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Great article!
The Four Just Men sounds pretty mental,
As I noted in the article, the first one is really groundbreaking for its day for its moral greyness and Sherlock- or Spooks-type storytelling, while the others really soften the concept by only making them go after objective baddies like THE RED HUNDREDS. (Which I guess is the ultimate prototype for the Commie-Nazi trope pre-Nazism, seeing as the name evokes the Black Hundreds but they're Communist).The Four Just Men is really excellent. It's incredibly shallow- it makes Rice Burroughs look like James Joyce- but it's a cracking read. You'll get through it one session.
It's always sobering to hear of creative Ozymandiases, leaving influence but little trace of their fiction outside of an old 1950s book in a charity shop swearing "Look upon my backlist and despair"