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The Blue Hand

by Edgar Wallaceliterary work

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<p>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, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time.</p> <p>Jim receives alarming news that his new love interest, Eunice, has accepted a new job as live-in secretary to Digby’s mother. Soon after, Eunice receives a message from a mysterious intruder that her life is in danger and that she should leave the Digby house.

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The Blue Hand was adapted into a 1967 film.

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    Creature with the Blue Hand
    1967 · film · 87 min · dir. Alfred Vohrer, Samuel M. Sherman · IMDb ↗
    IMDb6.0

    Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

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