Johnston McCulley is best known as the creator of Zorro. His 1912 novel King of Chaos belongs more to the late Victorian/Edwardian adventure fiction tradition than to the pulp tradition with a definite Ruritania/Prisoner of Zenda flavour.

An obscure clerk is kidnapped and told that he is actually a king.

Outlandish but fun. And there are pirates.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/02/johnston-mcculleys-king-of-chaos.html

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