Author: Frank L. Packard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338732782X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Frank L. Packard
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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The Adventures of Jimmie Dale is a book by Frank L. Packard. Jimmie Dale is a rich socialite by day, but at night he wears a costume and transforms into The Gray Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes...
Author: Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Jimmie Dale was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a grey seal behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything.
Author: Michael Howard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548060466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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"Few characters as obscure as Canadian novelist Frank L. Packard's gentleman cracksman, Jimmie Dale the Gray Seal, have had the impact and long term import of this one. Almost unknown today, Packard and his creation not only exerted a tremendous influence on the pulps he came from, but established many of the tropes of the modern superhero in comic books. From his secret lair, the Sanctuary, his multiple identities, and his calling card, a gray diamond paper seal, Jimmie Dale set the pattern for the mystery men and super heroes who will follow." - David L. Vineyard In the summer of 1912 New York City was being terrorized by a bizarre organization of metal-clawed criminals who ascend stone walls as easily as others climb stairs. Dubbed the Spider Gang by the press, they roamed over every part of Manhattan from neighborhoods of squalid tenements to the most luxurious mansions of the rich. It wasn't wealth that they sought however, instead it was the City's most beautiful women who were being carried off for some unknown purpose. A new challenge for the Gray Seal! The very first in a long, long line of crime-fighting urban vigilantes has returned in an all new novel length adventure. More than a century ago bored society millionaire Jimmie Dale hid his identity behind a mask and slouch hat to become the safe-cracking master criminal known as the Gray Seal. His objective was excitement rather than financial gain, but quickly decided that justice was a still more worthy goal. Dale became feared and hunted by both the police and the underworld as he waged a one-man war on evildoers the law could not stop. Commanded by the mysterious woman of a thousand faces known as the Tocsin, Jimmie Dale pits himself against those who prey on the weakest members of society. The Gray Seal novels of Frank Packard influenced a wide range of heroes including The Shadow, the Spider, and the Green Hornet. The Gray Seal strikes again!
Author: Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher: Copp, Clark
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Frank L. Packard
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
ISBN: 9789357274265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The further adventures of Jimmie Dale is an Interesting tale of a young man who broke into safes at night to rob people and return their money to them. He learned about this from a woman, who then sent him letters with directions on how to proceed. After some time, the same situation started to repeat itself. And when he eventually discovered who she was and fell in love, it seemed like the conclusion was overly sentimental. The story of the book starts with a character, Foo Sen kindly assigned him a bunk, and he reclined on it. Opium's sweet, sickening aroma filled the air, which was also dense with low, odd noises. And these sounds, when taken as a whole and coming from unknown sources, were like the ominous and sinister proof of some foul and grotesque presence; when they were broken down, they became the swish of hangings, the swish of slippered, shuffling feet, the stertorous breathing of a sleeper, the clink of coins as though men were playing, the tinkle of glass, the murmur of voices, the restless stir of!
Author: Thomas Keneally
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504026721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A tormented and humiliated mixed-race Australian man reaches his breaking point and takes terrifying revenge on his abusers in this critically acclaimed novel based on actual events In Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, Jimmie Blacksmith is desperate to figure out where he belongs. Half-Anglo and half-Aboriginal, he feels out of place in both cultures. Schooled in the ways of white society by a Protestant missionary, Jimmie forsakes tribal customs, adopts the white man’s religion, marries a white woman, and seeks a life of honest labor in a world Aborigines are normally barred from entering. But he will always be seen as less than human by the employers who cheat and exploit him, the fellow workers who deride him, and the wife who betrays him—and a man can only take so much. Driven by hopelessness, rage, and despair, Jimmie commits a series of savage and terrible acts of vengeance and becomes something he never thought he’d be: a murderer, a fugitive, and, ultimately, a legend. Based on shocking real-life events, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a powerful tale of racism, identity, intolerance, and murder from the celebrated bestselling author of Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally. This magnificent historical novel remains a stunning, provocative, and profoundly affecting reading experience.
Author: Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher: New York : A.L. Burt
ISBN:
Category : Cargo ships
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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"The Waratan, a small cargo steamer of some three thousand tons, lifted sluggishly, apathetically to the swells. The bit of sail rigged upon her gave her scarcely more than steerage-way. She carried no lights. Her engine-room hatch was carefully hooded with tarpaulins. From the depths below, muffled, there came the incessant clamor of hammers, of busy tools. The machinery was still. A mist hung in the light, following breeze, a wet mist that was almost a fine drizzle. There were no stars above. To starboard and port there was land-islands; many of them. They were there in the darkness-unseen. In the Malay Archipelago they are everywhere."--Chapter I.
Author: Frank L. Packard
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354755910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author: J.D. Davis
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
ISBN: 1612540759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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“Engaging . . . [a] biography of three men bound by blood, music, and a lifelong struggle to strike a balance between the sacred and secular.”—Publishers Weekly Three cousins, inseparably bonded through music. Each became a star; their story would become a legend. J. D. Davis’s enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family. Davis recreates the irresistible and life-changing power of music that surrounded the cousins as boys and shaped their engagingly distinct paths to fame. With three personal journeys set alongside important landmarks in pop-culture history, Davis presents a unique tale of American music centered on the trials, tribulations, and achievements of three men who remain truly Unconquered. A ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention for Biography “This is a good read, and not just for the hard-core fan. It will appeal to anyone interested in the dynamics of rock ’n’ roll, country music, and evangelical Christianity and what happens when the aesthetics and lifestyles of those three worlds collide. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “God, the devil, and everything in between. This book is a great representation of the duality plane on which we exist.'”—Leon Russell, legendary musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member “Unconquered clearly depicts the fascinating story of three great musical artists who were cousins in real life but icons in the world of music. Each man conquered life’s roadblocks to achieve his ultimate goals.”—Tom Schedler, former Louisiana Secretary of State
