E. W. Hornung

My Lord Duke (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A simple plot that steadily grows more complex. The book opens with supposed Duke Claude Lafont discussing the whereabouts of his lawyer, who he sent to Australia to search for the hitherto unkwn heir to his Uncle's Dukedom. Jake Darrendall a cat loving sheepherder from the bush of Australia. Hornung gets all the mileage he can out of such a simple premise with several twists. Every character has an arc even the character who talks about exclusively golf.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985315482
• Artikelnr.: 62735755

Autorenporträt

Author and poet Ernest William Hornung was born on June 7, 1866, in Marton, Middlesbrough. Hornung was given the nickname Willie at a young age. The A. J. Raffles series of tales, which center on a gentleman burglar in late 19th-century London, is what made him most famous. His friends Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde, as well as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, served as inspiration for several of the characters. In 1898, he published ""In the Chains of Crime,"" which introduced Bunny Manders and Raffles. In 1899, the collection of Raffles' short stories was published as a book for sale. In addition to his Raffles tales, Hornung was a prolific fiction author who produced a large number of works between 1890 and 1914. He wrote a lot when he was in France; his son, Oscar, was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres in July 1915. The strain of his wartime duties significantly deteriorated Hornung's already poor constitution. On the train, he had a chill that developed into influenza and pneumonia, which led to his death on March 22, 1921, at the age of 54. In the south of France, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, he was laid to rest.