First and Only Weekly Webzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs Since 1996 ~ 4,000 Web Pages in Archive Presents THE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS LIBRARY Over 1,100 Volumes Collected From 1875 Through 1950 The surviving editions are held in trust in the archive of grandson Danton Burroughs Collated and Researched by Bill Hillman Shelf: C4 Octavus Roy Cohen Polished Ebony 1919 Ayer Co or 1923 Dodd, Meade, Co. with illustrations by H. Weston Taylor ~ A parody of Black life with exaggerated dialects. Other: Assorted Chocolates The Other Tomorrow Midnight 1921 eBook Text: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/1/0/4/11043/11043.txt Colliers Dec. 25, 1943: part 3 of "Romance in the First Degree" Characters : Florian Slappey: Created by Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) Florian Slappey Goes Abroad (1928) and Florian Slappey (1938) plus many short stories Films The Big Gamble (1931) Writer The Kaiser's Shadow The Eyes of Mystery 1918 Based on the short story "The House in the Mist" by Octavus Roy Cohen, John U. Giesy in People's Magazine (10 Aug 1917). Summary: Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and taken to his ancestral Southern home. Uncle Quincy sends young Jack Carrington to investigate and goes into hiding, leading the Carmichaels to believe he is dead. Carma is at first suspicious of Jack's intentions but soon learns that the man who abducted her is actually an impostor who had murdered her father and now lives in the plantation with a group of thugs. Despite "Roger's" attempts to take Jack's life, the young man incites the thugs against him and they attack the house. Uncle Quincy arrives with a posse, and after their rescue, Carma and Jack embrace. | |
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