Richard Harding Davis Books in Order

At the Hotel Salisbury's staff ball, Van Bibber notices a chambermaid whose dancing surpasses the evening's professional performers. His interest in her talent creates an opportunity that tests assumptions about class, recognition, and life beyond hotel service.

A resourceful newspaper office boy recognizes a wanted murderer and helps pursue a major story. Gallegher's street knowledge and determination become crucial as the reporting team races to secure its scoop before the paper's deadline.

Seven stories follow young adventurers, athletes, and aspiring heroes through unusual tests of courage and judgment. The collection includes a reporter's rise on a tropical island, amateur pirates, a tennis tournament, and encounters involving baseball and horse racing.

Davis travels through the American West, describing Texas ranches, border troops, mining settlements, military posts, and an Indigenous reservation. His observations contrast an eastern visitor's expectations with the people and landscapes encountered along the route.

Travels through Gibraltar, Tangier, Cairo, Athens, and Constantinople lead Davis to examine life around the Mediterranean. Descriptions of cities and landmarks accompany observations about military power, diplomacy, tourism, and European influence in the region.

An American visitor observes late nineteenth-century English society through politics, university life, and fashionable entertainment. Davis describes a general election, Oxford undergraduates, and London's social season, tracing customs that seem both familiar and foreign to him.

Exhausted reformer Henry Holcombe travels to Tangier on his doctor's advice, expecting relief from New York's political pressures. Meeting a fugitive police commissioner draws him into an expatriate community that challenges his uncompromising ideas about justice.

Davis presents sketches of Parisian streets, nightlife, horse racing, and the city's American residents. His account also describes public mourning, combining observations of everyday urban life with the ceremonies and amusements of the French capital.

New York portrait painter Morton Carlton sees a photograph of Princess Aline and travels to Europe hoping to meet her. Royal etiquette and repeated obstacles complicate his pursuit, while friendship with fellow traveler Edith Morris challenges his romantic fixation.

Davis recounts a journey with two companions through Venezuela and Central America. Visits to Honduras, Corinto, Panama, and Caracas bring descriptions of transport, local society, political affairs, and the practical difficulties of traveling through the region.

Reporting from Cuba during its struggle against Spanish rule, Davis examines military fortifications, insurgent warfare, and civilian suffering. Accounts of executions, displaced noncombatants, and searches of American vessels describe a conflict before the Spanish-American War.

Mining engineer Robert Clay works in the fictional republic of Olancho, where commercial interests become entangled with a political coup. The visiting Langham family draws him into romantic complications as revolution threatens their business and safety.

Davis collects reporting on major public events and international conflict, from a Russian coronation and Hungary's celebrations to American political ceremonies. His notebook also follows Greek soldiers, Cuba's violence, and Queen Victoria's jubilee through a correspondent's eyes.

An exiled king and his followers gather in Tangier to plan a return to power in Messina. Prince Kalonay's loyalty, Countess Zara's involvement, and the presence of a journalist complicate a conspiracy built on uncertain motives.

Diners at London's Grill Club are drawn into a naval officer's account of a mysterious crime encountered in dense fog. As other guests contribute their stories, apparent connections turn a conversation about adventure into an increasingly elaborate puzzle.

This collection brings together tales of romance, military life, and unexpected acts of courage. Alongside the title story, On the Fever Ship, The Man with One Talent, The Vagrant, and The Last Ride Together explore duty and personal sacrifice.

A bored lieutenant's mock robbery at Fort Crockett creates a genuine military crisis in the title story. This collection also includes The Bar Sinister and In the Fog, moving between romance, adventure, animal narration, and mystery.

Kid, a bull terrier with an uncertain pedigree, tells the story of his life among people and other dogs. His journey from hardship toward the show world explores loyalty, social standing, and the value placed on ancestry.

Young reporter Albert Gordon travels to the island of Opeki seeking adventure and material for his writing. When diplomatic responsibilities unexpectedly fall to him, competing rulers and foreign interference turn his ambitions into a comic struggle for authority.

Alice Gardner discovers three burglars entering her family's country house while her ill mother sleeps upstairs. Trying to summon help without alarming her mother, she must delay the intruders in this one-act comedy about wit and criminal pretensions.

Davis records travels along Africa's coasts and into the Congo, observing traders, missionaries, transport, and colonial settlements. His account combines encounters on the journey with criticism of exploitation and descriptions of European and American activity in the region.

Winthrop drives Beatrice Forbes, her brother, and her fiancé toward the Harvard-Yale football game. The outing launches a series of roadside adventures in which his feelings for Beatrice become entangled with trespassing, danger, and comic misunderstandings.

