Louis Joseph Vance

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Louis Joseph Vance


Born
in Washington, D.C., The United States
September 19, 1879

Died
December 16, 1933

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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 g
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Average rating: 3.65 · 384 ratings · 57 reviews · 183 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Lone Wolf

3.66 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1914 — 827 editions
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The False Faces (Lone Wolf #2)

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3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1918
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Alias the Lone Wolf

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3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1921 — 129 editions
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Red Masquerade (Lone Wolf B...

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3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1921 — 73 editions
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The brass bowl. With Illus.

3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1907 — 120 editions
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The Lone Wolf Series: The L...

4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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The Black Bag

2.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1908 — 111 editions
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The Bandbox (1912)

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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1912 — 85 editions
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The Fortune Hunter

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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1910 — 121 editions
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The Lone Wolf Returns

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1923 — 25 editions
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More books by Louis Joseph Vance…
The Lone Wolf The False Faces Alias the Lone Wolf Red Masquerade The Lone Wolf Returns The Lone Wolf's Son Encore the Lone Wolf
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“First published in its entirety in the March 1914 edition of Munsey’s Magazine, this novel tells the tale of a small boy that is abandoned in a Parisian hotel and falls under the spell of a crook. The crook takes to him and teaches him the ways of his business and soon the student, who has adopted the name Michael Lanyard, becomes greater than his master. After a job in London, which nets him a valuable jewel and aeroplane plans that a German spy had stolen from a French inventor, Lanyard falls in love and decides to renounce his ways. But ‘The Pack’ — an organised crime gang — wants the Lone Wolf to join them and won’t take no for an answer…”
Louis Joseph Vance, Delphi Collected Works of Louis Joseph Vance US

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