Arnold Bennett

The Loot of Cities Arnold Bennett

"The Loot of the Cities" is a collection of stories that tells the adventures of a millionaire from a big city who commits crimes to achieve his idealistic ends. In Queen's Quorum, a study of crime fiction, this book is among the 100 most important works of the suspense genre. "Although it was 'one of her lesser-known stories, ' it was nonetheless 'of unusual interest, both as an example of Arnold Bennett's early work and as an early example of dilettante detectivism.