VICTORIAN VILLANIES. includes The Great Tontine, the Rome Express, in the Fog, the Beetle

GREENE, HUGH. & GRAHAM. SELECTED & INTRO.includes SMART, HAWLEY; MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS; DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING; MARSH, RICHARD.

ISBN 10: 0140068503 / ISBN 13: 9780140068504

Published by Penquin Books, 1984

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VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD CLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET else quite nice, clean, solid. ; RED & white titles on mostly white paper covers showing B&W ILUST OF MAN in black following a horse drawn wagon.dark night. ; 713pg pages; "Early detective tales by contemoraries of Arthur Conan Doyle".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VICTORIAN VILLANIES. includes The Great Tontine, the Rome Express, in the Fog, the Beetle
• Publisher: Penquin Books
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140068503
• ISBN 13: 9780140068504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: PAPERBACK.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY.

The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller, The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle sheds fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian Age.

All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion — a rare treat!