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The Chronicles of Lucifer Jones
Volume IIIтАФ1931-1934
ENCOUNTERS
by Mike Resnick

Being a Romantic Chronicle of Intrigue, High Adventure, Danger, Spectacle, and Thrilling
Triumphs Over Wicked Villains, Painted Women, and Horrific Monsters in the Sinful Nations
of Europe, as Recounted by the Daring, Handsome, Resourceful and Modest Christian
Gentleman Who Experienced Them


To Carol, as always,
And to Laura Resnick:
my daughter, the writer


Table of Contents
1. The Home-Made Man
2. Doubled and Redoubled
3. Treasure Hunting
4. The Lost Continent
5. Exercising Ghosts
6. The Werewolf
7. The Clubfoot of Notre Dame
8. The Crown Jewels
9. The Loch Ness Monster
10. A Tabernacle is Not a Home
11. Death in the Afternoon

CAST OF CHARACTERS
Baron Steinmetz, who creates a home-made man out of spare parts in his basement.
King Philbert of Sylvania, who bears a remarkable resemblance to our narrator.
Gustav the Book, half-man, half-thing, and all gambler.
Erich Von Horst, a con man's con man.
Princess Griselda, who knows what, if not who, she likes.
Mr. TallandMr. Short , who share a taste for lost continents, money, and indiscriminate
bloodshed.
Sam Hightower, who forsakes the snowman biz for the ghost game.