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CLARENCE HERBERT NEW

1862 - 1933

Writing as: Clarence H. New


According to the bio on ZSR Library, the website for the library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC:

"Clarence Herbert New was a writer, editor, adventurer, and novelist, best known for his work "Free Lances in Diplomacy" a serial novel (sic) published in Blue Book Magazine from 1909-1934.

Clarence Herbert New was born on November 14, 1862 in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Tobias and Lizzie A. Parmelee New.

He published under his own name and pseudonyms including Culpeper Zandtt, Stephen Hopkins Orcutt, Devon Ames, and Norman Blake.

In his youth, Clarence New traveled widely, writing poetry and drawing sketches. He engaged in several expeditions to Oceania, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and Asia, and also traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. During his travels he became increasingly interested in ships.

He graduated from the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, the Betts Military Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.

He married Rachel Tatum on November 10, 1891. Clarence New served as editor of Truth, the New York and London Literary Press, and Reel Life and his adventure stories and novels were published in Blue Book Magazine, Adventure Magazine, the Premier, as well as other pulp magazines.

Clarence New's writing focused mostly on stories of international intrigue, diplomatic mysteries, and global exploration and he has been credited with popularizing the international espionage genre. His work was often informed by his own travel experience, supplemented by photographs, ephemera, and maps. Clarence New was also an amateur photographer, capturing still lifes, landscapes, and portraits in Maine and New York.

Clarence New's right arm was amputated in 1916 following a bear attack near a New York zoo.

He died on January 8, 1933."



