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_aFerguson, W. B. M. _q(William Blair Morton), _d1882-1967 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Black Company |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-12-10 | ||
| 508 | _aTim Miller, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _a"The Black Company" by W. B. M. Ferguson is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. Told in a witty first person, it follows ex–Princeton star and reluctant heir Peter Lawton—posing as chauffeur Henry Joyce—as he battles alcoholism, slips into a new life serving the imperious Theodore Varney and his perceptive niece Brenda, and stumbles onto a shadowy cabal whose chess-coded signals hint at a larger conspiracy. The opening of the novel traces a chaotic night that begins with a drunken dare and a wild solo drive from Princeton, during which the narrator clashes with a bronze-faced stranger and a young woman in a luxury car, and is then knocked out and robbed by a mysterious man. Awakening at a farmer’s, he seizes a chance to assume the identity of “Henry Joyce,” is hired as Brenda’s uncle’s chauffeur, and promises her he will stay sober. A newspaper report convinces the world that “Peter Lawton” died in a wreck, prompting him to remain “dead” and fight his addiction while working in secrecy. He meets the caustic, chess-obsessed Varney, senses the old man’s hidden vice, crosses paths with the slippery Arnold Frean, and receives a cryptic note that leads to a roadhouse rendezvous with a lifeless-eyed contact, Corby, who toasts “The Black Company” in buttermilk and reveals Frean as a new recruit under watch; returning home, the narrator earns Brenda’s trust and agrees to let Varney win at chess. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Chelsea House, 1924 |
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| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aLove stories | ||
| 653 | _aCriminals -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMillionaires -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aUnited States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aTemperance -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aGangs -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aWagers -- Fiction | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/blackcompanyamys00ferg/page/n5/mode/2up | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77438 |
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