“Collected Works of Guy Boothby” contains: •An aesthetic cover page.•A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles. •Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters.•Nicely organized chapters and text.•Original illustrationsWorks of the author included in this collection:•FAREWELL, NIKOLA'•A BID FOR FORTUNE•A CABINET SECRET•A CRIME OF THE UNDER-SEAS•IN STRANGE COMPANY•LONG LIVE THE KING•MY STRANGEST CASE•PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN•SHEILAH MCLEOD•THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL•THE CHILDERBRIDGE MYSTERY•THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT•THE MARRIAGE OF ESTHER•THE MYSTERY OF THE CLASPED HANDS•THE RED RAT'S DAUGHTERWikipedia on Guy Boothby: Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.Boothby was born in Adelaide, son of Thomas Wilde Boothby, who for a time was a member of the South Australian Legislative Assembly. Guy Boothby's grandfather was Benjamin Boothby (1803–1868), judge of the supreme court of South Australia from 1853 to 1867. When Boothby was six he travelled to England with his mother, and thus was educated at Salisbury, Lord Weymouth's Grammar (now Warminster School) and Christ's Hospital, London.He returned to his native country at the age of 16, in 1883. His grandfather had been a high court judge in his home state, and his father was a local politician; these connections doubtless led to his accepting a role as private secretary to the mayor of Adelaide, Lewis Cohen, but was "not contented" with the work.In 1890, aged 23, Boothby wrote the libretto for a comic opera, Sylvia, which was published and produced at Adelaide in December 1890, and in 1891 appeared The Jonquil: an Opera. The music in each case was written by Cecil James Sharp. While writing his second comic opera he was private secretary to the mayor of Adelaide, South AustraliaThere was little opportunity for Boothby to progress in the Adelaide Corporation: thus, with the support of Cohen, Boothby moved to Brisbane in Queensland where he believed that he would find "a wider opening for his talents". Perhaps wanting to get to know the country of his birth better, he went on a trek across the continent from North to South with his brother, later writing up his adventures in his book, On the Wallaby (1894) also known as Through the East and Across Australia. During 1894 he published his first novel In Strange Company, this novel was well received and he departed Brisbane, Queensland to travel to London, EnglandHe arrived in London (at the age of 27) in 1894. He now remained in England and in 1894 he published On the Wallaby or Through the East and Across Australia, an account of the travels of himself and his brother, including a description of their journey across Australia from Cooktown in Queensland to Adelaide in South Australia. In the same year his first novel, In Strange Company, was published in London and was quickly successful. He wrote over 50 books over the course of a decade.