The story proved popular and he continued to write Blake tales throughout the 1920s, adding unique characters to the saga including Claire Delisle, The Raven, Dr. Queed, and Vedax the Dwarf.
With Alfred Edgar, and under the name of 'Howard Steele', he resurrected Panther Grayle, a detective created by Jack Lancaster for the Empire Library in 1910.
Here is one who, though dead, yet breaks the silence and in his post-mortem autobiography guides his daughter in her quest for the identity of his murderer."
Urbane and cynical, the seemingly detached spectator of all that goes on in Overton Lodge, he describes each incident leading up to the exciting climax.
If you are a hardened crime-story fan, you may feel, as you follow the twists and turns of the story, that you are at least one jump ahead of the author.