The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale, AKA, the Grey Seal appeared in five books running from the early teens to the
mid-thirties. The stories did appear originally in the pulps but these reprints are taken from the
book reprint editions.
Jimmie Dale was like every pulp hero there ever was all rolled up in one - - only he came first!
Jimmie Dale was a playboy millionaire with a Park Avenue Mansion, an elderly butler who'd
known him since childhood, a chauffeur, a secret identity, a secret hideaway, is a master of
disguise, and has a second secret identity by which he has the trust and friendship of criminal
element of New York's notorious Badlands.
Only one person in all the work knows that Jimmie Dale is also the notorious safe-cracker, The
Grey Seal, whose calling card is a gummed diamond-shaped grey sticker (or seal). And that
person, the mysterious woman called the Tocsin is blackmailing Jimmie into doing acts of
kindness and nobility - - using his powers of safe-cracking to prevent further crimes!
Eleven short stories and a long novella make up the first of Jimmie Dale's adventures. 130 pages
now discounted to $5.00
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