Ten Cent Claude Duval Novels No. 11 [circa 1870] ("Luke, The Swell: An Exciting Story Of Life, Love And Intrigue")
Ten Cent Claude Duval Novels No. 11 [circa 1870]. "Luke, The Swell: An Exciting Story Of Life, Love And Intrigue" by "The Author Of ''PAUL CLIFFORD,'' "DUVAL AND THE GHOST," "CLAUDE'S STRATAGEM," ETC., ETC." Twenty-five volumes in this dime novel series were published by Norman L. Munro & Company in the early 1870s. Claude Duval (or D u Vall , 1643 – 21 January 1670) was a French-born gentleman highwayman in Restoration England , as notorious for his daring robberies as he was for his gallantry. According to popular legend, he abhorred violence, showing courtesy to his victims and chivalry to their womenfolk, thus spawning the myth of the romantic highwayman, as taken up by many novelists and playwrights.
- Series
- Ten Cent Claude Duval Novels
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery and detective
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Pulp mystery
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive