The Three Just Men
1925
When the law fails, three men take justice into their own hands. In the sun-baked streets of Cordova, the infamous Three Just Men, Pioccart, Manfred, and Gonsalez, watch, wait, and strike against criminals who have escaped legal consequence. They are intelligent, methodical, and utterly ruthless, dispensing death to those who deserve it in the eyes of no court but their own. Into their dangerous world stumbles Mirabelle Leicester, a young woman seeking her fortune in London who finds herself employed by the enigmatic Dr. Oberzohn, unwittingly threading her life into the vigilantes' deadly web. A mysterious snake terrorizes the city, deaths pile up, and the line between righteous vengeance and cold murder blanks entirely. Wallace crafts a bracing early thriller that asks whether extrajudicial justice can ever truly be just, and what price ordinary people pay when they stumble into the shadows of men who play god with a pistol.
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