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Guy Newell Boothby
Full Series List in Order
Dr. Nikola Master of Occult Mystery
A Bid for Fortune, or Dr Nikola's Vendetta ()Dr. Nikola ()
Dr. Nikola Returns ()
Dr. Nikola, Master Criminal ()
Dr. Nikola's Experiment ()
Enter Doctor Nikola! ()
Farewell, Nikola! ()
The Lust Of Hate ()
Book List in Order: 31 titles
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A Bid for Fortune or Dr Nikola's Vendetta
- Jan-2018
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This is the first in Boothby's series of Dr. Nikola novels. It opens with the manager of a fine London restaurant preparing for a dinner reserved in an odd letter originating from Brazil 3 months prior, for 4 persons in a private room, where 3 guests...
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Dr. Nikola's Experiment Annotated
- Sep-2019
- / General Fiction
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Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of longevity and restoration of you...
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The Childerbridge Mystery
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Dr. Nikola Returns
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Marriage Of Esther
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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On The Wallaby
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scannin...
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A Strange Goldfield, and A Professor of Egyptology
Guy Newell Boothby, (1867-1905), was an Australian novelist and writer. In 1890 he wrote the libretto for a comic opera, Sylvia, which was published and produced at Adelaide in 1890. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the East and Acros...
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The Beautiful White Devil
Get set for a rip-roaring romp around the world in Guy Newell Boothby's The Beautiful White Devil. Packing in plenty of action and romance, this novel follows the exploits of a beguiling criminal mastermind who steals the heart of the tale's protagon...
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A Bid for Fortune, or Dr Nikola's Vendetta
If you're one of those readers who always finds themselves rooting for the bad guy, you'll relish every sentence of Guy Newell Boothby's A Bid for Fortune. Dr. Nikola is a brilliant master criminal who is on a lifelong quest to achieve im...
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A Cabinet Secret
Popular novel first published in 1901. According to Wikipedia: "Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 â€" 26 February 1905) was an Australian novelist and writer.”...
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A Crime Of The Underseas
This collection is named for Guy Boothby's "A Crime of the Underseas"; but there are other tales in this book as well -- "The Phantom Stockman," "The Treasure of Sacramento Nick," "Into the Outer Darkness" and "The Story of Tommy Dodd and 'The Roo...
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Dr. Nikola
Of the Dr. Nikola series John Clute writes: "The heart of the series is devoted to the Doctor's convoluted search for a Tibetan process that will resuscitate the dead and ensure immortality in the living, and there are some hints that â€" unhamper...
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Dr. Nikola, Master Criminal
Elegant, ruthless, hypnotic: enter Dr Nikola and his black cat Apollyon. 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 books and films. Now Dr Nikola is ...
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Dr. Nikola's Experiment
"My Dear Ingleby," the letter from his benefactor read, "I am sorry to learn from my housekeeper that affairs have not been prospering with you. This must be remedied, and at once. There never was such luck as your being in want of employment at t...
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The Duchess Of Wiltshire's Diamonds
Guy Newell Boothby, (1867-1905), was an Australian novelist and writer. In 1890 he wrote the libretto for a comic opera, Sylvia, which was published and produced at Adelaide in 1890. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the East and Acros...
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Enter Doctor Nikola!
Guy Boothbys first novel of five about the notorious Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. All the titels in the serie: Dr Nikola I - Enter, dr Nikola Dr Nikola II - Dr Nikola Returns Dr Nikola III - The Lust...
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Farewell, Nikola!
"You can give me no explanation, then?" said Nikola, with one of his inscrutable smiles. "And yet, having accumulated this power, this knowledge, call it what you will, you would still bid me give up Science. Come, my friend, you have seen somethi...
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In Strange Company
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 prima...
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The Kidnapped President
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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Long Live The King
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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A Lost Endeavour
This early works was originally published in 1895. It is a fascinating novel of the period and is still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and incre...
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The Lust Of Hate
Boothby has presented the notion that hatred and vengeance are the emotions that will first destroy its bearer. The motif of the novel is the futility of the will to cause destruction. Even if the reasons are justified and warranted, yet the conseque...
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My Strangest Case
For the simple reason that he is confident he has put you off the scent, was my companion's reply. "He is doing the one foolish thing the criminal always does sooner or later; that is to say, he is becoming over-confident of his own powers to elude u...
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The Mystery of the Clasped Hands
"I never knew such a fellow as you are for ferreting out these low, foreign eating-houses," said Godfrey Henderson to his friend, Victor Fensden, as they turned from Oxford Street into one of the narrow thoroughfares in the neighbourhood of Soho. "Wh...
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Pharos, the Egyptian
"My dear Trevelyan: Never in my life have I been placed in such an awkward, not to say invidious, position. I am, as you know, a plain man, fond of a plain life and plain speaking, and yet I am about to imperil that reputation by communicating to you...
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A Prince of Swindlers
First published in 1900, A Prince of Swindlers introduces Simon Carne, a gentleman thief predating both E. W. Hornung’s A. J. Raffles and Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin. The British Viceroy first meets Carne while traveling in India. Charmed, he...
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The Race Of Life
IF any man had told me a year ago that I should start out to write a book, I give you my word I should not have believed him. It would have been the very last job I should have thought of undertaking. Somehow I've never been much of a fist with the p...
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The Red Rat's Daughter
If John Grantham Browne had a fault-which, mind you, I am not prepared to admit-it lay in the fact that he was the possessor of a cynical wit which he was apt at times to use upon his friends with somewhat peculiar effect. Circumstances alter cases, ...
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Sheilah McLeod - A Heroine of the Back Blocks
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 pack...
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