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6 y separately published work icon The Man Who Didn't Fly Margot Bennett , London : The British Library , 2021 Z808914 1955 single work novel crime detective

Four men are supposed to board a plane, but when it crashes, only three men are found. Where is the fourth man?

3 y separately published work icon The Widow of Bath Margot Bennett , London : The British Library , 2021 Z808905 1952 single work novel crime
1 y separately published work icon British Library Crime Classics London : The British Library , 2014- 23247010 2014 series - publisher novel short story
1 2 y separately published work icon The Expedition of Captain Flick Fergus Hume , London : The British Library , 2011 Z1724390 1896 single work novel adventure science fiction

A lost race adventure novel in which Captain Fisk searches for, and eventually discovers the island of Isk, the South Pacific home of the Awazils - a race of people descended from the ancient Greeks and who continue their traditions and culture. A review published in the Western Mail (Perth) in 1896 further records:

The Captain Flick of Mr Fergus Hume's romance is a modern edition of the adventurous, free-booting sea dog for which the Western counties of England were so famous in years gone by. The object of the expedition upon which he sets out, in a well-equipped and well found vessel from Plymouth, is as he naively puts it, to restore the civilization the statue of Aphrodite, carved by Praxiteles for the Temple of Cythera. It is hardly necessary to say, however, that the motive impelling him to this strange quest is not as pure and ardent desire to discharge a signal service to art, but the essentially sordid ambition to obtain possession of the statue in order that he may dispose of it for a huge sum of money. He and his companions experience some strange and thrilling adventures in their search for and on the island of Isk, located by the author off the coast of Australia, in the Indian Ocean. Whatever his defects, Mr Fergus Hume has no lack of imagination; and in The Expedition of Captain Flick, many are likely to find entertainment in turning to its pages for recreation (10 April 1896, p.5).  

1 y separately published work icon Judith Grant : A Novel Jeannie Lockett , London : The British Library , 2011 Z1222538 1892 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Keith Kavanagh : A Remittance Man E. Baldwin Hodge , London : The British Library , 2011 Z1030784 1894 single work novel

'Keith is the younger son of 'a good family,' but he marries 'beneath him.' His patrician mother and brother — the former 'statuesque' and the latter a prig — are scandalised at this, and determine to ship Keith away to Australia and make him a man with a past and a remittance. There is the usual 'good bye' aboard ship, and a surprise at the last moment in the shape of the deserted wife, who turns up and wants to know her husband's destination. This he gives her as 'New Zealand,' on which information the 'plump little woman' jumps on to the wharf and contentedly waves her adieux with a silk handkerchief. The customary fair passage follows, and Keith arrives at Sydney. Here he paints the town red with his first remittance, and the credit which is begotten by the confidence thereby created. The latter ends as credit usually does, and then Keith goes into the country and gets into the 'best society,' falling immediately in love with the young and only daughter of a squatter. The poor girl returns his affection, and casts a humbler but infinitely honester admirer aside, as young ladies will. A declaration follows, but an unexpected question prompted by gossip impels Keith to own to the existence of a just cause and impedient, in England. Indignation (temporary) on the part of the squatter's daughter, and a two week's 'drunk' on the part of the remittance man follow as a matter of course. The discarded lover, at the instance of the girl, then pulls Keith through a bit of the D. T.'s, and just at the moment of his recovery a convenient letter arrives which tells him of the death of his child, and the likely death of his wife, too, in England. With such information the inventive faculty of Keith is made complete. Interviewing the pale anxious maid, the squatter's daughter, doubtless by her own invitation, the Englishman of 'family' tells her that he is now a widower. And the 'Oh, Keith,' tells him that the news is welcome to innocence as the flowers are to spring. Father and mother are equally easily satisfied, and so the wedding follows; but, as papa, the squatter, says, there is no fortune hunting business in the union — the remittance man must shift for himself, and await his shoes when they have ceased to be useful. The remittance man does shift for himself, and he buys a large station, though how he manages the purchase one can only conjecture; and then he commences to live the life of a grazier who doesn't graze, and a squatter who doesn't squat. This business he leaves to a manager and the result is eventually that he has to mortgage. Then, somehow or other the English wife appears on the scene in Sydney, and meeting the Australian 'Mrs. Kavanagh,' who is on a visit there, gets a reluctant invitation to spend a few weeks on the station. She avails herself of this, and, of course, meets her truant husband. A series of persecutions which no self respecting woman would stand, follows for the colonial wife, who ultimately, hearing the visitor call Kavanagh by his Christian name, rises in the strength of suddenly awakened virtue and tells her to vacate. The English wife replies in the spirit of Betsy Prig. She won't vacate and she says so, and what's more she turns the tables by telling the Australian that she isn't a wife at all, that she (the visitor) is the only hall-marked Mrs. Kavanagh, and that, generally speaking, the squatter's daughter is no better than she ought to be. It is hereabouts that Mrs. Hodge's book is strongest. The recriminations which one would expect are certainly mild, but what there are, are described fairly well. That night the betrayed colonial girl wrestles with her trouble in a room which had been sacred to the momentoes of her innocence, but instead of packing off to her father she determines, as a result of her meditations, to appeal to 'this woman' in the hope of buying her off. With such intention she goes to her guest's room, enters and finds the first wife on her bed, and sees her husband, or the husband of both, standing at the toilet table. The colonial girl's 'I see I am de trop,' might have been expected to give place to something stronger but it doesn't, and a retirement is made with all the grace and dignity which novels make possible. Later on, the betrayed one's former honorable lover, who is another guest in the house, happens to get up and look out of the window, and so he sees Kavanagh with his face 'ghastly in the moonlight' plant 'something' in some bushes. Next morning the first wife is found dead, and, by the honest lover aforesaid, a bottle of poison (nearly used) is discovered in the bushes where Kavanagh made his plant the night before. A coroner's inquest fails to discover any thing wrong, and the honest lover is too honest, having taken possession of the bottle of poison, to betray the 'husband' of the girl he loves to the authorities. She, poor creature knows, however, just as much as he does, but her suspicions of her husband, due to an unguarded remark, do not prevent her approaching Kavanagh, and asking him to re-marry her, when the marriage can be made more binding. He does this, and as his elder brother has conveniently died off in England, and he has succeeded to the family estates, he takes her 'home' by the next Orient liner; and in England, presumably, the murderer and his wife live happily ever after.'

Source:

'Keith Kavanagh', National Advocate, 8 August 1894, p.3.

1 y separately published work icon Books on the Move: Tracking Copies Through Collections and the Book Trade Robin Myers (editor), Michael Harris (editor), Giles Mandelbrote (editor), London New Castle : Oak Knoll Press The British Library , 2007 Z1577155 2007 anthology essay
1 y separately published work icon Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade John Hinks (editor), Catherine Armstrong (editor), New Castle London : Oak Knoll Press The British Library , 2006 Z1353142 2006 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon A History of the Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960 Roderick Cave , Sarah Manson , London New Castle : The British Library Oak Knoll Press , 2002 Z1370973 2002 single work non-fiction Based on interviews and the Press's widely-scattered archives, this richly illustrated history discusses and assesses its books. In showing how the market for fine books was created and sustained, it provides many insights into other aspects of the British publishing scene.' - Front dust jacket flap
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