Samuel Hopkins Adams

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1920
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Books in Order: 16 titles

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  • The Beggar's Purse

    During the course of Samuel Hopkins Adams' career as an investigative journalist, he exposed a number of frauds being perpetrated on the American public and came to be known as a champion for the rights of the people. As he transitioned into the doma...

  • Wanted

    Originally titled "Enter D'Arcy," Wanted: A Husband is the name of the 1919 silent film based on this story....

  • Canal Town

    Canal Town provides an elaborate and colorful portrait of a canal town in upstate New York in the nineteenth century, during which time the Erie Canal is being built. ...

  • The Secret of Lonesome Cove

    A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed ash...

  • Our Square and the People in It

    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....

  • The Flying Death

    This early work by Samuel Hopkins Adams was originally published in 1906 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Flying Death - A Story in Three Writings and a Telegram' is a short story about a shipw...

  • Little Miss Grouch

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Common Cause

    A lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The Guardian’s muckraking has led special interests to withhold adve...

  • Success

    It is a long way from a railroad backwater station clerk, to the New York night life and a respected and even feared position on one of it's newspapers. Is that the success for which he was looking. He had power, but not the woman he loved. In his...



  • The Clarion

    Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-­1958) was an American author, born in Dunkirk, New York. He served as a reporter for the New York Sun before joining McClure's Magazine, where he became a crusader for improved governmental oversight of public issues like...

  • Grandfather Stories

    Adams has done no more charming book than these reminiscences of a boyhood in upper New York State. . . . local history, biography, or any category you please; but libraries should have it.— Library JournalAdams' skills as a novelist and a biogr...

  • Wanted: A Husband

    OUT OF ORDER pertly announced the placard on the elevator. To Miss Darcy Cole, wavering on damp, ill-conditioned, and reluctant legs, this seemed the final malignancy of the mean-spirited fates. Four beetling flights to climb Was it worth the effor...

  • Average Jones

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    “You have one rare faculty, Jones. You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.”Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones -- “Average,” to his friends -- has spent the five years since...

  • From a Bench in Our Square

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    Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American fiction writer and journalist who was interested in the lives and struggles of everyday folk. That overarching concern is on full display in this charming series of short stories, all of which are told by a legend...

  • The Mystery

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    The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave...

  • The Unspeakable Perk

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The man sat in a niche of the mountain, busily hating the Caribbean Sea. It was quite ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Samuel Hopkins Adams has published 16 books.

Samuel Hopkins Adams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wanted, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Wanted: A Husband, was published in March 1920.

No. Samuel Hopkins Adams does not write books in series.
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