Blue Hand vs Room 13: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Blue Hand Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 ★★★★☆ 3.9 248 pages · ≈ 4 h 36 m · Challenging

Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir,…

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Cover of Room 13 Room 13 Edgar Wallace · 1920 ★★★★☆ 3.5 184 pages · ≈ 3 h 24 m · Challenging

After having spent almost three years in prison Johnny Gray is released, only to be dismayed to find that his ladylove has been pressured by her father, an old friend of his, into marrying another man. Soon after,…

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Goodreads — 3.5 (398)
Apple Books 4.0 (11) —

Reception

Blue HandRoom 13
Ratings 11 398
Editions 67 171
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read — 292
Reading it now — 31
Written reviews — 33
Wikipedia attention 40 109
Pages 248 184

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