Robert Barr Books In Order

Lord Stranleigh Books In Order

  1. The Measure of the Rule (1907)
  2. Young Lord Stranleigh (1908)
  3. Stranleigh’s Millions (1909)

Novels

  1. In the Midst of Alarms (1894)
  2. The Heralds of Fame (1896)
  3. The Mutable Many (1896)
  4. One Day’s Courtship (1896)
  5. A Woman Intervenes (1896)
  6. The Countess Tekla (1899)
  7. Jennie Baxter, Journalist (1899)
  8. The O’Ruddy (1903)
  9. Over the Border (1903)
  10. A Chicago Princess (1904)
  11. A Rock in the Baltic (1906)
  12. The Watermead Affair (1906)
  13. The Sword Maker (1910)
  14. Lady Eleanor, Lawbreaker (1911)

Omnibus

  1. One Day’s Courtship and the Heralds of Fame (1896)

Collections

  1. In A Steamer Chair (1892)
  2. From Whose Bourne (1893)
  3. The Face and the Mask (1895)
  4. Revenge! (1896)
  5. The Strong Arm (1899)
  6. A Prince of Good Fellows (1902)
  7. The Lady Electra (1904)
  8. The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont (1906)
  9. Selected Stories (1977)
  10. Three Men in the Dark (2017)

Chapbooks

  1. The Absent-Minded Coterie (2004)
  2. The Clue of the Silver Spoons (2004)
  3. Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune (2004)
  4. The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds (2004)

Novellas

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Stranleigh’s Millions

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In the Midst of Alarms

THE FORGOTTEN INVASIONS The country is Canada. The year is 1866, the year after the end of the American Civil War. The scene: the ‘ridge road’ in Welland County, Ontario, a dozen miles from Fort Erie. A New York journalist has in need of a rest is joined by an old schoolmate, a professor in University College Toronto. They set out to find a camping place, meet two agreeable Canadian girls and find romance, adventure and the remarkable rustic characters of Ontario. They also find a forgotten invasion. In 1866 groups of Irish Americans the Fenians crossed the Canadian Border to attack British troops at British forts to protest British rule of Ireland. They called themselves the IRA the Irish Republican Army. Here is a novel of charm, humor and romance by a remarkable writer illumining important history lost in the mists of Time.

The Mutable Many

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One Day’s Courtship

‘Those pictures, Miss Sommerton, are not genuine; they are not at all what they pretend to be. The prints that you have seen are the results of the manipulation of two separate plates, one of the plates containing the group or the person photographed, and the other an instantaneous picture of the falls. If you look closely at one of those pictures you will see a little halo of light or dark around the person photographed. That, to an experienced photographer, shows the double printing. In fact, it is double dealing all round. The deluded victim of the camera imagines that the pictures he gets of the falls, with himself in the foreground, is really a picture of the falls taken at the time he is being photographed.

A Woman Intervenes

Robert Barr was an British novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which he appeared as ‘Luke Sharp.’ In 1881 he moved to London, to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press. In 1892 founded The Idler magazine, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator, retiring from the coeditorship in 1895. In A Woman Intervenes, Jennie Brewster is hired by the New York Argus to get the details of investigations made of Canadian mining properties by two Englishmen. She must sail to London on the Calico, and work the details out of them, then cable the results to New York before they report to the London Syndicate formed to purchase the properties. A top male reporter for the Argus has tried and failed to get the story. Can a woman succeed?

The Countess Tekla

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Jennie Baxter, Journalist

Dark eyed Jennie always takes care with her appearance. Those magazine pieces about affordable Parisian styles did appear below her name, after all.

At this moment she takes special care, however for she is setting out to capture a man…
and not just any man, either: Radnor Hardwick, capable editor of the Daily Bugle, the most enterprising morning journal in the metropolis. Jennie has done work for evening papers, weeklies, and a number of the monthlies, but the income, while reasonably good, is hazardously fitful!

As she sets out the door, she unknowingly sets herself upon a future course full of more excitement than she bargained for for she finds herself involved in solving a mystery, becoming a special officer for the police and being sent on a mission abroad calling for deception and thievery.

The O’Ruddy

Stephen Crane 1871 1900 was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He is best known for his novel Red Badge of Courage 1895. He lived in New York City a bohemian life where he observed the poor in the Bowery slums as research for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1893. He became shipwrecked in route to Cuba in early 1897, an experience which he later transformed into his short story masterpiece, The Open Boat 1898. Other works include: Active Service 1899, Whilomville Stories 1900 and The O’Ruddy with Robert Barr 1903. Robert Barr 1850 1912 was a British Canadian novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the Normal School of Toronto, Canada, was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature ‘Luke Sharp. ‘ In 1881 he removed to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 founded The Idler magazine. Among his works are: From Whose Bourne 1896 and Jennie Baxter, Journalist 1899.

