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If you're one of those readers who always finds themselves rooting for the bad guy, you'll relish every sentence of Guy Newell Boothby's A Bid for Fortune. Dr. Nikola is a brilliant master criminal who is on a lifelong quest to achieve immortality -- and to accumulate as much power and wealth as he can along the way. Making copious use of his formidable occult powers, Nikola will stop at nothing to achieve his nefarious ends.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- PART I
- Prologue - Dr. Nikola
- Chapter I - I Determine to Take a Holiday—Sydney, and What Befel Me There
- Chapter II - London
- Chapter III - I Visit My Relations
- Chapter IV - I Save an Important Life
- Chapter V - Mystery
- Chapter VI - I Meet Dr. Nikola Again
- Chapter VII - Port Said, and What Befel Us There
- Chapter VIII - Our Imprisonment and Attempt at Escape
- Chapter IX - Dr. Nikola Permits Us a Free Passage
- PART II
- Chapter I - We Reach Australia, and the Result
- Chapter II - On the Trail
- Chapter III - Lord Beckenham's Story
- Chapter IV - Following up a Clue
- Chapter V - The Islands, and What We Found There
- Chapter VI - Conclusion
