Guy Newell Boothby: 15 books

10 Complete Works of Guy Newell Boothby   A Bid for Fortune Farewell, Nikola In Strange Company Long Live the King My Strangest Case Pharos The Egyptian Sheilah McLeod The Beautiful White Devil The Childerbridge Mystery The Red Rat's Daughter  

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...

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. Fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes will enjoy this engrossing mystery.

Set amidst a rough-and-tumble community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, Guy Newell Boothby's The Marriage of Esther combines the best qualities of classic action-adventure fiction with an ingeniously plotted mystery -- and right in the middle of all of it is a heart-tugging romance.

Set in the imaginary country of Pannonia, Guy Newell Boothby's compelling novel Long Live the King gives readers a front-row seat to the tempestuous lives of royals. From life-or-death battlefield decisions that must be made in seconds flat with thousands of soldiers hanging in the balance, to tense...

Drenched with portent and moody gothic overtones, this mystery from prolific Australian novelist Guy Newell Boothby is the perfect book to curl up with on a stormy night. After making a fortune in Australia, William Standerton is ready to move back to England. He purchases a large, imposing manor house befitting his new station in life -- and that's where his problems begin.

In this exciting classic tale by famed Australian novelist Guy Newell Boothby, follow the unfortunate tale of Cyril Forrester as he is swept up into an egyptian adventure after a chance meeting with the mysterious Pharos. This excellent tale of derring-do features everything you would expect from an Egyptian adventure - mummies, pyramids and hyposis!

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....

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...

Guy Boothby's famous creation of Dr. Nikola has become familiar to every reader of fiction.

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...

There is an old saying that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives," but how true this is very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it amounts almost to the marvellous. There are men engaged in trades there, some of them highly lucrative, of which the world in general...

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 coolie,...

I suppose to every man, at some period in his life, there comes some adventure upon which, in after life, he is destined to look back with a feeling that is very near akin to astonishment. Somebody has said that adventures are to the adventurous. In my case I must confess that I do not see how the remark...