An African millionaire
episodes in the life of the illustrious Colonel Clay
by Grant Allen
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"A genre classic, Grant Allen's AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE is the perfect addition to our mini library of classic crime fiction. Wealthy, confident, and handsome, Charles Van Drift is not accustomed to being swindled and his brush with Colonel Clay both rattles and infuriates him. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, Allen leaves even the reader guessing: whom can you trust? Van Drift grows more suspicious of those around him and a few too many misguided accusations shake the millionaire's confidence. Colonel Clay is in his head. Gary Hoppenstand contributes an introduction discussing the reception of the work when it was first serialized in THE STRAND and the significance of Colonel Clay as the first recurring gentleman rogue"--
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An African millionaire: episodes in the life of the illustrious Colonel Clay
2012, Penguin Classics
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An African Millionaire
April 15, 2002, James A Rock & Co. Publishers
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An African millionaire: episodes in the life of the illustrious Colonel Clay
1898, G. Richards
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An African millionaire: episodes in the life of the illustrious Colonel Clay
1897, E. Arnold
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A re-issue of the sheets of the London edition published by G. Richards, 1897, with cancel t.p.
Woodcut illustrations signed: GB [i.e. Gordon Browne]
Advertisements dated: June, 1897.
Gift; Richard Landon; 2010; RB295809.
Fisher copy: Bound in beige and red striped cloth, with title and ornaments on upper cover and spine in silver.
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"My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth."
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