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Author: Guy Boothby Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds by Guy Boothby is about the mystifying cases of great English detective Klimo. Excerpt: "TO the reflective mind the rapidity with which the inhabitants of the world's greatest city seize upon a new name or idea and familiarise themselves with it, can scarcely prove otherwise than astonishing. As an illustration of my meaning let me take the case of Klimo—the now famous private detective, who has won for himself the right to be considered as great as Lecocq, or even the late lamented Sherlock Holmes."
Author: Guy Boothby Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 44
Book Description
The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds by Guy Boothby is about the mystifying cases of great English detective Klimo. Excerpt: "TO the reflective mind the rapidity with which the inhabitants of the world's greatest city seize upon a new name or idea and familiarise themselves with it, can scarcely prove otherwise than astonishing. As an illustration of my meaning let me take the case of Klimo—the now famous private detective, who has won for himself the right to be considered as great as Lecocq, or even the late lamented Sherlock Holmes."
Author: David Stuart Davies Publisher: Wordsworth Editions ISBN: 9781853267444 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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A collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog.
Author: G. K. Chesterton Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486838617 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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New compilation of Victorian-era stories introduces slightly lesser-known investigators with tales by Baroness Orczy, G. K. Chesterton, Catherine L. Pirkis, Hugh C. Weir, Jacques Futrelle, Maurice Leblanc, others.
Author: Michael Sims Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101029129 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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An exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.
Author: Otto Penzler Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN: 0593315804 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1439
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Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL
Author: Guy Boothby Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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A Prince of Swindlers is the story of one intelligent, fearless, and clever scoundrel who keeps an entire city in terror. He is an ingenious thief and a master of disguise who has conned all of London. The thief executes a series of plans that involve him stealing a diamond necklace, arranging the theft of a horse, stealing some wedding gifts, misleading the profits of a charity campaign, and swimming off with a visiting royal's most refined gold plate. He uses several schemes to fool the English upper class and comes away with millions. It's a story of how an unexpected encounter between a conman and a British diplomat led to a series of adventures. It's interesting and fun to read how he plans out his complex plans and always manages to execute them. The gentleman thief is a fascinating character who often recaps his plans to the reader in dialogue. This gave him a humorous villain quality that adds to the story's charm. Much of the humor depicts his personality wonderfully. It's a mind-blowing story that will meet any reader's need for thrills.
Author: LeRoy Lad Panek Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476618100 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 225
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The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Holmes and the advent of the Golden Age of the detective story during World War I. Both British and American detective writers of the period are surveyed--as well as writers who turned to gentleman burglars and master criminals.
Author: Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0718199820 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 31
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A very special Ladybird souvenir e-book to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen's 60-year reign has seen many changes but her reputation as the world's most famous and beloved monarch continues to this day. Read about her early childhood, coronation, family life, and the way she has shaped the modern monarchy over the last sixty years. There are also fascinating facts about the number of Prime Ministers and leaders she's known, all the countries visited, her official portraits and more!
Author: C. Clarke Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230390544 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
Author: Guy Boothby
Author: Guy Boothby
Author: Guy Boothby
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Author: G. K. Chesterton
Author: Michael Sims
Author: Otto Penzler
Author: Guy Boothby
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Author: C. Clarke