In 1914 a character debuted who would forever change the face of popular fiction. Frank Packard's Gray Seal combined elements from A. J. Raffles, Arsène Lupin, and the Scarlet Pimpernel among others, but these traits were melded together into an entirely new concept: a gifted young man who hides his identity behind a mask so he can fight crime in the big city. It had never been done before and it's never stopped being done since.
Now with this edition the complete adventures of America's first superhero are back in print. Not only are the last two Gray Seal novels,
Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder
and
Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour
included here, there is additional Gray Seal material provided by the Packard family which has never appeared in print before.