Vera earns her living as a fraudulent medium until an inheritance dispute draws her into a scheme involving wealthy Stephen Hallowell. A reforming district attorney's involvement challenges both her professional deceptions and the loyalties behind them.

Van Bibber notices a small child performing in a theater and becomes concerned about her future. His impulsive attempt to protect her takes him beyond the stage into a difficult encounter with the child's estranged father.

Eight short stories explore adventure, deception, and moral choices through journalists, travelers, and soldiers. The collection opens with a reformer's journey to the Congo and includes The Spy, The Amateur, The Make-Believe Man, and Peace Manoeuvres.

Rejected in love, wealthy Richard Herrick buys three performing bears and plans to release them into his private preserve. His friends question whether trained stage animals can become wild, challenging the assumptions behind his supposedly generous gesture.

George Morgan Crosby travels to Valencia on State Department business and is mistaken for a spy. Encounters with an actual intelligence operative expose political imprisonment and rival commercial interests, turning his assignment into a study of deception.

This collection brings together Davis's firsthand war reporting, including the Greek-Turkish and Spanish-American conflicts. Accounts of military action and personal suffering reveal the pressures on a correspondent balancing political allegiance with the human consequences of battle.

Fleeing the police after a violent encounter, Ragsey Raegen hides in an apparently abandoned tenement. Discovering a hungry baby there forces the rough street fighter to choose between protecting his own escape and caring for a helpless stranger.

Stories of extraordinary luck, treasure seeking, consular adventures, and deception form this collection. The title tale follows a man's unexpected winning streak, while My Buried Treasure, The Consul, The Nature Faker, and The Lost House explore other uncertain fortunes.

Nine stories combine romance, adventure, deception, and questions of character. In the title tale, cynical newspaper reporter Sam Ward encounters a Red Cross nurse whose dedication challenges his assumptions about wealth, service, and what makes a person admirable.

Soldiers, travelers, and adventurers face tests of loyalty and judgment in this collection. The title story follows an officer determined to avoid romantic distraction, while other tales involve buried treasure, coincidence, dangerous journeys, and a resourceful boy scout.

Private Lathrop participates in militia war games while trying to impress Beatrice Farrar. Scouting duties, mock enemy encounters, and romantic distractions collide, turning a military exercise into a comic test of his resourcefulness and competing obligations.

Reporting from Europe during the opening months of World War I, Davis describes German-occupied Brussels, destruction at Louvain, fighting near Soissons, and bombardment at Rheims. His account follows Allied soldiers, civilians, diplomats, and the difficulties faced by correspondents.

Six stories explore espionage, deception, and resourcefulness, opening with a German agent operating under assumed identities in France. Other selections include Playing Dead, The Card-Sharp, Billy and the Big Stick, The Boy Scout, and The Frame-Up.

Brooke Travers and his valet travel under assumed names to Porto Banos, where American consular affairs intersect with the politics of San Manana. This three-act farce mixes mistaken identities, romantic complications, and intrigue in a fictional Central American republic.

New York socialite Copeland Schuyler assumes war correspondent Kirke Warren's identity amid fighting between Greece and Turkey. Romantic entanglements and offended officers complicate his impersonation, turning a journey to the front into a three-act adventure comedy.

Davis follows French and Allied forces during World War I, visiting trenches in Artois and Champagne before traveling toward Salonika. Reports from Serbia, Verdun, and the Vosges accompany observations on civilians, relief efforts, and wartime political tensions.

In this three-act farce, New York socialite Copeland Schuyler adopts the identity of war correspondent Kirke Warren. Romantic misunderstandings and offended officers complicate his journey toward the fighting between Greek and Turkish forces, turning impersonation into an escalating adventure.

Davis reports from French battlefields and the Allied expedition around Salonika during World War I. Visits to soldiers, wounded men, and civilians combine with reflections on military conditions, national resolve, and American neutrality during the conflict.

Edited by his brother Charles Belmont Davis, this biographical collection traces Richard Harding Davis's life through personal letters and commentary. College, journalism, travel, fiction, and war reporting provide the settings for a career that crossed several continents.

American volunteer Hamlin considers deserting the British Army while stationed at Salonika, exhausted by illness and trench warfare. Encounters with war correspondents force him to weigh the desire to return home against the obligations he accepted when enlisting.

American engineer Billy Barlow remains in Haiti after his employer withdraws, taking work for a government reluctant to pay him. His pursuit of overdue wages and love for Claire Ducrot become entangled with corruption and threatened American intervention.

