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  • The Red Cross Girl

    Series series Literary Classics
    Stories about American men making fools of themselves gallantly: a millionaire's son who joins the Red Cross to be near a nurse, a reporter, a soldier of fortune. Davis was the most famous American reporter of his age, covered six wars, and was the model Charles Dana Gibson drew for the Gibson Man; he wrote the chivalric American as he wished him to be, and knew perfectly well what he was doing. ... Read more

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  • The Scarlet Car

    Series series Mystery & Crime
    A young man with a new motor-car and a chauffeur takes a girl and her family across New York State, and the car is the plot: a broken axle, a snowstorm, a lost road, a criminal at a level crossing. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model Charles Dana Gibson drew for the Gibson Man; this 1907 book caught the automobile at the moment it was still an adventure in itself. ... Read more

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  • Vera, the Medium

    Series series Mystery & Crime
    Vera is a fraudulent medium, and knows it — and then, at a séance staged to swindle a rich woman out of an estate, she says something she could not have known. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model for the Gibson Man; he wrote this in 1908 out of the exposures of spiritualist fraud he had covered, and Vera's own doubt about herself is the sharpest thing in it. ... Read more

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  • The Princess Aline

    Series series Love & Society
    A young American painter falls in love with a photograph of a German princess and sets off across Europe to find her — Gibraltar, Cairo, Baden — with a friend who watches him do it. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model Charles Dana Gibson drew for the Gibson Man; this 1895 novella is the joke about romantic pursuit told by a man who could see the ending from the first page. ... Read more

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  • The King's Jackal

    Series series Adventure & the Sea
    A deposed king of a Mediterranean kingdom is running a restoration out of a villa in Tangier — selling shares in it to anyone who will buy, including a woman who loves him and a man who is keeping the accounts. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age and the model for the Gibson Man; this 1898 novella is his hardest look at professional patriots, and the jackal of the title is not the king. ... Read more

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  • The Lost House

    Series series Mystery & Crime
    An American reporter in London goes looking for a man who has vanished, and finds a house in a respectable square where somebody is being held — and cannot get anyone official to believe it. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age, covered six wars, and was the model for the Gibson Man; this 1913 novella moves like a filmed chase, which is what it became. ... Read more

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  • The Lion and the Unicorn

    Series series Literary Classics
    An American playwright in London, a girl he cannot have, a Cuban gun-runner and a young officer off to the war — four stories about people who behave better than they need to. Davis was the most famous reporter of his age, covered six wars, and was the model Charles Dana Gibson drew for the Gibson Man; the title story is his best, and the self-sacrifice in it is done with a shrug rather than a ... Read more

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  • Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

    According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent writer in her day, made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889 reporting on the ... Read more

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  • 50 Essential Classic Adventure Short Stories You Have To Read Before You Die, Vol.1: Jack London, Robert Ervin Howard, E.Nesbit, Max Brand... (Golden Deer Classics)

    Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers EDWARD S. ELLIS A Battle in the Air EDWARD S. ELLIS An Unpleasant Companion EDWARD S. ELLIS Lost ... Read more

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  • In The Fog

    A beautiful and decadent Russian princess with a scandalous past, a fog that engulfs everything, a murder, an explorer believed to have died in Africa returns to London... There's basically everything you need for a fun tale of mystery. The plot seems simple at first, but at the end there's a twist, and even after the conclusion the story spins once more. The first chapter's description of being ... Read more

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  • British Mystery Multipack

    The Paradise Mystery, In the Fog, The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story and The Maxwell Mystery

    Series Book 15 - British Mystery Multipack
    British Mystery Multipack Vol. 15 presents four brilliant mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction:The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis.The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story by Fergus Hume.The Maxwell Mystery by Carolyn Wells. ... Read more

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  • Richard Harding Davis: The Complete Works

    42 Complete Works of Richard Harding DavisA Charmed LifeA Question of LatitudeA Wasted DayAdventures and Letters of RHDBilly and the Big StickCaptain MacklinCinderellaCuba in War TimeEpisodes in Van Bibbers lifeIn the FogLion and the UnicornMiss CivilizationMy Buried TreasureNotes of a War CorrespondentOnce Upon A TimePeace ManoeuvresRanson's FollyReal Soldiers of ... ... Read more

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