Boothby, Guy

Egyik méltatója, John Clute, így ír Boothby Nikola könyveiről: A doktor tekervényes kutatásai a tibeti szertartások után (mely kutatásokat nem gátolja a lelkiismeret-furdalás, ám pszichológiai hatalommal és kísérletező tehetséggel egyaránt el vannak látva), melyek...

There is an old saying that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," but how true this is very few of us really understand...

A selection of eight sensational crime stories, featuring the gentleman's rogue Simon Carne...

Excerpt: ...that I should not in any way associate him with the plot. The following day was spent for the greater part in making further inquiries in Hatton Garden, and among the various Dutch merchants then in London. The story the senior partner of Messrs. Jacob and Bulenthall had told me had...

Guy Boothbys first novel of five about the notorious Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination.

Night was falling, and Naples Harbour, always picturesque, appeared even more so than usual in the warm light of the departing day. The city itself, climbing up the hillside, almost from the water's edge, was coloured a pale pink by the sunset, and even old Vesuvius, from whose top a thin column of...

Australian-born author Guy Newell Boothby broke onto the literary scene with a series of bestselling action-adventure novels, but The Mystery of the Clasped Hands finds Boothby trying his hand at classic detective fiction.

A prolific Australian novelist, Guy Boothby was noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. His most famous creation is Dr. Nikola, an occultist criminal mastermind, who serves as a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu. This comprehensive eBook presents...