Prince of the Red Looters — Grant Stockbridge

The strains of Pagliacci had barely died away, when above the glittering Diamond Horseshoe of the Metropolitan Opera House there shrilled the panicked cry of a multitude in mortal terror. Death swooped upon the horrified audience. Despite the warning of the Spider, the police had been helpless to cope with the fiendish cunning of the Fly, arch-criminal and gentleman killer! Go with Richard Wentworth as he battles this deadly crime organization which succeeds finally in having Commissioner Kirkpatrick removed from office and the Spider himself falsely identified as the Fly!