Guy Boothby: 60 books

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...

Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was an Australian novelist. The Works of Guy Boothby, contains 21 books, including: Dr. Nikola: A Bid for Fortune Dr. Nikola Returns The Lust of Hate Dr. Nikola Experiment ‘Farewell Nikola’ Other works: The Beautiful White Devil...

Guy Newell Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the turn of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr. Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Sheilah McLeod - A Heroine of the Back Blocks. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

In Strange Company by Guy Booth by Australian author Guy Boothby put his wanderlust to work as fodder for his fiction. Though his first publication was a non-fiction account of a trip through his native country, he soon turned to fiction as an outlet for his creativity, focusing primarily on action-adventure, mystery, and detection tales. In Strange Company was Boothby

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.

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...

Doctor Nikola was the well known of Guy Boothby novels, in the Dr. Nikola Series, about an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. The adventures of Nikola were launched with the first episode of A Bid for Fortune which was serialized in The Windsor Magazine (a rival to The Strand...

Farewell, Nikola! is the fifth and final of Guy Boothby's novels featuring Dr. Nikola. In his last adventure, set againt the background of turn-of-the-century Venice, he meets again his nemesis from the first book, Richard Hatteras. Hatteras never wanted to, or expected to, see Nikola again, but...

"The night was sweltering hot, even for Hong Kong. The town clock had just chimed a quarter-past ten, and though the actual sound of the striking had died away, the vibration of the bells lingered for nearly half a minute on the murky stillness of the air. In spite of the exertions of the punkah...

This complete series follow the mysterious Dr. Nikola, an occultist anti-hero bent on obtaining forbidden knowledge to further his power and ambition. He was the world's first master villain, a Victorian forerunner of Dr Fu Manchu and the mad cat-stroking evil genius Blofeld in the James Bond...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr] Tom Swift and His Wireless Message [Victor Appleton] Gulliver of Mars Edwin [Lester Arnold] The Lust of Hate Guy [Newell Boothby] Cabin...

Dr Nikola Returns is the second of Guy Boothby's novels featuring Dr. Nikola, a mysterious and ruthless figure seeking the secrets of the occult. In this book, Nikola moves from shadowy villain to centre stage, the anti-hero who employs Wilfred Bruce to accompany him on his quest to steal secrets from an ancient monastery in Tibet.

Australian author Guy Boothby was extraordinarily prolific during his short-lived career. He produced dozens of works spanning numerous genres before his untimely death at age 38 during a bout of influenza. Sheilah McLeod is a rollicking romance packed with plenty of adventure, telling the tale of a couple who grew up together and whose love appeared to have been fated from the very start.