Heiress Muriel Carew has the shock of her life while attending a society party at the London home of wealthy philanthropist Simeon Courtenay. Her former fiance Dr. Henry Jekyll, whom she hasn’t seen in a decade, is somehow in attendance too. The last she’d heard of him, he’d disappeared to the continent after breaking off…
The golden sands, verdant hills, and crystalline waters of the Caribbean Sea have called to authors since the age of piracy ended. Indeed, one of the first works set there, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, was about that most Caribbean of occupations. Following Stevenson’s path, the greats (Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream), the near-greats…
Sir Lionel Barton: “You're Fu Manchu, aren't you?” Fu Manchu: I am a doctor of philosophy from Edinburgh, I am a doctor of law from Christ College, I am a doctor of medicine from Harvard. My friends, out of courtesy, call me doctor. Sir Lionel Barton: “Oh, I beg your pardon. Well, three times doctor,…
I’ll probably wait for The Raven on DVD or on Demand. You know that new movie starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, wherein the famous author goes hunting a murderer who’s imitating the plots from his stories? It’s not that I don’t like Cusack, because I do. Or that I don’t like Poe, because…
