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Louis Joseph Vance
The Lone Wolf is the nickname of Michael Lanyard, an English boy brought to Paris under mysterious circumstances, who becomes the dogs-body of Troyon's, a seemingly sleazy French hotel. The boy grows into thievery and becomes a gentlemen jewel thief,
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Louis Joseph Vance, Delphi Classics
The early twentieth-century American novelist Louis Joseph Vance created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as ‘The Lone Wolf'. His sensation thrillers and whirlwind adventure stories were well-regarded for the
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Louis Joseph Vance
This book is more a study of character than a mysterious genre by which the character is otherwise known. The book begins with the interaction of the characters with a love story, which leads to an unexpected meeting. In the end, there is a surprise
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Louis Joseph Vance
Upon a certain dreary April afternoon in the year of grace, 1906, the apprehensions of Philip Kirkwood, Esquire, Artist-peintre, were enlivened by the discovery that he was occupying that singularly distressing social position, which may be summed up
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Louis Joseph Vance
Rival members of the underworld, jealous of'Lone Wolf'Michael Lanyard's success as a jewel thief, threaten to reveal his true identity unless he surrenders his independence and joins their'pack.'Instead, Lanyard determines to quit his life of crime,
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Louis Joseph Vance
The tale bristles with breathless adventure, mistaken identities, detective investigations, romantic developments, and startling situations... It is a rousing story, told with a stimulating style, and culminating in love rewarded; but, before that ha
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Louis Joseph Vance
The super crook in'The Lone Wolf,'the object of fiendish vengeance in'The False Faces,'and the clever secret service man in'The Red Masquerade'now has his most thrilling adventure as a gentleman adventurer who pits his wits against a ruthless schemer
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Louis Joseph Vance
On the brink of retirement, the Lone Wolf risks everything for loveNearly forty years old, the Lone Wolf is, as his British Secret Service friend Wertheimer puts it, “superannuated.” His last adventure involved not just the surprise of meeting hi
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Louis Joseph Vance
The second installment in the thrilling adventures of the Lone Wolf A muddy figure inches his way across no man's land, the only living thing in a hellscape of death and misery. Artillery lights up the night sky and he pauses—as stiff and motionle