A Prince Of Swindlers
by Guy Boothby
Meet Simon Karn, a thieving gentleman who precedes both E. W. Hornung's "A. J. Raffles" and Maurice LeBlanc's "Arsene Lupin." The British governor first meets Carne while traveling in India. He invites a fascinated, reclusive hunchback scientist to London, no doubt that his guest is actually an adventurer and a master of disguise. Carne, with the help of his loyal butler Belton, starts the crime by stealing London's richest citizens and then making fools out of them by posing as a detective investigating the thefts.
