Story By Johnston McCulley
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Johnston McCulley

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The Black Star
Updated at Jan 7, 2022, 00:02
A gentleman thief who manages to make incredible and daring thefts known by all as the "black star". Without ever falling into the spiral of violence.
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The Mark of Zorro
Updated at Dec 31, 2020, 00:36
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley. Originally titled The Curse of Capistrano in its 1919 debut, this exciting tale achieved immortal fame thanks to Douglas Fairbanks’s 1920 blockbuster film, The Mark of Zorro—a cinematic triumph that inspired Johnston McCulley to retitle his novel and dedicate it to Fairbanks. Set in Mexican California during the 1820s, the story follows the career of Don Diego Vega, by all appearances an effete and foppish aristocrat. But Vega’s timorous reputation is nothing more than a mask to conceal his alter ego: a California Robin Hood known as Zorro, whose swift blade strikes down those who exploit the poor and oppressed. The inspiration for dozens of film and television adaptations, The Mark of Zorro remains a paradigm of swashbuckling adventure.
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