The Childerbridge Mystery. by - Guy Boothby - Böcker - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781537696959 - 16 september 2016
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The Childerbridge Mystery. by

Guy Boothby

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Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 - 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end 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 forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell Boothby was born in Adelaide to a prominent family in the recently established British colony of South Australia.[2] His father was Thomas Wilde Boothby, [3] who for a time was a member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly, three of his uncles were senior colonial administrators, and his grandfather was Benjamin Boothby (1803-1868), controversial judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1853 to 1867.[4] When Boothby was aged approximately seven his English-born mother, whom he held in great regard, separated from his father and returned with her children to England. There he received a traditional English grammar school education at Salisbury, Lord Weymouth's Grammar (now Warminster School) and Christ's Hospital, Londo

Media Böcker     Pocketbok   (Bok med mjukt omslag och limmad rygg)
Releasedatum 16 september 2016
ISBN13 9781537696959
Utgivare Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Antal sidor 88
Mått 203 × 254 × 5 mm   ·   190 g
Språk Engelska  

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