The Secret of the Silver Car – Further Adventures of Anthony Trent, Master Criminal
By Wyndham Martyn
“Stop him,” the second officer yelled, “he’s going to jump overboard!”
The man who dashed past him and through a group of passengers waving hands at friends on the deck below was too quick for those who sought to stay with him. He momentarily balanced himself on the rail and then jumped ten feet to the pier.
The gangplanks had already been withdrawn, and the great liner bound for New York was too powerful a piece of momentum to pause now. Furthermore, her commander was going down the river on a favouring tide, and nothing short of a signal from the port authorities would have made him put back for a passenger who had chosen such a singular moment for a leap into the dark.
An hour or so later, the disappearance was discussed with enthusiasm in the smoking room. A collar manufacturer of Troy named Colliver was holding his group because he had been standing by the rail when the young man jumped and sought to restrain him.
“He was too quick for me,” Colliver declared. “I surely thought he’d hurt himself jumping ten feet down.”
“What did he do after he jumped?” a man demanded.
“He picked himself up and looked around as if he expected to see someone. The last I saw of him was going from group to group of people asking something I couldn’t hear.”
“Very mysterious,” another passenger commented. “I don’t believe he was crazy. I believe he jumped off just at the right moment—for him. I believe we shall find he took some loot with him. The purser is making an investigation now.”
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Wyndham Martyn
Martyn, William (pen name William Grenvil); mining engineer; b. London, Eng. July 1875; son of Richard Wyndham and Clarice (Camplyn) Martyn; educ. Oxford, London, and Brussels School of Mines and London College of Assaying. Degrees: M.A., M.E.; married Amy Elizabeth Stanley, June 1901.
Biography.
Contributor to Cosmopolitan, Red Book, Hearst’s International, Liberty, Munsey’s, Everybody’s. Editor of New Yorker (1906).
Novels
- The Man Outside, illus. C. M. Relyea (serial as ‘John Paget’s Progress’). New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1910.
- All the World to Nothing, illus. H. H. Leonard. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1912; London, Sampson Low, 191
- Under Cover by Roi Cooper Megrue, novelized by Wyndham Martyn, illus. William Kirkpatrick. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1914; London, Jarrolds, 1917.
- Anthony Trent, Master Criminal (Trent). New York, Moffatt, Yard & Co., 1918; London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922 [1921]; abridged, Dublin, Mellifont Press, 1942.
- The Secret of the Silver Car (Trent). New York, Moffatt, Yard & Co., 1920; London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922.
- The Mysterious Mr. Garland (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1923 [1922].
- The Return of Anthony Trent (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1923; New York & Newark, N.J.. Barse & Hopkins, c.1925.
- The Bathurst Complex. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1924; as The Murder in Beacon Street, New York, R. M. McBride & Co., 1930.
- The Recluse of Fifth Avenue. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1925; New York, R. M. McBride & Co., 1929.
- Trent of the Lone Hand (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927.
- Anthony Trent: Avenger (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1928.
- The Triumphant Prodigal. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1928.
- The Death Fear (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1929; New York, R. M. McBride & Co., 1929.
- Murder Island (Trent). New York, R. M. McBride & Co., 1928; London, Herbert Jenkins, 1929.
- The Social Storming. London, Herbert Jenkins, 1930.
- The Trent Trail (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1930; New York, R. M. McBride & Co., 1930.
- The Scarlett Murder (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1931.
- Christopher Bond, Adventurer (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1933.
- The Great Ling Plot (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1933.
- Death by the Lake (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1934.
- The Spies of Peace (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1934.
- Criminals All (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
- Nightmare Castle (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
- The Denmede Mystery (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936.
- The House of Secrets (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936.
- The Blue Ridge Crime (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
- The Old Manor Crime (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
- The Marrowby Myth (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1938.
- Murder Walks the Deck (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1938.
- Noonday Devils (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
- Trent Fights Again (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
- Capture (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1940.
- The Ghost City Killings (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1940.
- The Headland House Affair (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1941.
- Shadow Agent (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1941.
- Men Without Faces (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1943.
- Cairo Crisis (Bond). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1945.
- The Last Scourge (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1946.
- Stones of Enchantment (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1948.
- Manhunt in Murder (Trent). London, Herbert Jenkins, 1950; New York, Roy Publishers, 1958.
- The Chromium Cat (Bond). London, Jenkins, 1952.
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