A complete issue · 86 pages · 1888
The Argosy, Vol. 45
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1888 — all 86 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 86 pages · 1888
This serial installment by Mrs. Henry Wood (author of East Lynne) follows Charles Strange and his circle through two dramatic sequences. In the first, Charles returns from Paris to learn his friend Tom Heriot faces legal troubles. After Tom is arrested on charges involving forged bills—accommodation bills placed into circulation with a forged signature—he claims innocence, blaming his manipulation by an accomplice named Anstey who escaped prosecution. Despite the efforts of Serjeant Stillingfar and Charles's desperate intervention, Tom is convicted at the Old Bailey and sentenced to transportation for seven years to Botany Bay aboard the transport vessel Vengeance. The narrative then shifts to October, where Charles's acquaintance Arnold Ravensworth and his wife encounter Charles's other friend, Lady Level (formerly Blanche Heriot), unexpectedly at a small Rhine village inn, providing a moment of surprising reunion for exiles from England.
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