Delphi Collected Works of Louis Joseph Vance US

by Louis Joseph Vance, Delphi Classics (Editor)

The early twentieth-century American novelist Louis Joseph Vance created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as ‘The Lone Wolf’. His sensation thrillers and whirlwind adventure stories were well-regarded for their imaginative, gruesome and engaging qualities. He published many bestselling books and established his own motion picture production company, whose films were distributed by Paramount Pictures. Many of his works were adapted for the silver screen, winning countless new admirers across the world. This eBook presents Vance’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time and informative introductions. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Vance’s life and works* Concise introductions to the major novels* Five ‘Lone Wolf’ novels* Features 25 novels in total, with individual contents tables* Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresPlease due to US copyright restrictions, post-1925 works cannot appear in this edition (including three ‘Lone Wolf’ novels). When new texts become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free Lone Wolf SeriesThe Lone Wolf (1914)The False Faces (1918)Alias the Lone Wolf (1921)Red Masquerade (1921)The Lone Wolf Returns (1923)The NovelsTerence O’Rourke, Gentleman Adventurer (1905)The Private War (1906)The Brass Bowl (1907)The Black Bag (1908)The Bronze Bell (1909)The Pool of Flame (1909)Fortune Hunter (1910)No Man’s Land (1910)Cynthia of the Minute (1911)The Bandbox (1912)The Destroying Angel (1912)The Day of Days (1913)Joan Thursday (1913)The Trey O’ Hearts (1914)Nobody (1915)Sheep’s Clothing (1915)The Dark Mirror (1920)Linda Lee Incorporated (1922)Baroque (1923)Road to En-Dor (1925)

7053 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 4, 2021

About the author

Louis Joseph Vance was a novelist educated in the preparatory department of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He wrote short stories and verse after 1901, then composed many popular novels. His character "Michael Lanyard", also known as "The Lone Wolf", was featured in eight books and 24 films between 1914 and 1949, and also appeared in radio and television series.

Vance was separated from his wife (whom he married in 1898 and by whom he had a son the next year) when he was found dead in a burnt armchair inside his New York apartment; a cigarette had ignited some benzene (used for cleaning his clothes or for his broken jaw) that he had on his body and he was intoxicated at the time. He had recently returned from the West Indies, where he gathered material for a new book. The death was ruled accidental.