Mary Ferrera spielt System

Edgar Wallace

Ein elegantes, bezauberndes und sehr attraktives Mädchen Mary Ferrera reist nach Monte Carlo. Sie taucht im Kasino auf und sie sich Miss Hicks nennt, denn sie ist spielsüchtig und möchte inkognito bleiben. Beim Spielen setzt sie immer den Höchstbetrag und sie gewinnt große Beträge. Sie scheint ein festes System zu haben...

Melodia śmierci

Edgar Wallace

Wybredny Gilbert Standerton w wieku trzydziestu dwóch lat postanowił nareszcie się ożenić. Jego romantyczna dusza zapałała uczuciem do młodziutkiej Edyty na tyle intensywnie, że ignorował on oziębłość ze strony narzeczonej. W trakcie miesiąca miodowego mężczyzna usłyszy od swojej świeżo poślubionej żony, jakie były prawdziwe motywy jej zamążpójścia. Tymczasem w światku londyńskich włamywaczy pojawia się tajemniczy osobnik. W 1922 r. książka została zaadaptowana na niemy film pt. "The Melody of Death".

Milczący mówca

Edgar Wallace

Zimowe popołudnie, wykwintne przyjęcie ślubne. W wystawnej sali kłębią się szacowni goście - bawią się rozmową, dowcipkują, oglądają prezenty przyniesione dla pary młodej. Wśród nich, nieco na uboczu, stoi milczący O. Rater, nazywany przekornie Mówcą. Tylko on może podejrzewać, że ten uroczy bankiet da początek sensacyjnym wydarzeniom. Zbiór dwunastu opowiadań Wallace'a połączonych postacią tajemniczego Oratora, który rozprawia się z najbardziej przebiegłymi przestępcami Londynu lat dwudziestych. Pozycja dla miłośników krótkich, mrożących krew w żyłach opowieści z wątkiem kryminalnym.

More Educated Evans

Edgar Wallace

The further escapades of the incorrigible Evans, Edgar Wallaces? cockney hero of the Turf feature in these twelve tales. The Educated Evans stories combine Wallaces talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. His story of Evans is full of amusing incidents of love and adventure set amidst the bustle and excitement of the racecourse. There are bets, bookmakers, horses, tip-offs, winners, journalists and women. There is banter, humor and much fun to be had along the way. It is not only race-lovers who will love Evans, but lovers of life itself. Experience the stories as only Edgar Wallace could write it!

Mr. Justice Maxell

Edgar Wallace

Mr. Justice Maxell follows the story of two business partners, Maxell and Cartwright, one of whom becomes a judge and sentences the other to prison, the woman they both marry, and their respective cousins whom they take on as their own wards. Spanning roughly a decade, the plot hinges on multiple coincidences involving mutual acquaintances meeting one another at critical points on different continents, and maintains much of its suspense by instilling most of its main characters with shady backgrounds and dubious motivations. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

Mrs. William Jones and Bill

Edgar Wallace

This mystery collection, written by British author Edgar Wallace, contains the following works: Mrs. William Jones and Bill, The Adventures of George, According to Freud, Bondage, The Society of Bright Young People, The King and the Editor, Christmas Presents. Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G. Reeder. Although Wallace wrote many stand alone novels it is, perhaps, for his series based material-always popular with readers-that he remains best known. He was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era.

Nig-Nog and Other Humorous Stories

Edgar Wallace

Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories is a collection of short humorous stories that include Jimmys Brother, Sentimental Simpson, Chubb of the Slipper, and many more. There are reasons worth exploring why Edgar Wallace was so successful in his writings and amongst them were his imagination, cleverness, and humor as demonstrated in these initial short stories, especially Nig- Nog (making an in-your-face patent medicine pedlar and a burglar endearing characters, and flipping the story endings upside down with nifty consequences is the work of a genius with a sense of humor). Edgar Wallace provides a humor of another sort!

Nobby

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallaces humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of Smithy and Nobby. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us about the every-day life of the soldiers and are supposed to be, in turns, funny, moving, or even sometimes tragic. This substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War. Although this book like the earlier Smithy and The Hun was published during the First World War, the stories it contains, unlike the other book were all written and deal with events Pre-War.