Project Gutenberg 2006-01-01 Public domain in the USA. 120 Vance, Louis Joseph 1879 1933 Fogarty, Thomas 1873 1938 Fogarty, Thomas J. The Black Bag Reading ease score: 72.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Leonard Johnson and PG Distributed Proofreading. "The Black Bag" by Louis Joseph Vance is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Philip Kirkwood, a young American artist who finds himself in a challenging situation after a disaster in San Francisco leaves him stranded and nearly penniless in London. Struggling with feelings of isolation and despair, Kirkwood encounters a series of unusual characters that set the stage for a tale filled with adventure and intrigue. The opening of the book presents Philip Kirkwood in his bleak London hotel room, reflecting on his misfortunes and contemplating the future. He is soon visited by Mr. Brentwick, an elder friend who expresses concern over Kirkwood’s plans to return to America. After their conversation, Kirkwood meets Mr. Calendar, an enigmatic figure who offers a dubious proposition involving a passage to America in exchange for a "trifling service." Unfazed by Calendar's odd behavior, Kirkwood navigates a mysterious encounter with a young woman named Dorothy Calendar, leading to a series of fraught events where danger lurks in unexpected corners and sets the tone for the adventures to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9779/9779-h/images/covers.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/9779/9779-h/images/covers.jpg en Adventure stories Mystery fiction Jewel thieves -- Fiction PS Text Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923 Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 658557 654859 2024-10-04T11:52:23.743131 2023-10-05T03:55:28.509030 text/html text/html 654189 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1598491 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1159234 2024-10-04T11:52:31.228118 application/epub+zip 1169366 2024-10-04T11:52:24.583134 application/epub+zip 322477 2024-10-04T11:52:24.108143 application/epub+zip 1347481 2024-10-04T11:52:36.594088 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1303817 2024-10-04T11:52:30.784133 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 448473 2022-09-05T05:19:20.303051 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 578616 578549 2024-10-04T11:52:22.095178 2023-10-05T03:55:27.000037 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 578493 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 232424 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 578484 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 232338 2021-01-02T08:42:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22730 2024-10-04T11:52:36.743069 application/rdf+xml 13549 2024-10-04T11:52:24.222136 image/jpeg 2105 2024-10-04T11:52:24.164133 image/jpeg 1082982 2024-10-04T11:52:23.825169 application/octet-stream application/zip 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 en.wikipedia