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Guy Boothby
The story of the liberation of a Russian prisoner from an island in eastern Siberia. A young English millionaire thinks he is saving the father of his beloved, famous nihilist; but when a person is safe, he discovers that he really shot down the most notorious diamond robber in the world. The story is full of sensations, and people who like such a fantasy will find it vibrant and lively from start to finish.
Arthur Morrison
Fourth and last collection of detective fiction featuring Martin Hewitt, a famous private detective whose methods closely resemble those of Sherlock Holmes. The plot lines of all six linked sensation stories in this collection center on the mystery of the Red Triangle, a group of villains known only from the Red Triangle left stamped on the heads of their victims, and the actions of Martin Hewitt and his narrator, esteemed journalist Mr. Brett, in bringing the members of that group to justice. This work includes the following stories: The affair of Samuels diamonds, The case of Mr. Jacob Mason, The case of the Lever Key, The case of the burnt barn, The case of the Admiralty code and The adventure of Channel Marsh.
Edgar Wallace
In 1919-1920 Edgar Wallace wrote a series of ten short stories featuring the investigative reporter York Symon for publication in the British monthly The Novel Magazine. In 1928 the series was reprinted in Pearsons Weekly. In the following year Edgar Wallace collected nine of the stories in a book entitled The Reporter. The Reporter is a detective story about a police reporter named Wise Symon and his tricks of the trade. A collection presents 9 short stories that include The Writings of Maconochie Hoe, The Crime of Gai Joi, The Safe Deposit at the Social Club, and the two connected stories The Case of Crook Beresford and The Last Throw of Crook Beresford. The stories are fast-paced and well written but definitely a product of their time and place!
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
H.C. McNeile
A stranger comes to the house of detective Hugh Bulldog Drummond asking for help. Hugh is always ready to get down to business. However, two overseers abruptly appear, asking about a man named Morris, the famous assassin who escaped from Dartmoor. The detective says that they are looking for the wrong man and helps the criminal to hide. So who is this stranger?
Valentine Williams
An Espionage/Adventure Classic! With The Return of Clubfoot, Valentine Williams has penned a thrilling page-turner of mystery, love, adventure, and intrigue. Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for an island in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead and who had shot his brother Francis, has anticipated him. The circumstances of how Okewood gains knowledge of the treasure and the subsequent pursuit by Okewoods nemesis, Clubfoot, in which the millionaires pretty daughter takes a prominent part, made for a fast-paced, suspenseful, and entertaining read highlighted by a romantic interest and a satisfying ending.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This collection of stories consists of: "The Adventure of the Empty House" "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" "The Adventure of the Priory School" "The Adventure of Black Peter" "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" "The Adventure of the Three Students" "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" "The Adventure of the Second Stain"
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrated Edition
Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Sidney Edward Paget, a famous British illustrator, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine. The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. All of the stories are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes friend, assistant and sometime flatmate.
Hulbert Footner
After a minimal education in Canada, Footner emigrated to New York in 1898 and worked at a variety of jobs, including an unsuccessful stint as an actor. He turned to journalism and worked for a time as a freelancer, contributing articles to periodicals such as Field and Stream. His first works were primarily travelogues of various river trips in Canada and the U.S., although he did produce some adventure novels. He is also credited with introducing the first American female investigator in Madame Storey. So we are introduced to the fascinating Madame Rosika Storey, fearless and intelligent, who plays cat-and-mouse with killers, goes undercover to break up criminal gangs, and unravels deadly mysteries.
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame
Thomas W. Hanshew
This is another classic of golden-age detective fiction featuring Detective Hamilton Cleek who was introduced in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces first published in 1913. This super sleuth and master of disguise will bedazzle you once more as he ingeniously solves a new case. Without the logical mind and condescending manners of Doyles Sherlock Holmes, Hamilton Cleek worms into your heart through your eyes and via your brain. In this tale, Cleek investigates the sinister disappearance of people and the mysterious appearance of flames at night in the desolate Fens, and his friend Superintendent Narkom of Scotland Yard tries to solve some tricky cases of bank robberies in London. Using disguises, clues, and his brain he solves several mysteries in one.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light
Thomas W. Hanshew
In The Riddle of the Mysterious Light, consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when hes intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious neer-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently collected in a series of books. Cleek is a detective as remarkable as Sherlock Holmes. He has, however, the prime quality of always being in an apparently hopeless tangle of circumstances, and he has also the genius of getting out. The Cleek stories were written by Thomas W. Hanshew, until his death in 1914. His wife, Mary E. Hanshew, then took over this popular pulp mystery series.
