num_pages: 292
description: First and foremost, my name, age, description, and occupation, as they say in the Police Gazette . Richard Hatteras, at your service, commonly called Dick, of Thursday Island, North Queensland, pearler, copra merchant, bêche-de-mer and tortoiseshell dealer, and South Sea trader generally. Eight-and-twenty years of age, neither particularly good-looking nor, if some people are to be believed, particularly amiable, six feet two in my stockings, and forty-six inches round the chest; strong as a Hakodate wrestler, and perfectly willing at any moment to pay ten pounds sterling to the man who can put me on my back. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
language: English
title: A Bid for Fortune
titlecomplete: A Bid for Fortune
characters: Doctor Nikola
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Classics, Crime
ratings_count: 124
places: Australia
series: Doctor Nikola, Classic Australian SF
publisher: Borgo Press