Books with author Edmond About

On the 3d of July, about six o'clock in the morning, I was watering my flowers. A young man entered the garden. He was blonde, beardless; he wore a German cap and sported gold spectacles. A long, loose woolen coat, or paletot, drooped in a melancholy way around his form, like a sail around a mast in a calm. He wore no gloves; his tan leather shoes had such large soles, that the foot was surrounded by a narrow flange. In the breast-pocket of his paletot, a huge porcelain pipe bulged half-way out. I did not stop to ask myself whether this young man was a student in the German Universities; I put down my watering-pot, and saluted him with: "Guten Morgen!"

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Herman Shultz is sent to Greece to collect samples for the London Botanical Society. Once there he learns about a group of thieves that work under The Mountain King, Hadgi Stavros. The Mountain King has quite a setup and is in league with the government officials and business owners. He will kidnap people (tourists especially) and hold them for ransom. He allows them to write letters to friends, family, whoever has the money and then he collects the ransom. If the ransom does not arrive, he kills the prisoners. Mr. Shultz is kidnapped and when Stavros finds out he is a man of Science- well he sets his ransom at an astronomical price. Shultz tries to escape and then the twist comes in.