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Maxwell Grantly Biography & Facts
Maxwell Grant was a pen name used by the authors of The Shadow pulp magazine stories from the 1930s to 1960s.Street & Smith, the publishers of The Shadow, hired author Walter B. Gibson to create and write the series based on popular interest in the character who was first used as a radio narrator. However, Gibson was asked to use a pen name. The pen name was used primarily so numerous authors could write the stories without confusing readers. Another factor was how Gibson, also a nonfiction writer, wanted to use a pen name for his fiction. He adopted the pen name Maxwell Grant, taking the name from two stage magic dealers he knew: Maxwell Holden and U.F. Grant. Gibson wrote the vast majority of Shadow stories, usually two short novels per month for The Shadow magazine. Four authors besides Gibson have used the Maxwell Grant pen name: Theodore Tinsley, who wrote 27 Shadow stories between 1936 and 1943; Lester Dent, who wrote one story, The Golden Vulture, in 1938; Bruce Elliott, who wrote 15 Shadow stories between 1946 and 1948; and Dennis Lynds, who wrote nine Shadow paperback novels between 1964 and 1967. The comic book series The Shadow: Year One, published by Dynamite Entertainment, features a character by the name of "Maxwell Grant". The character is a journalist, who uncovers the identity of the Shadow. However, rather than exposing him, Grant offers to chronicle his adventures. References. Discover the Maxwell Grantly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Maxwell Grantly books.
Best Seller Maxwell Grantly Books of 2024
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Alfred and the Broken Flute
Maxwell GrantlyAlfred wasn’t like other children; he had no mother or father to look after him. Alfred only owned an old top hat and a small wooden flute. Therefore, Alfred would earn his keep by...
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Jack and the Space Pirates
Maxwell GrantlyJack lives and works on EM05, a steampunk space station found on a major trade route between Earth and Mars. He spends his days tarring the insides of frigates and galleons, as the...
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Fingers and the Dream Thief
Maxwell GrantlyFingers is a young shoeshine pickpocket boy who lives in the bustling city of New Babbage. He's quickwitted and street smart, always on the lookout for his next score. But one day,...
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Dear Diary
Maxwell GrantlyThis book contains four short stories (in diary form) from the first few years of the lives of two elven brothers, Maxwell and Skippy. Find our what happened when they went racing ...
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The Incredible Adventure of Fingers and Boston
Maxwell GrantlyAbandoned by his parents and forced by fate to work on the streets of New Babbage shining shoes, Edward Croydon (also known as “Fingers”) has to pick the pockets of rich gentlemen ...
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Sprocket and the Sparrow
Maxwell GrantlySprocket (Robot ThirtySeven) loves his work and he takes great pride in packing tin cans neatly into wooden crates. One day Sprocket catches a fleeting glance of a sparrow, perchin...
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Mrs Phossy and the Cats of Pfaff
Maxwell GrantlyThis short story by Maxwell Grantly outlines the silly mayhem that followed, the day that Tabby followed Mrs. Phossy into her workplace: an old Victorian matchmaking factory. What ...
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Dancing Della
Maxwell GrantlyThis illustrated story is a compilation of two previous stories by Maxwell Grantly: ‘Dancing Della and the Empty Gin Bottles’ and ‘Dancing Della Finds Her Hat.’ Therefore, if you h...
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Dancing Della and the Empty Gin Bottles
Maxwell GrantlyDella loves to dance at the Smugglers’ Arms for free loose change, to supplement her income as a match girl. This is why the regulars call her ‘Dancing Della – the Match Girl.’ One...
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Hold Your Horses
Maxwell GrantlyMaxwell and Skippy had been looking forward to the annual village fete all summer. They were among friends and they knew that no one would stare at them or poke fun at their pointe...
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Fingers and the Dream Thief
Maxwell GrantlyHave you ever met a dream thief? Edward Croydon (also known as “Fingers”) was abandoned by his uncaring parents and left to roam free on the streets of New Babbage. Fate forced him...
