The Port of Missing Men ILLUSTRATED
Meredith Nicholson
Meredith Nicholson was a best-selling author from Indiana, United States. He published extensively and, along with Booth Tarkington, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley represented the Golden Age of literature in Indiana in the early 1900s. Three of his books were national bestsellers: "The House of a Thousand Candles" (in 1906), "The Port of Missing Men" (1907), "A Hoosier Chronicle" (in 1912).
A bit of detective fiction, romance, suspense, espionage, and political thriller, "The Port of Missing Men" is the story of Shirley Claiborne and John Armitage, a tall handsome man who seems to follow her as she travels around Europe with her brother Captain Claiborne. Armitage was asked to bring something to Austria by now dead Count von Stroebel, victim of a political assassination. Eventually, Shirley and her brother return home in Washington D.C.. and Armitage follows them. Yet another person follows them. Who follows whom and who is John Armitage?