One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

Description

Louis Tracy was one of the most popular novelists in the English-speaking world in 1912, a British newspaperman who produced best-sellers at a gallop, and One Wonderful Night shows exactly why. Its hero, John Delancey Curtis, is an American railway engineer coming home from years in the Far East. On his first evening in New York he is standing outside his hotel when a man is stabbed and dies within minutes; in the confusion Curtis is handed the wrong overcoat, and in its pocket is a marriage licence made out that very day. It names a Frenchman — and Lady Hermione Grandison, a runaway English heiress.

A night that keeps giving

• A murder, a chase through the midnight streets by taxi.
• An improvised wedding and a banquet that ends with the Chief of Police as guest of honour.
• A father, a rival count, and a misunderstanding engineered to break the couple apart.

Witty, breathless and faintly impossible in the way only the best Edwardian entertainment manages, the novel compresses most of its action into a single unforgettable evening and was itself made into a popular silent motion picture.

About This DodaBooks Edition

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