Thanks to Paul R. Spiring and Brian W. Pugh, we know much more about Bertram Fletcher Robinson than we did a few years ago. At his death in 1907 he left a set of notes, which, as he requested, were developed by Max Pemberton into a novel, published in 1908. Now 'Wheels of Anarchy: The Story of an Assassin', edited by Hugh Cooke and Paul Spiring, has been reprinted in facsimile by MX Publishing Ltd., (London). Robinson or Pemberton may have discussed the story with their friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but the narrator, Bruce Ingersoll, is no Sherlock Holmes. Like the heroes of those other unputdownable Edwardian thrillers 'The Riddle of the Sands' and 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', he's an ordinary, decent, educated man with an adventurous streak. The peril he faces is extraordinary and strikingly modern - international terrorism. It's a gripping tale, grippingly told.