Series Books
 
Free Lances in Diplomacy The Unseen Hand (1918)
  The Affair of the Kiel Maneuvers (na) (1910)
  A Ward of the Crown (na) (1910)
  Friends of the Grand Duke (na) (1910)
  An Imperial Indiscretion (na) (1910)
  The Abduction of an Aviator (na) (1910)
  The House of Weissburg-Altstadt (na) (1910)
  The Egyptian Affair (na) (1910)
  The Slavonic Conspiracy (na) (1910)
  The Love Affair of a Princess (na) (1910)
  With Royalty at Biarritz (na) (1911)
  A House Party at Trevor Hall (na) (1911)
  A Personal Obligation (na) (1911)
  When the Fox Stole the Bait (na) (1911)
  The Potter and the Clay (na) (1911)
  A Leak in the Foreign Office (na) (1911)
  Political Anaesthesia (na) (1911)
  A Regency Plot (na) (1911)
  The Cat's Paw (na) (1911)
  The Great Loan Syndicate (na) (1911)
  Et Tu - Carissima (na) (1911)
  A Debut in the Secret Service (na) (1911)
  A Dangerous Recognition (na) (1912)
  The Mohammedan Conspiracy (na) (1912)
  A Foreign Office Duel (na) (1912)
  The Durbar of the Kaisar-i-Hind (na) (1912)
  The Affair at Spithead (na) (1912)
  The Laugh on Prinz Wilhelm (na) (1912)
  The Conspiracy of March 14th (na) (1912)
  The Mysterious Death of a Monarch (na) (1912)
  Marked for Murder (na) (1912)
  The Princess Delicia (na) (1912)
  The King of Delgaria (na) (1912)
  Sonia Krellovna (na) (1912)
  The Balkan War (na) (1913)
  On the Chess-Board of Europe (na) (1913)
  The Jade Casket of Tzu-Hsi (na) (1913)
  A Recruit for the Lost Legion (na) (1913)
  Russia Provides Occupation for an Ally (na) (1913)
  A Honeymoon Alibi (na) (1913)
  The Shadow of the Slav (na) (1913)
  A Militant Outrage (na) (1913)
  A Conspirator in Old Chelsea (na) (1913)
  A Key to the Canal (na) (1913)
  The British Foreign Office Acquires a "Goat"' (na) (1913)
  The Goat Scores a Coup (na) (1913)
  Secret Instructions from the Czar (na) (1914)
  The Education of Hassan Ali (na) (1914)
  American Ideas in Diplomacy (na) (1914)
  In the Devil's Clutches (na) (1914)
  An Empire Versus a Wooden Shaving (na) (1914)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1914)
  The Breath of Suspicion (na) (1914)
  The Brain Pump (na) (1914)
  That Which Can Never Be Undone (na) (1914)
  What One May May Do (na) (1914)
  The Armies of the Fourth Estate (na) (1914)
  The Fortunes of War (na) (1915)
  A Message to Roumania (na) (1915)
  The Neutrality of Bulgaria (na) (1915)
  A Crisis in Turkey (na) (1915)
  The Voice of Count Johann (na) (1915)
  Within the Enemy's Citadel (na) (1915)
  The Man From Downing Street (na) (1915)
  An Escape - and a Resurrection (na) (1915)
  The Wail of the Banshee (na) (1915)
  The Serpents Among Them (na) (1915)
  The Netherlands Plot (na) (1915)
  The Scandinavian Coup (na) (1915)
  The Brewing of Hell-Broth (na) (1915)
  Greeks of Thermopylae - Greeks of the Debacle (na) (1916)
  Secret Service (na) (1916)
  The Dare-Devils (na) (1916)
  Traitors Unawares (na) (1916)
  The Menace in Petrograd (na) (1916)
  The Aldershot Affair (na) (1916)
  The Honor of Islam (na) (1916)
  The Fight for Holland (na) (1916)
  The Greater Plot (na) (1916)
  The Wireless Mystery (na) (1916)
  The Mysterious Camp in the Pyrenees (na) (1916)
  The Roumanian Coup (na) (1916)
  A Counterstroke in Sweden (na) (1917)
  The Last Laugh (na) (1917)
  Outwitting the Green Circle (na) (1917)
  The Man Behind the Throne (na) (1917)
  Behind the Secret Panel (na) (1917)
  The Crisis in Petrograd (na) (1917)
  The Beginnings of the Revolution (na) (1917)
  Overheard in Germany (na) (1917)
  The World Against Them (na) (1917)
  In the Kaiser's Council-Chamber (na) (1917)
  Poker in Vienna (na) (1917)
  The Loaded Dice of Germany (na) (1917)
  Eagles of the Sea (na) (1918)
  Inside Work (na) (1918)
  The Enemy in Their Midst (na) (1918)
  Between the Lines (na) (1918)
  That Which Was Russia (na) (1918)
  We Have Just Begun to Fight (na) (1918)
  When Treason Stalked by Night (na) (1918)
  The Corporal from Cincinnati (na) (1918)
  The Blue Letter (na) (1918)
  The Devil Unchained (na) (1918)
  The Return of the Free Lances (na) (1918)
  The Tightening of the Net (na) (1918)
  One to Ten Thousand (na) (1919)
  In Butchers' Hands (na) (1919)
  In the Center of the Web (na) (1919)
  The Green Table - and the Croupiers (na) (1919)
  The Tiger (na) (1919)
  The Drift Toward Chaos (na) (1919)
  Briton and Bolshevik (na) (1919)
  The Spreading of the Plague (na) (1919)
  The Girl from the States (na) (1919)
  The Italian Interlude (na) (1919)
  The Ironville Experiment (ss) (1919)
  Putting Up a Front (na) (1919)
  Wanted: 100,000,000 Americans (na) (1920)
  The Rising Tide (na) (1920)
  Indirect Action [1] (na) (1920)
  The Guiding Hand (na) (1920)
  Getting the Output (na) (1920)
  The Radical Revolution (na) (1920)
  The Old Game - and the Changing Players (na) (1920)
  A Message to Russia (na) (1920)
  When England Began to Wake Up (na) (1920)
  Drawing the Cobra's Fangs (na) (1920)
  Books and Bombs (na) (1920)
  Chinese Hazard (na) (1921)
  The Dreams of Asia (na) (1921)
  The House of Intrigue (na) (1921)
  In an Old Venetian Palace (na) (1921)
  Under the Crust of India (na) (1921)
  A European Commonwealth (na) (1921)
  For the Peace of Europe (na) (1921)
  Seeing Is Believing (na) (1921)
  A Gathering of the Vultures (na) (1921)
  Young Player in the Old Game (na) (1921)
  The Great Imposture (na) (1921)
