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A Crime of the Underseas by Guy Boothby, Juvenile Fiction, Action & Adventure
Contributor(s): Boothby, Guy (Author)
ISBN: 146389502X     ISBN-13: 9781463895020
Publisher: Aegypan
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies
- Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - General
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 176 pages
 
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This collection is named for Guy Boothby's "A Crime of the Underseas"; but there are other tales in this book as well -- "The Phantom Stockman," "The Treasure of Sacramento Nick," "Into the Outer Darkness" and "The Story of Tommy Dodd and 'The Rooster'."

"Callingway was tracking an absconding Argentine Bank Manager, and, as it afterwards transpired, was, when we came in contact with him, on the point of getting possession of the money with which the other had left the country. Needless to say he was not a Government servant, nor were the Banking Company in question aware of his endeavors. Lastly there was myself, Christopher Collon, aged thirty-six, whose walk in life was even stranger, if such a thing were possible, than those of the two men I have just described. Had I been the possessor of a smart London office, a private secretary, and half a dozen corresponding clerks, I should probably have called myself a private detective . . ."


Contributor Bio(s): Boothby, Guy: - "Guy Newell Boothby (1867 - 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell."