In the canon
A Prince of Swindlers
Guy Boothby
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1900
- Pages
- Pages 300
London in the Jubilee season is mad for two men: Klimo, the private detective the whole city is talking about, and Simon Carne, the gentleman newly arrived from India with letters of introduction from the Viceroy, a fortune, a valet, and a hump. The houses back onto each other in Park Lane, and the men are the same man.
Small wonder, therefore, that the wealth, then located in our great metropolis, should have attracted swindlers from all parts of the globe.
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