  A Daring Impersonation (na) (1922)
  The Ghost in Charge (na) (1922)
  Mr. Trevor of Boston (na) (1922)
  A Challenge to the Submarine (na) (1922)
  A Major Operation in Politics (na) (1922)
  Government by the People (na) (1922)
  A Question of Finance (na) (1922)
  An Echo from the Russian Debacle (na) (1922)
  The Alliance That Never Was Signed (na) (1922)
  The Oriental Embassy Affair (na) (1922)
  The Propaganda Fund (na) (1922)
  War Clouds in the Balkans (na) (1922)
  When Intrigue Was in Flower (na) (1923)
  A Prescription from Three Specialists (na) (1923)
  The Whispering in Russia (na) (1923)
  Mr. Blynn's Night Off (na) (1923)
  A Mohammedan Adventure (na) (1923)
  The Missing Treaty (na) (1923)
  The Camera-Men (na) (1923)
  Personally Conducted (na) (1923)
  A Short-Sighted Plot (na) (1923)
  The Oriental Menace (na) (1923)
  Man Proposes (na) (1923)
  The Embassy Plot (na) (1923)
  The Windsor Castle Plot (na) (1924)
  What Happened at Windsor (na) (1924)
  The Map of the Mediterranean (na) (1924)
  The House at Harlesden Green! (na) (1924)
  A Night in the Kremlin (na) (1924)
  A Night on Breton Road (na) (1924)
  The Roumanian Entente (na) (1924)
  The Arresting Ray (na) (1924)
  The Traffic in Munitions (na) (1924)
  A Call for Help (na) (1924)
  Jason Hudders, M.P. (na) (1924)
  A Weakening of Morale (na) (1924)
  The Man Who Forgot (na) (1925)
  A Limb of the Old Tree (na) (1925)
  The Business of Annihilation (na) (1925)
  A Turncoat in Parliament (na) (1925)
  The Advantage of the Initiative (na) (1925)
  The One Irresistible Woman (na) (1925)
  Sidetracking a Hypnotist (na) (1925)
  In a London Backwater (na) (1925)
  Production (na) (1925)
  Fear (na) (1925)
  The Herriott Gas (na) (1926)
  To Be - or Not to Be - Annihilated (na) (1926)
  The End of the Submarine (na) (1926)
  That Boasted Isolation (na) (1926)
  Balance Wheels (na) (1926)
  A Cabinet in the Making (na) (1926)
  Framing the Left Wing (na) (1926)
  Cherchez la Femme (na) (1926)
  The Unbearable Note (na) (1926)
  The Attack from Moscow (na) (1927)
  Four of a Kind (na) (1927)
  A Daughter of the Slums (na) (1927)
  The King Business (na) (1927)
  A Radio Double-Cross (na) (1927)
  Thanks to the Kitten (na) (1927)
  Maitre de l'Epee (na) (1927)
  The Specter in the Air (na) (1927)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  An Adventure in Backfire (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  The Resignation of Michael Radayne (na) (1928)
  A Spy in Downing Street (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  A Very Private Conference (na) (1928)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1928)
  A Potentate in Trouble (na) (1929)
  The Mysterious Affair at Clifton Hill (na) (1929)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1929)
  Enemies of Peace (na) (1929)
  The Prince Comes Home (na) (1929)
  Prince Abdool of Afridistan (na) (1929)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1929)
  The Attempt to Cork Suez (na) (1929)
  The Cloud in the East (na) (1929)
  Documents in Code (na) (1929)
  Airways of the Sea (na) (1929)
  What the Australian Had (na) (1929)
  The Twelve-Hour Gas (na) (1930)
  The Carmanian Crisis (na) (1930)
  The Honor of the Trevors (na) (1930)
  Pirates or Patriots (na) (1930)
  The Aylesworth Metal (na) (1930)
  Free Lances in Diplomacy (na) (1930)
  The Parliament Plot (na) (1930)
  A Wireless Bomb (na) (1930)
  The Adventure of Joe Hobbs (na) (1930)
  Trouble in the Balkans (na) (1930)
  "The Maharajah of Bandracore" (na) (1930)
  An Agreement in Code (na) (1930)
  Game of a Royal Pawn (na) (1931)
  Spass of Hamburg (na) (1931)
  Moscow Gets a Jolt (na) (1931)
  The Peace-Time War (na) (1931)
  Indirect Action [2] (na) (1931)
  The Defense of London (na) (1931)
  The Man from Carpathia (na) (1931)
  A Nightmare Ended (na) (1931)
  A King Is Kidnaped (na) (1931)
  The Adventure of Lady Jean (na) (1931)
  The Red Raid (na) (1931)
  The 1931 Air Raid on London (na) (1931)
  The Silencing of John Cowdray (na) (1932)
  The Buildings That Vanished (na) (1932)
  A Manchurian Adventure (na) (1932)
  Behind the Scenes in China (na) (1932)
  When China Fights (na) (1932)
  The Sinews of War (na) (1932)
  An Asiatic Vendetta (na) (1932)
  The Cloud in the Orient (na) (1932)
  Why Devils Came to Manchuria (na) (1932)
  The Putsch That Failed (na) (1932)
  The Return of the Exile (na) (1932)
  The Ghost of a Colossus (na) (1932)
  The Foreign-Office Murder (na) (1933)
  Six Who Could Think (na) (1933)
  The Abducted Premier (na) (1933)
  The Transatlantic Air Mail (na) (1933)
  Planes Across the Sea (na) (1933)
  The Strange Case of Lady Anne (na) (1933)
  The Anchored Island (na) (1942)
 
The International Bureau The Organization and the Sprague Case (nv) (1908)
  The Rescue of a Diplomat (nv) (1908)
  A Dangerous Competitor (nv) (1908)
  The Woodville Rubies (nv) (1908)
  The Order of Green Friars (nv) (1908)
  The Cruise of the Gray Ghost (nv) (1908)
 
Agent of the Government The Antiraguan Affair (ss) (1909)
  A Diplomatic Outrage (ss) (1909)
  A Speculation in Rifles (ss) (1909)
  The Teutonic Agreement (ss) (1909)
  The Mining of the Dardanelles (ss) (1909)
  A Blow at the Entente Cordiale (ss) (1909)
  The Anti-Expansion League (ss) (1909)
  The Commission from Argentina (ss) (1909)
  The Rescue of a Scientist (ss) (1909)