Jeffery Farnol
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
1925.
Language
English
Description
Jasper Shrig is a sort of a nineteenth century Sherlock Holmes. Thrilling events follow each other with the starling rapidity of machine gun fire on a still night. The hero's villainous Uncle is found with a dagger run through his throat. Shrig is almost strangled to death in a subterranean passage. A ghost walks. Young David, the hero, knocks out several Goliaths with his American trained fists, and beautiful girls are often in peril of their virtue....
Author
Series
Publisher
Low
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
When a storm blew away part of the crumbling masonry of the old tower at Ravenhurst Castle it revealed a skeleton, hidden for many years, which was without doubt that of the seventh earl. Few people believed that the rightful heir whose existence, until then had been unknown would be found so quickly - or that he would prove to be the person that he did. But, they counted without the presence of the ubiquitous Jasper Shrig, the Bow Street runner,...