The Closing Net

The Closing Net is a 1912 crime novel by Henry Cottrell Rowland (1874-1933), the American surgeon turned popular novelist whose adventures ran through the big magazines of the day. The story follows Frank Clamart, a gentleman cracksman in Paris trying to go straight while his criminal past draws the net of the title around him. Rowland wrote with a yachtsman’s and doctor’s knowledge of the world his characters moved through, and the book was filmed in 1915. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.