Robert Barr (1) (1849–1912)
Auteur de The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Robert Barr, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
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Œuvres de Robert Barr
The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs 4 exemplaires
Vintage Mysteries - 70 Stories in One Volume (Thriller Classics Collection): The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower, The… (2017) 2 exemplaires
The Tempestuous Petticoat 2 exemplaires
Within an Ace of the End of the World {short story} 2 exemplaires
The Fear of It [short story] 2 exemplaires
Lord Stranleigh, Millonario 1 exemplaire
The Conspiracy (in Short Modern Plays) 1 exemplaire
Detective Galbraith: The King of Diamonds & The Midas Touch: 2 BBC Radio Crime Dramas (2022) 1 exemplaire
The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ Rival Detectives: 16 BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramas (2021) 1 exemplaire
"The Man Who Was Not On the Passenger List" 1 exemplaire
Classic Detective Stories, Volume 1 1 exemplaire
"The Terrible Experience of Plodkins" 1 exemplaire
"How the Captain Got His Steamer Out" 1 exemplaire
"A Story for the Reformation of Poker Players" 1 exemplaire
In The Grip Of The Green Demon 1 exemplaire
The Doom of London 1 exemplaire
The Hour and the Man 1 exemplaire
Grote schoonmaak 1 exemplaire
Woman in a thousand 1 exemplaire
Stranleigh's millions 1 exemplaire
"Share and Share Alike" 1 exemplaire
"A Case of Fever" 1 exemplaire
"An International Row" 1 exemplaire
"A Ladies' Man" 1 exemplaire
"Miss McMillan" 1 exemplaire
"Mrs. Tremain" 1 exemplaire
"My Stowaway" 1 exemplaire
"The Purser's Story" 1 exemplaire
Contos de detectives. Os rivais de Sherlock Holmes — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Contributeur — 173 exemplaires
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (2011) — Contributeur — 138 exemplaires
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contributeur — 107 exemplaires
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 (1968) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 52 exemplaires
The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction (2010) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century (1983) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Barr, Robert
- Autres noms
- Hoe, Cottrel
Sharp, Luke - Date de naissance
- 1849-09-16
- Date de décès
- 1912-10-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK (birth)
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Woldingham, Surrey, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, England, UK - Professions
- journalist
editor
writer
humorist - Relations
- Jerome, Jerome K. (Business partner)
- Organisations
- The Idler
Membres
Critiques
The setting is late medieval but not precisely historical, as the hero is "Roland, only son of the emperor" and as far as I know there was no such person. During a period when robber barons are making trade along the Rhine impossible, Roland, who has been incognito as a young sword maker, offers to lead 20 young craftsmen he has trained in swordsmanship in fighting their way down the Rhine from Frankfort to Cologne escorting a barge full of merchandise.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 65
- Aussi par
- 41
- Membres
- 352
- Popularité
- #67,994
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 326
- Langues
- 5
Two men who are friends and business associates are on a ship from America/Canada to Britain. They have just come from a top-secret business investigation. An American newspaper is anxious to get the details, so they send their most charming and wily female reporter. She is the first woman who intervenes.
Meanwhile, the two men have in mind not only their original job, but a new business opportunity that has popped up that they are eager to take advantage of, but in which they get foiled over and over, until another woman intervenes.
Not bad, and even exciting in bits, but also not terribly memorable.… (plus d'informations)