A Chicago Princess

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A Rock in the Baltic

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The Sword Maker

Robert Barr was an British novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which he appeared as ‘Luke Sharp.’ In 1881 he moved to London, to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press. In 1892 founded The Idler magazine, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator, retiring from the coeditorship in 1895. The Sword Maker is a historical romance, set in the Rhenish Palatinates. The Emperor is old, fat, lax and indolent, caring only for his flagon of wine, and his nobles have waxed in power, levying taxes so heavy commerce has come to a standstill in Frankfort. An attempt by merchants to run the blockade on the river and reach Cologne has been destroyed, with the Robber Barons sinking the ships and taking the goods. An appeal to the seven Electors to depose the Emperor and install his son in his stead has proven futile, as the Electors benefit from things as they are, and the Prince has been imprisoned by an Archbishop to forestall further efforts. The guild of ironworkers makes fine swords, and suffers like the rest from the standstill in commerce. Revolution is brewing…

One Day’s Courtship and the Heralds of Fame

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 John Trenton, artist, put the finishing touches to the letter he was writing, and then read it over to himself. It ran as follows: ‘MY DEAR ED., ‘I sail for England on the 27th. But before I leave I want to have another look at the Shawenegan Falls. Their roar has been in my ears ever since I left there. That tremendous hillside of foam is before my eyes night and day. The sketches I took are not at all satisfactory, so this time I will bring my camera with me, and try to get some snapshots at the falls.

In A Steamer Chair

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt:…
humor. In all my ocean voyages, I have never had the good fortune to see a steward fall. He knew also, the racsal, that a lady would sympathize with him, and that he wouldn’t lose anything by it, except the cup, which is not his loss.’ ‘Oh, yes, it is,’ replied the young lady, ‘he tells me they charge all breakages against him.’ ‘He didn’t tell you what method they had of keeping track of the breakages, did he? Suppose he told the chief steward that you broke the cup, which it is likely he did. What then?’ ‘Oh, you are too cynical this morning, and it would serve you just right if you go and get some coffee for yourself, and meet with the same disaster that overtook the unfortunate steward. Only you are forewarned that you shall have neither sympathy nor fee.’ ‘Well, in that case,’ said the young man, ‘I shall not take the risk. I shall sacrifice the steward rather. Oh, here he is. I say, steward, will you bring me a cup of coffee, please?’ ‘Yes, sir. Any biscuit, sir?’ ‘No, no biscuit. Just a cup of coffee and a couple of lumps of sugar, please; and if you’ can first get me a chair, and strap it to this rod in the manner you do so well, I shall be very much obliged.’ ‘Yes, sir. I shall call the deck steward, sir.’ ‘Now, notice that. You see the rascals never interfere with each other. The deck steward wants a fee, and the smoking room steward wants a fee, and each one attends strictly to his own business, and doesn’t interfere with the possible fees of anybody else.’ ‘Well,’ said Miss Earle, ‘is not that the correct way? If things are to be well done, that is how they should be done. Now, just notice how much more artistically the deck steward arranged these rugs than you did yesterday morning. I think it is worth a good fee to be wrapped up so comfortably…

From Whose Bourne

HE HAD TO SOLVE HIS OWN MURDER William Brenton was a newlywed, happy and healthy and embarked on a new life with his wife, Alice. But on Christmas Eve at his own party, Brenton feels ill. He goes upstairs, lies down on his bed…
And wakes up dead. Floating above the scene he sees it all. His dear wife discovering his dead body the next morning, her horror and grief the household in uproar…
. And then a fellow named Ferris makes his acquaintance. You’re in a different world, a better world, so don’t look back, the man tells him. But then the police come. William Brenton had died of a morphine overdose, and his wife is accused of the murder. Brenton knows what he must do, even from the world beyond. FIND OUT THE TRUTH! With the help of a hard boiled Chicago newsman and the ghost of a famous French detective, William Brenton searches for the truth that will set his wife free. But can his soul deal with what he finds? A CLASSIC TALE OF LOVE, DEATH AND MYSTERY

