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Thomas W. Hanshew (1857 – 1914) was an American writer and male actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York (state). Life and career Hanshew began a career as an actor when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company. Subsequently he played important roles with Clara Morris and Adelaide Neilson. Later he was associated with a publishing house in London, where he resided at the end of his life. He used, among others, the pen name "Charlotte May Kingsley," and wrote more than 150 novels, some of which were co-authored with his wife, Mary E. Hanshew. Hanshew's best-known character was the consulting detective "Hamilton Cleek" (the assumed name of the King of Maurevania),, a reformed thief now working for law enforcement. Cleek is known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible skill at disguise. The main character of dozens of short stories that began to be published during 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books, Cleek is based in Clarges Street, London, where he is consulted continually by Inspector Narkom of Scotland Yard. Bibliography (this list is incomplete) Dark Corners of New York (1888) My Maid (1888) as "Charlotte May Kingsley" Edison’s The Chronicles of Cleek series Ben F. Wilson appeared as Detective Hamilton Cleek in a series of silent film shorts: The Heritage of Hamilton Cleek (1914) The Mystery of the Sealed Art Gallery (1914) The Mystery of the Glass Tubes (1914) The Mystery of the Octagonal Room (1914) The Mystery of the Lost Stradivarius (1914) The Mystery of the Fadeless Tints (1914) The Mystery of the Amsterdam Diamonds (1914) The Mystery of the Silver Snare (1914) The Mystery of the Laughing Death (1914) The Mystery of the Ladder of Light (1914) The Mystery of the Talking Wire (1914) The Mystery of the Dover Express (1913) The Vanishing Cracksman (1913) Reception Even by the standards of the adventure fiction of the era, Hamilton Cleek is a notably unrealistic character, not only for his ability to impersonate anyone (including speaking multiple foreign languages perfectly) but for his physical derring-do and his frequent melodramatic encounters with Margot, "Queen of the Apaches", and her partner-in-crime Merode. Further reading "Hanshew, Thomas W. 1857-1914". Encyclopedia.com. "Thomas W. Hanshew (Hanshew, Thomas W., 1857-1914)". The Online Books Page. "Thomas W. Hanshew". LibraryThing. "Was Bertha M. Clay Really Thomas W. Hanshew?; Since the Recent Death of the Latter, Famed for His "Cleek" Stories, He Has Been Widely Recognized as the Author of "Dora Thorne" and Others of That Series, But Investigation Disproves It". The New York Times. 7 June 1914. Thomas W. Hanshew. The World's Finger: An Improbable Story London: Ward, Lock, 1901. "Thomas W. Hanshew". Alphabetical Bibliography. Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Smith, Kevin Burton (2 March 2020). "Hamilton Cleek (The Man of the Forty Faces)". Thrilling Detective. "Thomas W. and Mary E. Hanshew, Works by". freeread.com.au. Retrieved 4 November 2021. Grost, Mike. "Hanshew, Thomas W: Biography & Bibliography". Golden Age of Detection. pbworks.com. "Thomas W. Hanshew; Mary E. Hanshew". Book List. FictionDB. Osam, M. Wesley (June 15, 2007). "The Man Who Calls Himself Hamilton Cleek". Recurring Bafflement. Super Doomed Planet. Grost, Michael E. "The Hanshews". Early Impossible Crime Fiction. MikeGrost.com. "Thomas W. Hanshew". Books by. goodreads. See also Charlotte Mary Brame (Bertha M. Clay) References  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Thomas W. Hanshew". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. External links Thomas W. Hanshew Thomas W. Hanshew at Library of Congress, with 21 library catalog records under that name, and 1 as Charlotte May Kingsley, linked Works by Thomas W. Hanshew at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Thomas W. Hanshew at Internet Archive Mary E. Hanshew Mary E. Hanshew at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalog records Works by Mary E. Hanshew at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Mary E. Hanshew at Internet Archive Thomas and Mary Hanshew Works by Thomas and Mary Hanshew at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) . Discover the Thomas W Hanshew popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Thomas W Hanshew books.