Miss Musketeeer

<p>Between 1894 and 1914 Paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) wrote a series of 21 volumes collectively entitled <em>The Eccentric Voyages</em> clearly inspired by and updating Jules Verne's classic <em>Extraordinary Voyage</em>s.</p><p><br></p><p>While not quite matching Verne for verve and invention d'Ivoi succeeded in appealing to a new generation of readers by updating many of the great author's ideas featuring among other concepts an airship with mobile wings an amphibious mobile fortress a super-submarine various types of death rays futuristic weapons and other mechanical sci-fi devices.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Miss Musketeer</em> (1907) is the second volume of <em>The Eccentric Voyages </em>to be published by Black Coat Press after <em>Around the World on Five Sous</em> (1894) the first in the series with two more volumes planned in order to illustrate d'Ivoi's not insignificant contribution to the French <em>roman scientifique</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Miss Musketeer</em> is the concluding chapter of a trilogy dealing with the revolt of Asia and the attempts by a powerful pan-Asiatic secret society the Amber Masks to throw off the yoke of the Western colonizers. Armed with a variety of advanced weaponry the Amber Masks are only opposed by a motley band of fearless heroes: the intrepid Turkic adventurer Dodekhan master of a rival secret society that of the Blue Flag the French popular writer Max Soleil and most of all Max's girlfriend the young indomitable British millionairess Miss Violet Musketeer! </p>