"In the short story ""Flashman and the Tiger"" by George MacDonald Fraser, Fraser's anti-hero Harry Flashman sets out to murder Moran, who is blackmailing Flashman's granddaughter. He trails Moran to Camden House, but instead witnesses Holmes capture him. The Adventure of the Empty House ""The Adventure of the Empty House"", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of"
"Arthur Conan Doyle which is very loosely based on the historical company. Unlike the historical company, the main focus of the action is in Spain and the White Company led by Bertrand de Guesclin to Spain in 1366 was also an inspiration. The book was popular as an adventure novel, its well-chosen title raising the profile of the historical company among a lay readership. White Company The White Company () was a 14th-century English mercenary Company of Adventure (), led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1363 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John"
"White Company The White Company () was a 14th-century English mercenary Company of Adventure (), led from its arrival in Italy in 1361 to 1363 by the German Albert Sterz and later by the Englishman John Hawkwood. Although the White Company is the name by which it is popularly known, it was initially called the Great Company of English and Germans and would later often be referred to as the English Company (It: ""Compagnia degli Inglesi"", L: ""Societas Angliciis""). No medieval source explains the company's name. The traditional view is that it is a reference to the brightly polished armour"
"most famous work ""The Iron Pirate"" was a best-seller during the early 1890s and it launched his prolific writing career (see below). It was the story of a great gas-driven iron-clad, which could outpace the navies of the world and terrorised the Atlantic Ocean. Other notable works included ""Captain Black"" (1911). During January 1908, Pemberton had a story entitled ""Wheels of Anarchy"" published by Cassell & Company (London). This story was based upon notes that were written by his friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson shortly before he died in January 1907. It is an adventure tale about anarchists and assassins that"
"in ""Cornhill Magazine"". Additionally, the book is considered a companion to Doyle's later work ""Sir Nigel"", which explores the early campaigns of Sir Nigel Loring and Samkin Aylward. The novel is relatively unknown today, though it was very popular up through the Second World War. In fact, Doyle himself regarded this and his other historical novels more highly than the Sherlock Holmes adventures for which he is mainly remembered. The ""White Company"" of the title is a free company of archers, led by one of the main characters. The name is taken from a real-life 14th-century Italian mercenary company, led"
"Free Companies would often specialize in forms of combat that required longer periods of training that was not available in the form of a mobilized militia. The White Company commanded by Sir John Hawkwood is the best known English Free Company of the 14th century. Between the 13th and 17th Century the Gallowglass fought within the Islands of Britain and also mainland Europe. A Welshman Owain Lawgoch (Owain of the Red Hand) formed a free company and fought for the French against the English during the Hundred Years' War, before being assassinated by a Scot by the name of Jon"
"The Black Company (novel) The Black Company, released in May 1984, is the first novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The book combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it describes the dealings of an elite mercenary unit—the Black Company—with the Lady, ruler of the Northern Empire. The name might have been inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The White Company"", depicting the adventures of a free company of archers during the Hundred Years' War. The name might also have been inspired by the Black Army of Hungary, a force of full-time mercenaries who fought for"
"now led by Croaker as the highest ranked surviving officer, sneak away, taking the not-unwilling Lady with them. The White Rose (Cook novel) The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. Centuries in the past, the Dominator and his wife, the Lady, (both supremely skilled in the art of magic), had founded an empire legendary for evil. They were overthrown by a"
"served as the inspiration for T. E. D. Klein's novel ""The Ceremonies"" and may have been an influence on the plot of Guillermo del Toro's film ""Pan's Labyrinth"". The White People ""The White People"" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in ""Horlick's Magazine"", edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection ""The House of Souls"" (1906). The story has since been described as an important example of horror fiction, influencing generations of later writers. A discussion between two men on the"
"Jack London John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include ""The Call of the Wild"" and ""White Fang"", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories ""To Build a Fire"", ""An Odyssey"
"the Empire. The Black Company (novel) The Black Company, released in May 1984, is the first novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The book combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it describes the dealings of an elite mercenary unit—the Black Company—with the Lady, ruler of the Northern Empire. The name might have been inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's ""The White Company"", depicting the adventures of a free company of archers during the Hundred Years' War. The name might also have been inspired by the Black Army of Hungary, a force of full-time mercenaries who"
