Хищники Аляски

forgotten masterpieces of adventure literature" Rex Beach, Gaston Leroux, Philips Oppenheim The collection of the Forgotten Masterpieces of Adventure Literature series opens with Rex Beach's action-packed novel Predators of Alaska. Its main characters are gold seekers. They are forced to wage a merciless fight against corrupt officials who are completely dependent on the adventurer Mac Namara. The second work of the collection - "The Curse of Eliphas" by Gaston Leroux describes the intricacies of the circumstances associated with the unexpected and mysterious death of several applicants for a vacant seat at the French Academy. The book concludes with the novel "Prince Mayo", the author of which Philips Oppenheim is considered to be the founder of the genre of political detective story.