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قراءة كتاب Adrift in the Unknown or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm
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Adrift in the Unknown or, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm
ADRIFT IN THE UNKNOWN
Adrift in the Unknown
OR,
Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm
By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK
Author of "The Paymaster's Special," "A Deep-sea Game,"
"In the Web," "His Friend the Enemy," etc.
STREET & SMITH CORPORATION
PUBLISHERS
79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York
A CARNIVAL OF ACTION
ADVENTURE LIBRARY
Splendid, Interesting, Big Stories
For the present the Adventure Library will be devoted to the publication of stories by William Wallace Cook.
The fact that one man wrote all of these stories in no way detracts from their interest, as they are all very different in plot and locality.
For example, the action in one story takes place in "The Land of Little Rain;" another deals with adventure on the high seas; another is a good railroad story; others are splendid Western stories; and some are mystery stories. All of them, however, are stories of vigorous adventure drawn true to life, which gives them the thrill that all really good fiction should have.
Copyright 1904-1906
By Frank A. Munsey Co.
Adrift in the Unknown
(Printed In the United States of America)
CONTENTS
ADRIFT IN THE UNKNOWN.
CHAPTER I.
LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN?
There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the Morning Mercury.
Munn, it is no breach of confidence to inform the reader, was a reformed burglar; although the author of two books which achieved large sales and were most favorably received by the reviewers—"Forty Ways of Cracking Safes" and "The Sandbagger's Manual"—Mr. Munn developed small skill with the pen, so that the breathless interest aroused by his revelations hangs more upon the matter than the style. The Mercury article should do its mite toward preparing the reader for what is to come.
In the first place, the story was what newspaper men call a "scoop."
The article in the first edition ran as follows:
QUINN'S CASTLE VANISHES.
AND SO DOES QUINN! WITH HOUSE AND BELONGINGS. THE HARLEM SAGE DISAPPEARS IN A SINGLE HOUR.