Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2011-09-12 Public domain in the USA. 76 Hill, Headon 1857 1927 Grainger, Francis Edward The Duke Decides Reading ease score: 67.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Darleen Dove, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Duke Decides" by Headon Hill is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Charles Hanbury, a former cavalry officer turned dry-goods clerk in New York City, who unexpectedly ascends to the title of Duke of Beaumanoir after a family tragedy. Thrust into a world of nobility and power, Hanbury finds himself entangled in a perilous scheme involving forged treasury bonds that might jeopardize his newly acquired status and life. The opening of the book introduces Charles Hanbury as he emerges from a grueling workday, revealing his disillusioned state after falling from grace. A chance encounter with a shady man named Jevons leads him into a dubious scheme requiring him to travel back to England to execute a forgery. Just as Hanbury grapples with this moral dilemma and the implications of his actions, he receives news of his inheritance, pushing him deeper into a web of crime and intrigue he wants to escape. As he navigates the complexities of his new identity as a duke, he must balance his past with the treachery that awaits him, setting the stage for a suspenseful and engaging narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37413/37413-rst/images/cover.jpg en Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Adventure stories PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 431200 431066 2024-10-15T17:48:58.955875 2023-09-16T09:45:45.329689 text/html text/html 432286 2011-09-12T17:25:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 599933 2011-09-12T17:25:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 679920 2024-10-15T17:49:14.753812 application/epub+zip 923618 2024-10-15T17:49:13.179834 application/pdf 477526 2024-10-15T17:49:03.108870 application/pdf 679954 2024-10-15T17:49:05.316896 application/epub+zip 253005 2024-10-15T17:49:00.622934 application/epub+zip 786796 2024-10-15T17:49:19.387803 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 739338 2024-10-15T17:49:10.869821 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 313499 2022-09-17T07:28:09.859086 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380231 2024-10-15T17:48:58.504908 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 380391 2011-09-12T17:26:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 146410 2011-09-12T17:26:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 378062 2011-09-12T17:26:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 146063 2011-09-12T17:26:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 378062 2011-09-12T17:26:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 146006 2011-09-12T17:26:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 27460 2024-10-15T17:49:19.537786 application/rdf+xml 383375 383369 2024-10-15T17:48:57.281878 2023-09-16T09:45:44.965707 text/x-rst text/x-rst 383371 2011-09-12T17:25:42 text/x-rst 591808 2011-09-12T17:25:42 text/x-rst application/zip 15859 2024-10-15T17:49:03.769867 image/jpeg 2645 2024-10-15T17:49:03.451876 image/jpeg 601266 2024-10-15T17:48:59.004880 application/octet-stream application/zip de.wikipedia