Boothby Guy: 60 books

This fourth novel of Boothby's Dr. Nikola series reveals that Nikola has discovered all of the facts necessary to extend a human being's life. He has studied science and magic secrets of Tibetan monks. He explains: "It has been a long and tedious search, but such labour only makes success the...

This is the last of Boothby's Dr. Nikola novels, set in Venice, Italy. Nikola tells the story of his sad life, demonstrates his mystic ability to enable people to experience themselves in another place and time, transforms a man into being a beast, and departs from his palace in Venice which has a bloody history, but he remains in the minds of those who met him.

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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 proved...

A mummy's revenge novel from the turn of the 19th century. (Goodreads)

Of course nine out of every ten intelligent persons will refuse to believe that there could be a grain of truth in the story I am now going to tell you. The tenth may have some small faith in my veracity, but what I think of his intelligence I am going to keep to myself. In a certain portion of a...

A Bid for Fortune is the first of five novels featuring Dr. Nikola, a mysterious figure with a villainous streak and occultist interests. In this novel, he is introduced as the shadowy mastermind of a plot against an upstanding Australian family, a plot that furthers his ever-present quest for immortality....

The third Nikola book, The Lust of Hate introduces Gilbert Pennethorne, a man hungry for vengeance against the thief who stole his fortune. Nikola puts the means of murder into Gilbert's hands…but can he ever find redemption for his acts after falling into Nikola's trap?

A selection of eight sensational crime stories, featuring the gentleman's rogue Simon Carne. In this book a criminal, funded by his Asian girlfriend, impersonates a wealthy English gentleman during the Jubilee year celebrations in order to carry off various insoluble crimes. Aided by his loyal servants, he is anxious always to make each burglary more publicly memorable than the last.

From seven o'clock in the evening until half past, that is to say for the half-hour preceding dinner, the Grand Hall of the Hotel Occidental, throughout the season, is practically a lounge, and is crowded with the most fashionable folk wintering in Cairo. The evening I am anxious to describe was...

In the fourth Nikola book, Dr Nikola returns to centre stage as he takes Douglas Ingleby to a remote ramshackle castle as his assistant in a daring experiment to return life to a dying old man. But Ingleby's loyalty to Nikola is challenged by the presence of the old man's granddaughter.

This book starts off in Australia with a man and his two grown children. They decide to go back to England, but before they go, an old enemy of the father's shows up. The son and daughter wonder about him. Anyway, they all move to England and buy a house that is supposed to be haunted with ghosts....

"I never knew such a fellow as you are for ferreting out these low, foreign eating-houses, said Godfrey Henderson to his friend, Victor Fensden, as they turned from Oxford Street into one of the narrow thoroughfares in the neighbourhood of Soho. "Why you should take such trouble, and at...

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 black smoke was issuing, seemed somewhat less sombre than usual…