of this story. Unrated |
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