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Publication Date

1892 - 1925
(years)

Genre

  • Detective and mystery stories (8) + -
  • Historical fiction (8) + -
  • Spy stories (5) + -
  • Bildungsromans (4) + -
  • American Revolutionary War stories (1) + -
  • Baseball stories (1) + -
  • Romance fiction (1) + -
  • Sports stories (1) + -
  • War stories (1) + -
  • Western stories (1) + -

Series

  • Pluck and luck (20) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (1) + -

Author

  • Wade, William (11) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (3) + -
  • Fenton, Ralph, Colonel (3) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (3) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (2) + -
  • Sherman, John (2) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (1) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (1) + -

Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (12) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (9) + -

Topic

  • Enemies (5) + -
  • Escapes (5) + -
  • Fathers and sons (4) + -
  • Conduct of life (3) + -
  • Friendship (3) + -
  • Rescues (3) + -
  • Secret societies (3) + -
  • Brigands and robbers (2) + -
  • Cossacks (2) + -
  • Courage (2) + -
  • Diamond mines and mining (2) + -
  • Exiles (2) + -
  • Heroes (2) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (2) + -
  • Masks (2) + -
  • Messengers (2) + -
  • Wolves (2) + -
  • Young men (2) + -
  • Apparitions (1) + -
  • Architects (1) + -
  • Arrest (1) + -
  • Attorney and client (1) + -
  • Awards (1) + -
  • Baseball players (1) + -
  • Battles (1) + -
  • Bodyguards (1) + -
  • Brides (1) + -
  • Brothers (1) + -
  • Bullying (1) + -
  • Business (1) + -
  • Canoes and canoeing (1) + -
  • Castles (1) + -
  • Church buildings (1) + -
  • Coal miners (1) + -
  • Combat (1) + -
  • Commerce (1) + -
  • Diamond miners (1) + -
  • Diamonds (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Doppelgängers (1) + -
  • Dueling (1) + -
  • Dwarfs (1) + -
  • Earthquakes (1) + -
  • Explosions (1) + -
  • Families (1) + -
  • Fires (1) + -
  • Germans (1) + -
  • Grocers (1) + -
  • Hippopotamidae (1) + -
  • Irish (1) + -
  • Irish Americans (1) + -
  • Liberty (1) + -
  • Mistaken identity (1) + -
  • Outlaws (1) + -
  • Physicians (1) + -
  • Poisoning (1) + -
  • Prisoners (1) + -
  • Queens (1) + -
  • Regattas (1) + -
  • Repentance (1) + -
  • Retribution (1) + -
  • Revenge (1) + -
  • River boats (1) + -
  • Robbery (1) + -
  • Robbery investigation (1) + -
  • Runaways (Fictitious characters) (1) + -
  • Schoolboys (1) + -
  • Shoe shiners (1) + -
  • Snow (1) + -
  • Stables (1) + -
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Character

  • Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 1818-1881 (2) + -
  • Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825 (1) + -
  • Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 (1) + -

Place

  • Russia (5) + -
  • France (2) + -
  • Ireland (2) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (2) + -
  • Africa, West (1) + -
  • Allegheny Mountains (1) + -
  • Louisiana (1) + -
  • Pennsylvania (1) + -
  • South Africa (1) + -
  • United States (1) + -

Format

  • Nickel weeklies (21) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (20) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (1) + -

Query

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Enabled Filters

  • (-) = Arnold, Allan

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The dark sons of Ireland, or, Plotting under the Shannon water
The boy messenger of Russia, or, The Czar's secret despatch bearer / by Allan Arnold
Shiner, the New-York bootblack, or, The secret of a boy's life
Cal Carter the boy lawyer, or, A fee of one million dollars
The boy sultan, or, Searching for a lost diamond mine
The blue mask, or, Fighting against the Czar
The young diamond hunters, or, Two runaway boys in treasure land
The boy with the steel mask, or, A face that was never seen
The young Rip van Winkle
The brand of Siberia, or, The boy tracker of the Steppes
The boy courier of Siberia, or, The league of the Russian prison mines
On the square, or, The only way to win
Dan and his double, or, The church under the river
The invisible twelve, an Irish romance of the present day
A haunted boy, or, The mad-house mystery
A poor Irish boy, or, Fighting his own way
The Nihilist's son, or, The spy of the third section
Three young guardsmen, or, The chosen champions of the queen
An Irish-American, or, Dan Redmond's adventures in search of his father
His father's son, or, The boy with a bad name
Through an unknown land, or, The boy canoeists of the Quanza

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