It's Christmas Eve and Sexton Blake has one more client before the holiday. But when he discovers not only has him nemesis Madame Dulk returned but that millionaire patron Frank Ellaby is again missing revels must wait. A mad rogue, a mysterious princess and a venerable star-gazer face off against Blake. He partner Parisian Jules Gervaise disappears as events spin beyond Blake's control. Includes a new novel based on the original, a reprint the 1893 novel and illustrations, and an informative introduction.

Ambitious genius inventor Harry Harding, his boyhood friend Ted, British Fitzherbert and the irascible Silas are on airship adventure to find the fabled Silent City. On their way to the lost civilization seen only in mirages they are beset by natives and outlaws. Surviving by wits and luck the adventurers press forward. Will the inhabitants welcome them or destroy them? Volume includes a new story based on the original, a reprint of the 1909 novel and an informative introduction.

The adventures continue with inventor Frank Rude, Jr. and his motley crew in the Brave Old West. Join Denver Doll the Detective Queen, Bessie Little the Masked Rider, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, giant Charlie Bull, orphan PS and Solomon the Cat as they try to escape mysterious Altair Island, defeat the Knights of Placebo, outwit the Deserter Captain and raid the House of Skulls. With Frank's newest invention the Electric Horse at their side the preposterous escapades of the intrepid group rewrite history.

Fly with inventor Frank Rude, Jr. and his friends to New York City and their adventures as wild as the West. With his sister Inanna, cousin Charlie, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the mysterious Woman in Black, orphan PS and Ko-Ko the Monkey-Boy they face the enigmatic Flying Prairie Schooner and take on Wall Street, Chinatown, Little Italy and Five Points. Together they turn New York's gang history upside down and Frank creates his greatest invention yet.

Three loonies, Dick, Ned and Professor Benton, are completely unprepared for their trip to the Moon. They arrive just as a powerful earthquake destroys the capitol, are attacked by an alligator-octopus creature, hunt wild game on the Lunar plains, and almost get eaten by a sea monster. And that's just the first day Will the Moon king powerful Prince Moda prove to be their greatest friend or bitterest enemy? The volume also contains the original novel reprinted for the first time since 1896.

Young inventor Frank Rude, Jr. is confident that his airship Thunderbird will win the first world's first Transatlantic Race. All he and his crew including cousin Charlie, sister Inanna, detective Denver Doll, the Woman in Black and orphans PS and Kurt have to do is escape from a floating island and its giant snake guardian, defeat a group of Fenian terrorists, retrieve a precious religious artifact and rout an exotic animal smuggler. But after the airship is sabotaged in Oxford, to the rescue comes the mysterious Jean Ember Myth. Is the femme fatale there to help Frank, or to steal his...

Roaming the Dakota Territory's Black Hills, Black Diablo stirs up a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Foiling his schemes are a trio of odd heroes independently patrolling the area: mysterious mute Dumb Hercules the Destroyer, young Dare Devil Dick and his rowdy rangers and veteran border detective Skylark Sam, who loves to make an entrance gliding to earth on a batwing-like parachute. When Diablo's white and Indian outlaws attack the incoming wagon train of Colonel Owens and his party, the newcomer turns to the heroes to band together and save his kidnapped daughter, now held by Lakota...