''The Council of Justice'' is a 1908

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Su ...

by the British writer

Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during th ...

.Freedman p.55 It is a sequel to the 1905 novel '' The Four Just Men'', and continues the adventures of the heroes of that work. It was followed by four further sequels.

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* Jonathan Freedman. ''The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America''. Oxford University Press, 2002. 1908 British novels Novels by Edgar Wallace British thriller novels {{1900s-crime-novel-stub