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  • Frederick John Niven, Collection

    by Frederick John Niven ...
    Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile—died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), was a regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels—The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)—form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west ... Read more

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  • Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    Series Book 1 - A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief
    The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaireSometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former classmate who ... Read more

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  • The 39 Steps

    by John Buchan ...
    Series series Classic Sensation
    Europe is close to war and spies are everywhere. Richard Hannay the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia, in order to begin a new life. One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his life. The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, ... Read more

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  • Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    Series Book 2 - A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief
    Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fictionSince his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles's side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he answers an ad seeking a ... Read more

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  • Raffles the Gentleman Thief - Trilogy

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    Raffles, the gentleman thief, was created by E. W. Hornung, who was brother-in-law to the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. In many ways, Raffles is an inversion of Holmes, he has his own Watson in the form of Harry "Bunny" Manders, and he is a master of disguise.This compilation contains three Raffles stories:• The Amateur Cracksman• Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman• A ... Read more

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  • The Gypsy's Parson: His Experiences and Adventures

    by George Hall ...
    A TANGLE of sequestered streets lying around a triple-towered cathedral; red roofs and gables massed under the ramparts of an ancient castle; a grey Roman arch lit up every spring-time by the wallflower’s mimic gold; an old-world Bailgate over whose tavern yards drifted the sleepy music of the minster chimes; a crooked by-lane leading down to a wide common loved by the winds of heaven—these were ... Read more

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  • Robert James Campbell Stead, Collection

    by Robert James Campbell Stead ...
    Robert James Campbell Stead (4 September 1880 - 1959) was born at Middleville, Ontario. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other Poems was published in 1908 and for the next 23 years, until 1931, he continued a steady flow of novels, short stories and books of verse, which enriched the portraiture of Canadian prairie life. As described by Terrence Craig, "In his early poetry, such as The ... Read more

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  • A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume

    The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask - Raffles: Further Adventures, A Thief in the Night & Mr. Justice Raffles

    by E. W. Hornung ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old ... Read more

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  • Frontier Boys in Frisco

    by Roosevelt, Wyn ...
    Popular children's book, from the Frontier Boys series, published around 1900. ... Read more

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  • Northern Lights, all five volumes

    by Gilbert Parker ...
    Classic short story collection. All five volumes. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and ... Read more

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  • Sporting Facts and Fancies

    by J. P. Wheeldon ...
    This vintage book contains a collection of anecdotes and accounts related to various sporting experiences. Wonderfully written and both interesting and entertaining, "Sporting Facts and Fancies" will appeal to modern sporting enthusiasts and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Contents include: "Miss Burton of Craigmuir", "The Hope of His House", "At Charlton Manor ... Read more

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  • Raffles Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman

    by Hornung E. W. ...
    A collection of stories about crime that involves sophistication wit and genius. In this amazing anthology Hornung introduces Raffles as protagonist. A cricketer by profession he is a skilled thief who specializes in stealing jewels yet apparently lives a respectable life. It is intriguing to see how Hornung shows that there is honour among thieves and even they live by some rules. Mind-blowing! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD