The Victorian Rogues MEGAPACK ™: 28 Classic Tales Read online

  Table of Contents

  COPYRIGHT INFO

  A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

  The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE DIAMOND LINKS, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE OLD MASTER, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE TYROLEAN CASTLE, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE DRAWN GAME, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE GERMAN PROFESSOR, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE ARREST OF THE COLONEL, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE SELDON GOLD-MINE, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE JAPANNED DISPATCH-BOX, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE GAME OF POKER, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE BERTILLON METHOD, by Grant Allen

  Colonel Clay in THE EPISODE OF THE OLD BAILEY, by Grant Allen

  THE COUNT’S CHAUFFEUR, by William Le Queux

  THE CHAIR OF PHILANTHROMATHEMATICS, by O. Henry

  ABOUT BOSTON BLACKIE

  BOSTON BLACKIE, by Jack Boyle

  ABOUT THUBWAY THAM

  THUBWAY THAM, by Johnston McCulley

  ABOUT ARSÈNE LUPIN

  THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ARSÈNE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-BURGLAR, by Maurice Leblanc

  ABOUT THE LONE WOLF

  THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance

  ALIAS THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance

  A ROGUE’S LIFE, by Wilkie Collins

  THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND SWAG, by Robert Barr

  JEFF PETERS AS A PERSONAL MAGNET, by O. Henry

  THE ASSASSINS’ CLUB, by Gelett Burgess

  MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH, by Christopher B. Booth

  ABOUT EUGÈNE VALMONT

  Eugène Valmont in THE CLUE OF THE SILVER SPOONS, by Robert Barr

  JEM BINNEY AND THE SAFE AT LOCKWOOD HALL, by William Hope Hodgson

  THE VICEROY’S PROTÉGÉ, by Guy Boothby

  ABOUT A.J. RAFFLES

  A.J. Raffles in A COSTUME PIECE, by E.W. Hornung

  CONSTANCE DUNLAP, by Arthur B. Reeve

  COPYRIGHT INFO

  The Victorian Rogues MEGAPACK™ is copyright © 2014 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

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  The MEGAPACK™ ebook series name is a trademark of Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

  A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

  Some of my favorite fictional characters are in this Megapack. Sure, you can root for Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan or Hugh Drummond. But I’ll take a good old-fashioned rogue over the lot of ’em any day. Boston Blackie, A.J. Raffles, the Lone Wolf, Thubway Tham, Mr. Clackworthy, Arsene Lupin—they all hold a curious fascination, dabbling as they do in crime and punishment!

  So take a walk on the seamy side of the Victorian era. (And yes, I do know I’m cheating with my dates a little bit. But we wanted to include a few latter-day rogues whose adventures are in the spirit of the original Victorian rogues.)

  One note on content: now that we have published well over 170 volumes in the MEGAPACK™ ebook series, it’s becoming harder to find favorite stories we haven’t already used, especially in some of the author- or character-specific volumes. Please pardon us for reusing a couple of short stories in this volume...but it’s hard to put together a Victorian Rogues collection without characters like A.J. Raffles, whose complete adventures have already appeared in The Raffles MEGAPACK™.)

  Enjoy!

  —John Betancourt

  Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

  www.wildsidepress.com

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