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Dancing Della Finds Her Hat
Maxwell GrantlyIn the last story (featuring Dancing Della) Della escaped free from the sewer network but, sadly, she left her straw boater behind. In this sequel we discover how Della returned to...
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The Fingers Trilogy
Maxwell GrantlyThis beautiful trilogy features three incredible stories from the life and times of a Victorian shoeshine boy, Edward Croydon. (Also known as Fingers the Pickpocket.) As an infant,...
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The Vampire Cats
Maxwell GrantlyHow did the two young elves, Maxwell and Skippy, discover their much loved cats and what was behind their strange sounding names: The Vampire King and the Vampire Queen? How did th...
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The Ghostman
Maxwell GrantlyJamie Summers works in the Great Yarmouth area as a mentalist, performing magic tricks and various mind routines with a psychological edge. To his friends he is simply known as Jam...
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The Stolen Egg
Maxwell GrantlyWhen a local spiv is deceived into stealing a supposed bird’s egg, a series of events start to unfold in the steampunk town of New Babbage. This results in an adventure that no one...
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Count on Teddy
Maxwell GrantlyEdward had a special playmate called Teddy, who owned a lot of different hats. Teddy had a smart bowler hat for listening to the BBC news on the radio, a baseball cap for riding hi...
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A Clean Sweep
Maxwell GrantlyIsaac Little was a chimney sweep apprentice who worked for the cruel Mr. Grubber. It was a difficult and dangerous life sweeping chimneys, especially as Isaac was forced to crawl w...
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Gobbler and the Mirror
Maxwell GrantlyGobbler was a poor orphan who lived on the streets of the steampunk town of New Babbage. He would spend his days searching for scraps of food to steal and, whenever he found some m...
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Gobbles - The Hungry Cat
Maxwell GrantlyWhen Jack is given a free baby kitten, his mother gives him just one rule, “Do not overfeed the cat.” It’s hard for a young child to care for a new pet, without worrying that it is...
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Lunar Dream
Maxwell GrantlyCan you remember what you dreamed about last night? If you can, was your dream a weird and wonderful one? I bet it was they usually are! Well, elves are no different from you and ...
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The Christmas Penny
Maxwell GrantlyHave you ever stopped in the street and seen a shining penny laying in the gutter. I bet you didn’t pass it by! This is a story of two street urchins, in the steampunk city of New ...
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Runs Like Clockwork
Maxwell GrantlyThis heartwrenching tale is set in the fictional steampunk town of New Babbage, in an era without electricity. An elderly clockmaker and seller, Mr. McKenzie, constructs a mechanic...
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Conker Bonkers
Maxwell GrantlyDid you know that the Horse Chestnut tree holds a deep and wonderful secret? No? Well, nor did two small elves, Maxwell and Skippy, until they saw a special picture hanging o...
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Early Days
Maxwell GrantlyMaxwell and Skippy were no ordinary elves; they had been present at an event that was both courageous and tragic. Their parents had been terribly mown down by a speeding bus, after...
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The Sugar Monster
Maxwell GrantlyWho could ever think that a simple tenminute stroll to the village grocery shop could be fraught with so much danger and excitement? Read this book and you'll be desperate to visit...
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Fingers and the Pocket Watch Too
Maxwell GrantlyFriends knew Edward Croydon, the shoeshine boy, as ‘Fingers’ due to his pickpocketing skills. As an infant, Fingers had been abandoned by his parents in the town cemetery, to...
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Bandit - The Short-Sighted Cat Burglar
Maxwell GrantlySophie and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Goggles, lived in the town of Myopia. Everyone in Myopia was shortsighted and so it was no surprise that, when the time came, Sophie should fail...
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The Boy With the Clockwork Heart
Maxwell GrantlyEdward had a particularly hard upbringing. Despite being a young child, he had to work long hours in Mr. Grime’s dreadful cotton mill. It was a very hard life and, so very often, t...
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Fingers and the Pocket Watch
Maxwell GrantlyMeet Edward Croyden (known by his friends as “Fingers” due to his pick pocketing skills.) As an infant, Fingers was abandoned by his parents in the town cemetery one winter’s day. ...