His Unknown Wife

A man condemned to die is offered a bride minutes before the firing squad. Philip Maseden sits in a South American prison cell, awaiting execution, when a financier appears with an impossible proposition: an American woman, veiled and unnamed, wishes to marry him before he faces the wall. He has nothing left to lose, and everything to discover. Why would any woman marry a dead man walking? What does she stand to gain, and who is she really? Louis Tracy builds this unusual romance with sharp, defiant prose. Maseden agrees to the ceremony not from desperation but from sheer curiosity and nerve. He wants to know who orchestrated this bizarre rescue and what lies behind the mystery. As political chaos erupts around the prison walls, he must untangle the web of motives surrounding his unknown wife before time runs out. Early 20th-century adventure fiction at its pulp-era best: romance tinged with intrigue, humor cutting through danger, and a premise daring enough to feel genuinely fresh over a century later.