Curse of the Crimson Horde — Brant House

Across six thousand miles and spanning two continents an unseen hand moved living pawns over a chessboard of death. The stake was the life blood of a nation, the symbol — the Red Maggot — a fire to unholy ambition, the possession of which bound a man's soul to the Devil.And Secret Agent X — man of a thousand faces and conqueror of kings of crime — found himself parried by the ageless weapons and black magic of the Far East.Curse of the Crimson Horde (1938) by Joseph Chadwick writing as Brant HouseA Complete Book-Length Novel Based on the Records of Secret Agent XChapter I – Death on Fifth AvenueChapter II – The Girl in the RoadChapter III – Forty Fathom FightChapter IV – Death Strikes in Mid-OceanChapter V – Pall of Green DeathChapter VI – The Pearl KingsChapter VII – Sting of DoomChapter VIII – The Man Without A FaceChapter IX – The Cobra DeathChapter X – Message From the DeadChapter XI – Secret of Lost IslandChapter XII – Prisoners of Lost IslandSecret Agent X is a master of disguise and his true identity is never revealed. He adopts several different identities in each story. What we do know about X is that he served in the War (World War I) in intelligence and was wounded from which he got an X shaped scar. He is a dedicated crime-fighter working undercover for the U.S. government, although this is unknown to local police who consider him an outlaw. His true role is known only to newspaper reporter Betty Dale and his mysterious Washington controller, K-9.Curse of the Crimson Horde was published in the September, 1938 issue of Secret Agent X.Curse of the Crimson Horde has 14 illustrations.