William Murray Graydon (1864-1946) was a prolific American writer of adventures stories for the young. Although the title sounds like a fairy tale, The Princess of the Purple Palace follows the efforts of two boys to rescue a princess during the 1898-1901 Boxer Rebellion in China.

Sexton Blake tracks down a missing British heir in India . . . only to find a wild boy raised in the wild by panthers! A 1905 dime novel adventure.

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"It was November in London. The great city was buried under a dank, yellow fog. Traffic was temporarily checked; foot passengers groped their way by the light of the street lamps, and the hoarse shouts of the link boys running before cabs and carriages with blazing torches rang at intervals above the muffled rumble of countless wheels. "In the coffee-room of a quiet hotel on the Strand a young man stands by the window, looking pensively out on the misty street. He is quite young, with light hair that falls half over his forehead, and a drooping, golden mustache, and in rather startling contrast to these a deep-bronzed complexion that tells of foreign lands and tropical suns." In Guy in the Jungle Sexton Blake tracks down a missing British heir in India only to find a wild boy raised in the wild by panthers William Murray Graydon was an American-born writer of adventure and detective fiction. He wrote more than 100 Sexton Blake Stories. Pseudonyms include Alfred Armitage, William Murray Gordon, William Murray, and Tom Olliver.

Title: Exiled to Siberia. A novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Graydon, William Murray; 1897.]. 153 p.; 8 . 012626.i.41.

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