title: Tarzan: The Lost Adventures
author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
description: Meanwhile, back in the jungle, fans of the ape man no longer have to monkey around with imitators. Horror writer Landsdale completed a manuscript left unfinished by Burroughs at the time of his death and delivers a new Tarzan adventure. (Classic Returns, LJ 7/97)<BR>Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Beasts of Tarzan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  
  
  
  
  To Joan Burroughs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter 1. Kidnapped
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  "The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot.
  
  
  "I have it on the best of authority that neither the police
  
  
  nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest
  
  
  conception of how it was accomplished. All they know,
  
  
  all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  John Clayton, Lord Greystoke--he who had been "Tarzan of the Apes"--
  
  
  sat in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D'Arnot,
  
  
  in Paris, gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the escape of
  
  
  his arch-enemy from the French military prison to which he
  
  
  had been sentenced for life upon the testimony of the ape-man.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had 