John C Hutcheson: 5 books

“Hullo! Markworth. How lucky! Why you are just the man I want; you’re ubiquitous, who’d have thought of seeing you in town?” said Tom Hartshorne, of the —th Dragoons, cheerily, as he sauntered late one summer afternoon into a private billiard-room in Oxford-street, where a tall, dark-complexioned,...

This early work by John Buchan was originally published in 1886 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Jim Newman’s Yarn: Or, A Sight of the Sea Serpent' is a short story about a mysterious creature of the deep. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a...

In the Rectory Garden. “And so, Allan, you wish to go to sea?” “Yes, father,” I replied. “But, is there no other profession you would prefer—the law, for instance? It seems a prosperous trade enough, judging from the fact that solicitors generally appear well to do, with plenty of money—possibly...