🔖 The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions, and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe. First published in 1903, with six etched portraits from contemporary engravings. The Reverend Thomas Firminger Thistelton-Dyer (1848-1923) was an English writer of popular non-fiction books who was particularly admired for his ability to combine in-depth research with the suspense and excitement normally associated with the nascent art of detective fiction.