"Collection Jack London John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include ""The Call of the Wild"" and ""White Fang"", both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories ""To Build a Fire"", ""An"
"(1883), ""A Mere Interlude"" (1885) and ""Barbara of the House of Grebe"" (1890). Rudyard Kipling published short story collections for grown-ups, e.g. ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" (1888), as well as for children, e.g. ""The Jungle Book"" (1894). In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle brought the detective story to a new height with ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". H.G. Wells wrote his first science fiction stories in the 1880s. One of his best known is ""The Country of the Blind"" (1904). In the United States, Herman Melville published his story collection ""The Piazza Tales"" in 1856. ""The Celebrated Jumping Frog of"
"Rider Haggard published ""King Solomon's Mines"". In 1886 Emily Dickinson died. Leo Tolstoy published ""The Death of Ivan Ilyich"". In 1887 Oscar Wilde published ""The Canterville Ghost"". Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta ""Ruddigore, or, The Witch's Curse"" was staged. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first Sherlock Holmes story and the beginning of crime fiction as a genre. H. Rider Haggard published ""She"" first serialized in ""The Graphic"" from October 1886 to January 1887. In 1888 Oscar Wilde published ""The Happy Prince and Other Stories"". Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", or, ""The Merryman"
"Glen Cook Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of science fiction and contemporary fantasy, known for ""The Black Company"" and ""Garrett P.I."" fantasy series. Cook was born in New York City. Cook spent time in the United States Navy and later worked his way through college. Cook began to write in earnest while working for General Motors at an auto assembly plant in a job which was ""hard to learn, but [involved] almost no mental effort"", writing as many as three books per year. Cook wrote ""The Black Company"", a novel published by Tor Fantasy"
"The Black Company The Black Company is a series of dark fantasy books written by American author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history. Green Ronin Publishing published ""The Black Company"" role-playing game in 2004. ""Tides Elba"", ""Smelling Danger"", and ""Bone Candy"" were collected and reworked into ""Port of Shadows"". The series follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatovar, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history."
"The White Rose (Cook novel) The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history. Centuries in the past, the Dominator and his wife, the Lady, (both supremely skilled in the art of magic), had founded an empire legendary for evil. They were overthrown by a rebellion led by the White Rose, but even in defeat, they remained too powerful to be killed; the"
"The Black Spectacles The Black Spectacles (published in the US as ""The Problem of the Green Capsule"", with the subtitle ""Being the psychologist's murder case""), first published in 1939, is a detective story by John Dickson Carr featuring his series detective Gideon Fell. This novel is a mystery of the type known as a locked room mystery (or more properly a subset of the locked room mystery called an ""impossible crime"" story). In the small English village of Sodbury Cross, pretty Marjorie Wills is suspected of having poisoned some chocolates in the local tobacco-and-sweet shop, using a method pioneered by"
"was the founder of the Canto family in Portugal, which is believed to have later spread through Madeira and the Azores (). John Chandos' herald, known as Chandos Herald, wrote a significant poem entitled, ""The Life of the Black Prince"". The poem details many of the Prince's exploits in the Hundred Years' War, including the Castilian civil war, the battle of Crecy, and the battle of Poitiers (though these last two only briefly). John Chandos is one of the characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel ""The White Company"" (1892) and in his later novel ""Sir Nigel"". John Chandos appears"
"see them pitted against Nazis and common criminals, enjoying lots of sex along the way. Biggles James Bigglesworth, nicknamed ""Biggles"", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the ""Biggles"" series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles made his first appearance in the story ""The White Fokker"", published in the first issue of ""Popular Flying"" magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, ""The Camels Are Coming"" (both 1932). Johns continued to write ""Biggles books"" until his death in 1968, the series eventually spanning nearly"
"The White People ""The White People"" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in 1904 in ""Horlick's Magazine"", edited by Machen's friend A. E. Waite, then reprinted in Machen's collection ""The House of Souls"" (1906). The story has since been described as an important example of horror fiction, influencing generations of later writers. A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in which she describes in ingenuous, evocative"
"close order, advancing with two men-at-arms holding the same lance at a slow pace while shouting loud battle cries. The longbowmen apparently drew up behind. This is not to suggest that they abandoned mounted combat altogether. The Battle of Castagnaro was won by a cavalry charge. The White Company was involved in the following battles The Company was also involved in a large number of skirmishes, sieges and attacks on towns. Less honourable was their participation in the Massacre at Cesena in 1377, when several thousand civilians were killed. ""The White Company"" is the title of a novel by Sir"
"Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are ""The Woman in White"" (1859), ""No Name"" (1862), ""Armadale"" (1866) and ""The Moonstone"" (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, ""Antonina,"" was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became"
"Conan Doyle, known for his Sherlock Holmes books, is under a large tree in the churchyard. Sir Arthur was originally buried in a vertical position in Crowborough and re-interred in Minstead by the family of his deceased first wife after the death of the second Lady Conan Doyle. Minstead figured prominently in Conan Doyle's historical novel ""The White Company."" Alleyne Edricson, the main character is the second son of the late Franklin of Minstead and brother of the Simon, Socman of Minstead. Minstead Hall was originally called the Hut and comprised two munition huts left over from the 1st World"
"Carroll John Daly Carroll John Daly (September 14, 1889 – January 16, 1958) was a writer of crime fiction. Daly has been credited with creating the first hard-boiled story, ""The False Burton Combs"", published in ""Black Mask"" magazine in December 1922, followed closely by ""It's All in the Game"" (""Black Mask"", April 1923) and the PI story ""Three Gun Terry"" (""Black Mask"", May 1923). Daly's private detective Race Williams first appeared in ""Knights of the Open Palm"", an anti-Ku Klux Klan story. ""Knights of the Open Palm"" was published June 1, 1923, in ""Black Mask"", predating the October 1923 debut"
"The White Ship (story) ""The White Ship"" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in ""The United Amateur"" (Volume 19) #2, November 1919. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth. They travel past Zar, a"
"Herbert Asbury Herbert Asbury (September 1, 1889 – February 24, 1963) was an American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries, such as ""Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld"", ""The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld"" and ""The Gangs of New York"". ""The Gangs of New York"" was later adapted for film as Martin Scorsese's ""Gangs of New York"" (2002). However, the film adaptation of ""Gangs of New York"" was so loose that ""Gangs"" was nominated for ""Best Original Screenplay"" rather than"
"with several crime-thriller screenplays for Columbia Pictures, which he co-wrote with Fred Niblo Jr (1903–1973): Herbert Asbury Herbert Asbury (September 1, 1889 – February 24, 1963) was an American journalist and writer best known for his books detailing crime during the 19th and early-20th centuries, such as ""Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld"", ""The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld"" and ""The Gangs of New York"". ""The Gangs of New York"" was later adapted for film as Martin Scorsese's ""Gangs of New York"" (2002). However, the film adaptation of ""Gangs of"
"John"" (1910). Novels featuring a gentleman adventurer were popular between the wars, exemplified by the series of H. C. McNeile with ""Bulldog Drummond"" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias ""The Saint"". The medieval scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories in contemporary settings. This was called 'the Golden Age of Detective Fiction'. Dame Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Other female writers dubbed ""Queens of crime"" include Dorothy L. Sayers"
"Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: ""Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and"
"novel ""The Woman in White"" was published in 1860, while ""The Moonstone"" (1868) is often thought to be his masterpiece. French author Émile Gaboriau's ""Monsieur Lecoq"" (1868) laid the groundwork for the methodical, scientifically minded detective. The evolution of locked room mysteries was one of the landmarks in the history of crime fiction. The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle are said to have been singularly responsible for the huge popularity in this genre. A precursor was Paul Féval, whose series ""Les Habits Noirs"" (1862–67) features Scotland Yard detectives and criminal conspiracies. The best-selling crime novel of the nineteenth"
"as ""Marie Celeste"" has become more common in everyday use than the original form. Between 1888 and 1906, Doyle wrote seven historical novels, which he and many critics regarded as his best work. He also authored nine other novels, and later in his career (1912–29) five narratives, two of novel length, featuring the irascible scientist Professor Challenger. The Challenger stories include what is probably his best-known work after the Holmes oeuvre, ""The Lost World"". His historical novels include ""Sir Nigel"" and its follow-up ""The White Company"", set in the Middle Ages. He was a prolific author of short stories, including"
"Woman in White"" and ""The Moonstone"" share an unusual narrative structure, somewhat resembling an epistolary novel, in which different portions of the book have different narrators, each with a distinct narrative voice. ""Armadale"" has this to a lesser extent through the correspondence between some characters. Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are ""The Woman in White"" (1859), ""No Name"" (1862), ""Armadale"" (1866) and ""The Moonstone"" (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born into the family of painter"