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In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories (1892) by: Robert Barr

In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories (1892) by: Robert Barr

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ISBN10: 1978302851
ISBN13: 9781978302853
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 15 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Robert Barr (16 September 1849 - 21 October 1912[1]) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories Thirteen short stories by one of the most famous writers in his day. Robert Barr was a British Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland. In London of the 1890s Barr became a more prolific author - publishing a book a year - and was familiar with many of the best selling authors of his day, including Bret Harte and Stephen Crane. Most of his literary output was of the crime genre, then quite in vogue. When Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were becoming well known, Barr published in the Idler the first Holmes parody, The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs (1892), a spoof that was continued a decade later in another Barr story,

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