The Green Rust
A Classic Tale of Fortune and Intrigue.

A story about a secret British heiress and a German doctors plan to wed her to gain half her wealth to fund his country's secret plans to be in control of the world's food supply. And an American detective who gets himself in a legal bind rescuing her while foiling the enemy's plans.......more

"The Green Rust" is a Radium-Age scifi thriller about bioterrorism by Edgar Wallace, who these days is better known as one of the creators of "King Kong." This is only the second novel of his I've read, and he has written over 170! Unfortunately, this was not as good as the first title I tried, whic......more

In Ian Fleming's 10th James Bond novel, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1963), 007 foils a plot by the Germanic supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use biological agents to destroy a goodly part of the world's farm crops. But as it turns out, this was not the first time that an English author ha......more

I like Edgar Wallace, I really do. But this book is awful. The main character behaves with such arrant foolishness that it is a miracle that she ever managed to walk out the door in the morning without tripping over. The supposed detective misses the most obvious clues and blunders around like an ut......more

I listened to a great audio recording from Librivox. The Green Rust kept me entertained while I weeded the garden and harvested vegetables. I enjoyed the adventures very much. I am compelled to listen to more audio books by this very prolific author. Thank you again Librivox and the iPod Shuffle for......more