{{short description|1917 novel}} {{infobox book| | name = The Definite Object | title_orig = | translator = | image =File:The Definite Object.jpg | caption = | author = Jeffrey Farnol | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | genre = Crime, Romance | publisher = Sampson Low | release_date = 1917 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Definite Object''''' is a 1917 crime romance novel by the British writer Jeffery Farnol.<ref>Speirs p.55</ref> It was published in London by Sampson Low and in Boston by Little, Brown.<ref>Vinson p.259</ref> A popular success in the United States, it was included on the ''Publisher Weekly's'' list of ten bestselling novels that year. Set in New York City, it features a millionaire bored with his life who pretends to be a lowlife and falls in with a gang of criminals.
==Adaptations== It has been adapted into films twice: a 1920 silent British film ''The Definite Object'' directed by Edgar J. Camiller and starring Ann Elliott and ''Manhattan'' a 1924 silent American film produced by Paramount Pictures starring Richard Dix and Jacqueline Logan.<ref>Goble p.151</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Bryan, Pat. ''Farnol: The Man Who Wrote Best-Sellers''. 2002. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Speirs, Arlene Louise. ''Best-selling American Fiction in the War Years, 1914-1918''. University of Iowa, 1942. * Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982.
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