Loot Of Cities
Author: first_name: Arnold
last_name: Bennett
Language: English
Year: 1917

Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.  ‘In Queen's Quorum (1951), a survey of crime fiction, Ellery Queen listed Bennett's The Loot of Cities among the 100 most important works in the genre. This collection of stories recounts the adventures of a millionaire who commits crimes to achieve his idealistic ends. Although it was "one of his least known works," it was nevertheless "of unusual interes