Roddy Forrester visits Venezuela to inspect a lighthouse project and learns that General Rojas is imprisoned under a tyrannical president. With his friend Peter de Peyster, he plans a rescue that entangles youthful idealism with revolutionary politics.

Four stories follow the socially privileged Van Bibber through encounters involving a child performer, a servant, hunger, and a dog. His interventions reveal unexpected connections between fashionable New York life and people facing less comfortable circumstances around him.

War correspondent Chesterton leaves Miss Armitage to cover the Spanish-American War despite her fears for his safety. Her conviction that love will protect him accompanies a series of dangers, challenging the relationship between courage, luck, and romantic faith.

Wealthy Arnold Thorndike is asked to support a former employee awaiting sentence for theft. His reluctant involvement takes him into an unfamiliar courtroom, where the circumstances of Henry Spear's arrest challenge his assumptions about justice and social responsibility.

New York reporter Austin Ford encounters a distressed woman during an Atlantic crossing and becomes interested in her missing husband. His confidence in reading character is tested as he investigates a marriage complicated by questionable behavior and conflicting appearances.

Ainsley retreats to an isolated Connecticut farm while waiting for Polly Kirkland to decide whether she will marry him. As she travels abroad, his longing transforms ordinary events and visiting birds into possible messages about her feelings.

Young reforming journalist Everett sails toward the Congo expecting to expose corruption as he has in America. Conversations with seasoned colonial travelers challenge his assumptions, placing ideals about truth and responsibility against the excuses made for abuses abroad.

A cautious businessman invites the narrator to search for pirate treasure using a document inherited from a dead tenant. Meticulous preparations and fear of danger complicate an expedition whose practical demands clash with the romantic appeal of buried wealth.

A call promising to identify Hermann Banf's murderer draws District Attorney Wharton into a politically dangerous investigation. Allegations against his wealthy brother-in-law force him to examine motives and evidence while confronting pressures from family loyalties and party interests.

Fading novelist Fletcher Farrell receives an eccentric proposal from a wealthy couple who want to adopt him. A visit to their town and an encounter with Polly Briggs complicate his choices about money, identity, and personal independence.

A young stenographer and his adventure-seeking friend Kinney leave New York on a vacation shaped by chance. An encounter with an attractive woman encourages suspicions and impersonation, drawing their search for excitement into a series of misunderstandings.

Five stories for younger readers bring together a Boy Scout’s kindness, a young reporter’s resourcefulness and a dog’s experiences. Courage, loyalty and questions of character connect tales including Gallegher, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Bar Sinister.

Six biographical sketches follow adventurers whose military exploits crossed national boundaries, including Winston Churchill, William Walker, and Frederick Burnham. Accounts of campaigns, escapes, disputed ambitions, and unusual careers examine the varied lives gathered under the label soldiers of fortune.

This volume combines With the Allies and With the French in France and Salonika, supplemented by wartime letters. Davis's firsthand reporting follows European battlefields, occupied communities, and Allied campaigns during the final years of his career as a correspondent.

At a police station in the Panama Canal Zone, Major Aintree encounters officers concerned about his drinking. A lieutenant's effort to reform the commander of his father's former regiment drives this one-act play about military conduct and responsibility.

Davis's dispatches from 1914 to 1916 describe trench warfare in France, German actions in Belgium, and fighting in the Balkans. This collection also follows civilians and political figures, including the correspondent's arrest on suspicion of being a British spy.

Civil engineer Henry Arkwright returns from Cuba eager to enlist Senator Stanton's help for people suffering under Spanish rule. Admiration for the senator's eloquence becomes a test of whether public sympathy will lead to meaningful action beyond speeches.

Young prosecutor Harry Harvey delivers a celebrated speech at the opening of Zepata City's courthouse during a murder trial. His confident attack on defendant Abe Barrow sets ambition and polished rhetoric against the human consequences of securing a conviction.

Governor Sir Charles Greville confronts an impoverished American accused of vagrancy in the Windless Islands. Ordered to work or leave, the stranger unsettles the colony's orderly routines, while the arrival of an American yacht introduces further questions about him.

Ruined gambler Harringford arrives at Monte Carlo intending to end his life after losing money, standing, and hope of marriage. His desperate isolation draws another visitor's attention, setting private despair against the possibility of unexpected human concern.

Latimer visits a bishop to ask permission to marry his daughter Ellen. The father's questions about another woman turn a conventional request into a searching conversation about love, temptation, honesty, and the obligations that might shape a marriage.