Frederic Arnold Kummer: 23 books

She buried her face in the pillows of the couch beside which she was kneeling, and lay thus for a long time, shaking with sobs. Into her mind had come a new emotion—a new understanding of her love for her husband. Always before he had failed to master her, to make her feel that in the conjunction...

Break it in, cried Major Temple; "break it in at once." At his words, one of the servants and myself threw our combined weight against the door, and after several attempts, the fastening gave way, and we were precipitated headlong into the room. It was dark, and it seemed to me that the air was heavy...

An American spy is dispatched to save the French from defeat at the hands of the Germans. The "maguffin" in the proceedings is the titular snuff box, which contains the special and secret missing papers. The insidious Huns attempt to force Blinn's wife to reveal the whereabouts of the snuff box by subjecting her husband to deadly ultra-violet rays.

The last thing that sounded in Richard Duvall's ears as he left the office of Monsieur Lefevre, Prefect of Police of Paris, were the latter's words, spoken in a voice of mingled confidence and alarm, The fortunes of a nation may depend upon your faithfulness. Go, and God be with you. He entered the automobile...

The earliest known novel with a motion-picture theme.

The earliest known novel with a motion-picture theme. Ruth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening her mail. It was in truth a task, and one that consumed an inordinate amount of her valuable time.

THE big, mud-spattered touring car, which for the past hour had been plowing its way steadily northward from the city of Washington, hesitated for a moment before the gateway which marked the end of the well kept drive, then swept on to the house. A man, stoutly built, keen of eye, showing haste in his every movement, sprang from the machine and ascended the veranda steps.

American detective Richard Duvall is given a top secret highly sensitive task by Monsieur Lefevre, Paris' Prefect of Police. The French ambassador in London has lost an ivory snuffbox, and it is Duvall's task to find it and retrieve it safely as quickly and invisibly as possible--on the day that...

The kidnapping of an American millionaire's infant son in Paris, in broad daylight, from a field in the Bois de Boulogne, seems inexplicable until Richard Duvall applies "the inexorable laws of logic and deduction . . . to arrive at a solution as astonishing as it is simple, when once it has been reached."