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Max Brand
Do you love stories about the untamed days of the Old West? In "Seor Coyote", Frank Pollard, a small-time rancher down on his luck and owing the bank $500, looks to his legendary friend, Slip Liddell, to give him the money before the banker, Foster, forecloses on his ranch. Liddell refuses to pay Foster, even for his friend. Pollard threatens to do something about it, and then the bank is robbed and Foster shot. Will Liddell help when his friend is accused of the crime? "The Cure of Silver Canyon" is a wonderful Max Brand Western short that blends plenty of drama, action, and emotion into an exciting read. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
John Buchan
Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the mysterious island of Plakos, where Vernon is fascinated by the islands myths. Local superstitions turn to menace as Vernons encounter with a beautiful woman results in obsession and adventure. The Dancing Floor centres on a young English woman, Kore Arabin, who inherits a house on a remote Greek island. Sadly for Kore the locals regard her as a witch, responsible for the failure of their crops, and become convinced she must be sacrificed in order to ensure better harvests in the coming years. Sir Edward Leithen and Vernon Milburne must save her before the islanders sacrifice her. Sir Edward Leithen is a character that features prominently in several other John Buchan novels, including The Power-House, The Gap in the Curtain and others.
Robert W. Chambers
Wealth, romance, adventure and one womans struggle with addiction. This novel fits Robert W. Chambers love of walking the edge of what was acceptable to society at the time and then taking it one step further with tactful grace.
Harold Bindloss
Once Welland wanted to be rich, but it so happened that life linked him to an officers position. Now he has become an avid adventurer. Welland realized that his main occupation was hunting Canadian elk and sailing on a yacht in the Great Lakes. This life seemed boring to him and he wanted to change something on his way.
Robert W. Chambers
Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.
Max Brand
Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the titles Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes eight years earlier. The Darkness at Windon Manor is an entertaining 1923 crime novel written by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust. This moving swiftly tale of mistaken identity, a femme fatale, and a haul of stolen jewels.
Robert E. Howard
The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, Ive marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. Weve marched north far enough.
Zane Grey
The Day of the Beast is the story of Daren Lane and hundreds of thousands like him in the years immediately after the conclusion of WWI, disabled soldiers returning home to an America that simply didnt want to be reminded of what just took place. His fiancée has forgotten him, his job has been filled, and his poor health is failing quickly. But Lane is not one to be kept down, and with the true love of a strong woman, Lane will overcome every tragedy. It is set in Middletown USA. Zane Gray (1875-1939), master storyteller of the frontier and the outdoors, in The Day of the Beast gives tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War.