Denis Dent

Denis Dent is a mystery story by Ernest W. Hornung. Hornung was an English author and poet known for his "gentleman thief" fiction. Excerpt: "It was the horrible striking of an iron ship: a terrific crash under the mizzen-chains, and there she quivered like a rat in a terrier's teeth. And the devilish seas that had run with her, hunted with her, how they fell on her now, and swept and trampled her from the moment she was down!"