Series
Barney Custer
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 1914–1926
Barney Custer is an American farmer from Nebraska who travels to the small European kingdom of Lutha only to discover he's the spitting image of its unstable ruler, King Leopold. Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Mad King drops him into court intrigue on the eve of World War I, as a scheming uncle's plot for the throne and a budding romance with a princess force Barney to impersonate the king he resembles. It's a standalone Ruritanian adventure rather than an ongoing series.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 1910s2
- 1920s1
Shape
1 novel · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:thriller & suspensepolitical intrigueeuropeearly 20th centuryadventurousadult
Mood
Too few works here carry a tone to place this series.
the catalog’s own centre, waiting for company1 of 3 works carry a tone