Masterpieces of Adventure

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Certain, sudden death, by T. J. Waldeck. [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W), by Sir A. C. Doyle. From coffin to Rolls-Royce, by G. F. Lamb. Monsieur Beaucaire, by B. Tarkington. The gold bug, by E. A. Poe. Leiningen versus the ants, by C. Stephenson. The unstoppable man, by M. Gilbert. [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W), by R. Connell.

subjects: Fiction,  Hunting,  Islands,  survival of the fittest,  animal trapping,  trapping pits,  knouts,  hunting dogs,  Cossacks,  deaf-mutes,  snow leopards,  jaguars,  Juvenile fiction,  Hunting stories,  Juvenile works,  Human hunting,  Big game sport,  Travel fiction,  short stories,  Adventure stories,  carbuncles,  Christmas dinners,  commissionaires,  Private investigators

People: Sanger Rainsford,  General Zaroff,  Whitney,  Ivan,  The Great White Czar,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Baker Street Irregulars,  Countess of Morcar,  John Horner,  Peterson,  Henry Baker,  Breckinridge,  Mrs Oakshott,  Catherine Cusack,  James Ryder,  Mrs. Oakshott

Places: Caribbean,  Amazon rainforest,  Ship-Trap Island,  Tibet,  England,  London,  221B Baker Street,  Alpha Inn,  British Museum,  Covent Garden,  Brixton

Times: 20th century