Sure, you can root for Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan or Hugh Drummond. But I'll take a good old-fashioned rogue over the lot of 'em any day. Boston Blackie, A. J. Raffles, the Lone Wolf, Thubway Tham, Mr. Clackworthy, Arsene Lupin -- they all hold a curious fascination, dabbling as they do in crime and punishment! So take a walk on the seamy side of the Victorian era. (And yes, we are cheating with the dates a little bit. But we wanted to include a few latter-day rogues whose adventures are in the spirit of their Victorian compatriots. ) All told, it's more than 1,900 pages of great reading!

Included are:

The Adventures of Colonel Clay, by Grant Allen

THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER

THE EPISODE OF THE DIAMOND LINKS

THE EPISODE OF THE OLD MASTER

THE EPISODE OF THE TYROLEAN CASTLE

THE EPISODE OF THE DRAWN GAME

THE EPISODE OF THE GERMAN PROFESSOR

THE EPISODE OF THE ARREST OF THE COLONEL

THE EPISODE OF THE SELDON GOLD-MINE

THE EPISODE OF THE JAPANNED DISPATCH-BOX

THE EPISODE OF THE GAME OF POKER

THE EPISODE OF THE BERTILLON METHOD

THE EPISODE OF THE OLD BAILEY

THE COUNT'S CHAUFFEUR, by William Le Queux

BOSTON BLACKIE, by Jack Boyle

THE CHAIR OF PHILANTHROMATHEMATICS, by O. Henry

THUBWAY THAM, by Johnston McCulley

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ARSÈNE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-BURGLAR, by Maurice Leblanc

THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance

ALIAS THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance

A ROGUE'S LIFE, by Wilkie Collins

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND SWAG, by Robert Barr

JEFF PETERS AS A PERSONAL MAGNET, by O. Henry

THE ASSASSINS' CLUB, by Gelett Burgess

MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH, by Christopher B. Booth

THE CLUE OF THE SILVER SPOONS, by Robert Barr

JEM BINNEY AND THE SAFE AT LOCKWOOD HALL, by William Hope Hodgson

A COSTUME PIECE, by E. W. Hornung

CONSTANCE DUNLAP, by Arthur B. Reeve

© 2014 Wildside Press (Ebook): 9781479404568

Publicatiedatum

Ebook: 24 november 2014