Room 13 by Edgar Wallace

This one was boring. In theory the story should have been more adventurous then the other books of his I've read, but it was slow and boring, and the characters were too.
The story: Until something like 14 years ago Peter Kane was a thief, and he worked with Emmanuel Legge. When Emmanuel, stupid and drunk, was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison he blamed Peter for it, sure that he had told the police about him to keep all the money. Johnnie Gray is a young man, an innocent one sent to prison by Jeffrey Legge, Emmanuel's son. Johnnie is in love with Marney, Peter's daughter. Jeffrey is the head of a big business of counterfeit money, and Emmanuel, now free, wants to take revenge on Peter. Nobody knows Jeffrey's face, so they plot to have Jeffrey married to Marney, and they succeed. Johnnie recognizes Jeffrey when he sees him, and takes his precautions to help Marney. Jeff and his father don't give up. They want revenge on Peter, but now they also hate Johnnie and Marnie. Peter never told on anybody, but Emmanuel himself does it from time to time, like when he sets a man named Fenner up and have him arrested .
When Peter learned the truth , that he had married his precious daughter to Jeffrey, he was furious and planned things to have Emmanuel kill his own son, believing he was killing Johnnie. Indeed Emmanuel shoots him, but Jeff survives never knowing that detail. The two of them now plan to have Peter and Johnnie arrested for Jeffrey's crime, and they drug them, and Jeff abducts Marney too. Peter escapes, and is helped by Reeder, a sort of detective. At the end, Emmanuel is killed by Stevens, Fenner's brother (both fake names), and Johnnie saves Marnie, and Mr Reeder stops Jeffrey, and Peter tells Johnnie he'll marry Marnie with his blessings, and Reeder reveals his name is actually Golden, and the head of that investigation is John Gray Reeder. Surprise: Johnnie is a policeman. I had not thought of this, but now it is explained why he was so much believed , a few things like that, and also his butler, so respectable and loyal, he didn't seem the kind of butler who'd work for a criminal (you might say: maybe he didn't know: well, he certainly knew all about the time in prison and when he brought guns with him.).
 Still, I can't really explain why in details, just that I found it very boring, maybe it was mostly because there were no characters that really appealed to me. My favs were Reeder/Golden and Parker the butler. Two little roles, I'm afraid.