Author:Achmed Abdullah
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American writer of mystery, crime, and adventure pulps. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer |
WorksEdit
NovelsEdit
- Bucking the Tiger (1917)
- The Man on Horseback (1919)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (transcription project)
- The Mating of the Blades (1920)
- The Remittance-Woman (1924)
- The Swinging Caravan (1911)
- The Red Stain (1915)
- The Blue-Eyed Manchu (1916)
- The Trail of the Beast (1919)
- The Ten-foot Chain, or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (1920) (with Max Brand, E. K. Means, P. P. Sheehan) (start transcription)
- The Benefactor's Club (1921)
- Night Drums (1921)
- Shackled (1924) (start transcription)
- A Buccaneer in Spats (1924)
- A Wild Goose of Limerick (1926)
- The Year of the Wood Dragon (1926)
- Steel and Jade (1927)
- Dreamers of Empire (1929) (with T. Compton Pakenham)
- Broadway Interlude (1929) (with Faith Baldwin)
- They Were So Young (1929)
- Broadway Sensation (1930) (with Faith Baldwin)
- The Bungalow on the Roof (1931)
- The Lady in the Veil a.k.a The Veiled Woman (1931)
- Girl on the Make (1932) (with Faith Baldwin)
- A Romantic Young Man (1932)
- Fighting Through (1933)
- The Flower of the Gods (1936) (with Fulton Oursler)
- Deliver Us from Evil (1939)
Short stories and collectionsEdit
- Fear and Other Stories (1919? 2006?) PG (Au.)
- Fear — The Incubus — Pro Patria — Pell Street Blues — Mystery of the Talking Idols — The Charmed Life — A Simple Act of Piety
- The Honourable Gentleman and Others (1919)
- Wings: Tales of the Psychic (1920) (transcription project)
- Wings — Disappointment — To Be Accounted For — Tartar — Renunciation — Krishnavana, Destroyer of Souls — That Haunting Thing — The Man Who Lost Caste — Silence — Khizr — Fear — Light
- Alien Souls (1922)
Short stories from magazinesEdit
- "Strength of the Little Thin Thread" (1912, Collier's) [included in Alien Souls]
- "Feud" (1916, The Century Magazine)
- "The Fetish of Remorse" (1916, All-Story Weekly)
- "The Home-Coming" (1917, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls]
- "After Youth" (1918, The Forum)
- "Bibi—His Mark" (1918 All-Story Weekly) (novelette)
- "Cobbler's Wax" (1918, Century) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
- "The Dance on the Hill" (1918, Harper's Monthly) [included in Alien Souls]
- "Thingumajee Thingumabob Jones" (1918, McClure's)
- "The Yellow Wife" (1919, Munsey's)
- "Fear" (1919, Detective Story)
- "A Full House" (1919, People's magazine)
- "The Incubus" (1920, The Blue Book)
- "Lucifer" (1923, Everybody's)
- "Once It Happened in the Black Tents" (1923, McCall's )
- "Pro Patria" (1918, People's Favourite, )
- "A Simple Act of Piety" (1918, All Story Weekly) [included in The Honourable Gentleman and Others]
- "The Adventures of Million Dollar Smith" (1925 June-Aug, Everybody's) (3-part novelette / linked short stories)
- "The First Hundred Thousand — The Second Hundred Thousand — The Million
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1945, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.