COUNT ZARKA: a Romance

by William Magnay

Herr Galabin has been instructed by Gersdorff, the Minister, to find and bring back the missing prince Roel. Even thou the Minister hesitates to propose such a delicate and dangerous undertaking to Galabin, the Minister leaned back in his chair thoughtfully stroking his mouth with his long white fingers. " The mystery surrounding the extraordinary disappearance of Prince Roel of Rapsberg deepens every day. I say deepens, because, as you know, the agents of our Bureau, all the machinery which we have set working to elucidate it, have given us absolutely blank results. Had it been a mere piece of eccentricity on the Prince's part, the result, as has been hinted, of disappointment in a love affair, we must have found him, or at least some clue to the direction in which he had disappeared. A man, let alone a prince, cannot vanish from the face of the earth without leaving some trace."

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First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet (1855 - 8 January 1917) was an English baronet and novelist.

Magnay was a son of Sir William Magnay, 1st Baronet who was Lord Mayor of London. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1871. He was a prolific novelist, and published twenty-five novels before his death; a further three were brought out posthumously.

Magnay married in 1879, and was himself succeeded by his son Christopher Magnay, born 1884.
Works

Magnay's publications included:[1] [2]

The Red Chancellor
Poached Peerage
Honi Soit: an Original Play in Four Acts (1887)
The Fall of a Star, a novel (1897)
The Heiress of the Season (1899)
Count Zarka; a Romance (1903)
A Prince of Lovers; a Romance (1905)
The Master Spirit (1906)
The Amazing Duke : a Romance (1907)
The Players: a Tragi-comedy (1913)
The Hunt Ball Mystery (1918)

References

Works by or about Sir William Magnay, 2nd Baronet in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Works by William Magnay at Project Gutenberg

Obituary: p. 152, The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.
p. 387, The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for 1860: by Robert Dod. London: Whitaker and Co., 1860.
List of mystery novels at Mystery*File.

External links

Works by William Magnay at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about William Magnay at Internet Archive

Content from Wikipedia

Reviews

[grosbeak · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not a good book, but it does include a bizarre chapter where two very attractive ladies fight a thrilling topless duel in an underground armory, so it get a whole extra star.