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DETECTIVE
FICTION WEEKLY
Volume XXXIV
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928
Number 1

"Who are you?" said Gibbs.

THE CRIME CREW

A Mad Lust for Gold Leads to Startling

Ends in the Grim Mutiny of the Albatross

By Wyndham Martyn

CHAPTER I

Mr. Unwin Makes a Call

THE financier, sitting alone in his remote and splendid library, was engaged in the task of marshalling his forces, estimating his losses and wondering if it would be necessary to call in reënforcements for this battle to the death with Radway.

He looked up with a scowl at the apologetic secretary who came softly in. Gibbons's secretaries were always apologetic and rarely lasted six months. It was the Gibbons way to terrorize, to override, to make the inferior damn-