Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew (Complete Full Version)

by Thomas Hanshew

Overview

An ex-cracksman turned Scotland Yard detective, Cleek's slim and faultlessly dressed form is topped by an india-rubber-like face, of which he has remarkable control. With the power to distort and transform his visage and mimic any mannerism he desires, Cleek (with the assistance of his cockney assistant "Dollops") makes a super natural detective!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013666238
Publisher:	Maran State Books
Publication date:	01/19/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	558 KB

About the Author

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American actor and
writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16
years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company.
Subsequently he played important roles with Clara Morris and
Adelaide Neilson. Later he was associated with a publishing house
in London, where he resided at the close of his life. He used,
among others, the pen name "Charlotte May Kingsley," and wrote more
than 150 novels. Hanshew's best-known creation was the consulting
detective Hamilton Cleek, known as "the man of the forty faces" for
his incredible skill at disguise. The central figure in dozens of
short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently
collected in a series of books, Cleek is based in Clarges Street,
London, where he is constantly consulted by Inspector Narkom of
Scotland Yard. Hamilton Cleek is laughably unrealistic, at least to
the modern reader, not only for his ability to impersonate anyone
but for his physical derring-do and his frequent melodramatic
encounters with Margot, "Queen of the Apaches", and her
partner-in-crime Merode.