The Face and the Mask

Two beautiful ladies approached him one richly dressed with the most dazzling jewelry. The other was clad in plain attire. At first, the dreaming Mr. Crandall thought the richly dressed one was the prettier. She was certainly very attractive but, as she came closer, he saw how much of her beauty was artificial. About the other there was no question. A beauty…
‘Mr. Crandall,’ she said, in the sweetest of voices, ‘we have come here together that you may choose between us.’ ‘Bless me,’ said Crandall, so much surprised at the unblushing proposal that he nearly awoke himself, ‘bless me, don’t you know I am married?’ ‘Oh, that doesn’t matter,’ answered the fair young lady, with the divinest of smiles. ‘We are not mortals. We are spirits!’ Scottish novelist Robert Barr 1850 1912 wrote of the common people of his times from bank cashiers and young clerks to business tycoons as in ‘Crandall’s Choice,’ one of the many stories to be found in The Face and the Mask.

Revenge!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. UPRE sat at one of the round tables in the Cafe Vernon, with a glass of absinthe before him, which he sipped every now and again. He looked through the open door, out to the Boulevard, and saw passing to and fro, with the regularity of a pendulum, a uniformed policeman. Dupre laughed silently as he noticed this evidence of law and order. The Cafe Vernon was under the protection of the Government. The class to which Dupre belonged had sworn that it would blow the cafe into the next world, therefore the military-looking policeman walked to and fro on the pavement to prevent this being done, so that all honest citizens might see that the Government protects its own. People were arrested now and then for lingering around the cafe; they were innocent, of course, and by-and-by the Government found that out and let them go. The real criminal seldom acts suspiciously. Most of the arrested persons were merely attracted by curiosity. ‘ There,’said one to another, ‘the notorious Hertzog was arrested.’ The real criminal goes quietly into the cafe, and orders his absinthe, as Dupre had done. And the policeman marches up and down keeping an eye on the guiltless. So runs the world. There were few customers in the cafe, for people feared the vengeance of Hertzog’s friends. They expected some fine day that the cafe would be blown to atoms, and they preferred to be taking their coffee and cognac somewhere else when that time came. It was evident that M. Sonne, the proprietor of the cafe, had done a poor stroke of business for himself when he gave information to the police regarding the whereabouts of Hertzog, notwithstanding the fact that his cafe became suddenly the most noted one in the city, and that it now enjoyed the protection of the Government. Dupre seldom…

The Strong Arm

Count Herbert looked with astonishment upon the custodian of Castle Gudenfels. Here was a contest going on at his very doors, even if on the opposite side of the river, and yet a veteran knew nothing of the contest. But they were now at the frowning gates of Castle Gudenfels, with its lofty square pinnacled tower, and the curiosity of the young Count was dimmed by the admiration he felt for this great stronghold as he gazed upward at it. An instant later he with his escort passed through the gateway and stood in the courtyard of the castle. When he had dismounted the Count said to Richart.

A Prince of Good Fellows

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The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

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The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont 1906 brings together tales of the multifarious exploits of Robert Barr’s elegant and cunning sleuth, Valmont, a brilliantly ironic parody of Sherlock Holmes. Exhibiting the crucial combination of realism and imagination that characterizes the finest crime writing, the stories exude playfulness and blend mystery and quasi Gothic thrills with humorous detours and romantic adventure. A notable figure in 1890s literary London and a friend of Conan Doyle, Barr was acutely aware of style as a form of statement and the stories are full of literary effects, commentary on the detective mystery genre, and Valmont’s disparaging reflections on English values.

From the hilarious satire of sensationalism in The Siamese Twin of a Bomb Thrower to the bizarre and operatic melodrama of The Ghost with the Club Foot, Barr’s stories delight the reader with their skill, variety, and never abandoned sense of spirited fun.

Selected Stories

The twelve Selected Stories by Canadian author Robert Barr are accompanied by his essay ‘How to Write a Short Story.’

The Absent-Minded Coterie

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The Clue of the Silver Spoons

Really, my mind is in such a whirl, I don’t know what to think. But it’s perfectly absurd to suspect Dacre. If you knew the man you would understand what I mean. He comes of an excellent family, and he is oh! he is Lionel Dacre, and when you have said that you have made any suspicion absurd.

Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune

One moment, my lord,’ I rejoined, waving him to his chair again. ‘Although I am unprepared to accept a commission on the terms you suggest, I may, nevertheless, be able to offer a hint or two that will prove of service to you. I think I remember the announcement of Lord Chizelrigg’s death. He was somewhat eccentric, was he not?

The Mystery of the Five Hundred Diamonds

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