Grant Allen
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Description
Grant Allen is a pen-name of Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen, a Canadian science writer and novelist, and a proponent of the theory of evolution. - Wikipedia
Books
Venice
A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.
Paris
Miss Cayley's adventures
Miss Lois Cayley graduates from Cambridge, but has nothing left of the small amount of money her father left her when he died. She wants adventure and is determined to travel "round the world with twopence in her pocket". Her cleverness and charm let her do just that, with plenty of adventure, generous friends, dastardly villains, and a little romance.
An African Millionaire
"A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the reader guessing: whom can you trust? Van Drift grows more suspicious of those around him and a few too many misguided accusations shake the millionaire's confidence. Colonel Clay is in his head. Gary Hoppenstand contributes an introduction discussing the reception of the work when it was first serialized in THE STRAND and the significance of Colonel Clay as the first recurring gentleman rogue"--