A Bid for Fortune

A Bid for Fortune is the first in a series of novels about Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. "Abounds in dramatic situations, and is bright in dialogue, graphic in description, and subtle in character analysis." Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. 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.