Thomas W. Hanshew
Sherlock Holmes fans will find a lot to like in Thomas W. Hanshews The Riddle of the Night. Thomas W. Hanshew (1857-1914), who also wrote as Charlotte Mary Kingsley, was an American author and actor best known for his stories of Hamilton Cleek, the man of the forty faces, who through his talents for disguise solves crime and mystery in London. He wrote some books in collaboration with his wife, Mary E Hanshew. In it, renowned consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is faced with a puzzling set of facts. A gruesome murder that transpired in the dark of night is accompanied by the scantest of clues, including a set of scrawled numbers and a scrap of paper. Can Cleek get to the bottom of this confounding case?
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor
Thomas W. Hanshew
Hamilton Cleek, once known to Scotland Yard as The Vanishing Cracksman is a reformed crook turned detective. He has a gift for both deduction and impersonation, a curious combination of Sherlock Holmes and Peter Sellars, which he uses to solve mysteries. After a long Channel crossing, Cleek drives a lady home only to discover her aunt has been murdered. But the mystery has only just begun. It leads to a mysterious and sinister chain of events, which Cleek and Superintendent Maverick Narkom of Scotland Yard attempt to unravel, with, of course, the help of the irrepressible and ever-hungry Dollops, Cleeks cockney sidekick. As excitingly improbable a detective story as ever baffled and allured the breathless reader, The Riddle of the Purple Emperor has all the thrills of adventure and murder and hate and love embroidered on the groundwork of a plot as precisely worked out as a problem in mathematics.
Fred M. White
Infrequently puzzles can be solved. However, the main character, inspector Norcliff, is trying to solve this problem. The inspector had no resemblance to the average detective fiction; Indeed, he represented the exterior much more like a successful middle-aged businessman, than a hunter of his fellow creatures. He was the best in the business. Therefore, he was ready to take on a new business with great enthusiasm.
The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel
Thomas W. Hanshew
Hamilton Cleek is a renaissance man for the ages: an intellectual giant with the brawn of ten men, he serves as a consulting detective, often helping Scotland Yard with particularly challenging cases. With the power to distort and transform his visage and mimic any mannerism he desires, Cleek, with the assistance of his cockney assistant Dollops, makes a super natural detective! In The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel, a young woman concerned that the turmoil in her family could lead to her fathers murder seeks help from Mr. Cleek of Scotland Yard. Her fear comes to pass when a room is pitched into darkness and the strange sound of a spinning wheel is the omen of death. Cleek finds himself at the center of a confounding whodunit. Will this be the mystery that finally pushes him over the edge?
Edgar Wallace
Perhaps Edgar Wallaces best-known book, originally published under the title The Gaunt Stranger in 1925. Inspector Wemburys day turns from bad to worse when a legendary assassin who was supposed dead in Australia returns to London seeking vengeance for the murder of his sister. Scotland Yard know the Ringer had left his sister in the care of unscrupulous lawyer Maurice Meister and that she was later found drowned, so they warn Meister that the Ringer is in London. Who is the Ringer? It will be a clever reader who can spot him before the very end of the story. An exiting page tuner full of intrigue and mystery, The Ringer is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction.
Joanna Śweiątkowska
Nerissa Langley to ambitna i pewna siebie kobieta, której stabilna pozycja specjalisty w dziale finansowym w międzynarodowej firmie medialnej chwieje się, gdy do siedziby wraca syn właściciela. Leonardo Voight nie kryje swojej niechęci do podwładnej. Wzajemnie podkopują swoją pozycję w firmie, próbując zdyskredytować się w oczach współpracowników. Znająca swoją wartość Nerissa obiecała sobie, że nigdy więcej jej życie nie będzie zależne od woli silniejszego od niej mężczyzny. W momencie gdy jej związek z Nate'em - detektywem wydziału zabójstw - przechodzi kryzys z powodu niezgodności dotyczącej tematu założenia rodziny, Nerissa zbliża się z Leo, dostrzegając w nim kogoś więcej niż tylko rywala. Między wrogami rodzi się cienka nić przyjaźni i pożądania, komplikująca dotychczasowe relacje. Gdy Nerissie wydaje się, że jej życie wróciło na właściwy tor, nieoczekiwanie pojawia się w nim biologiczny ojciec. Kiedy mężczyzna zostaje znaleziony martwy, Langley staje się główną podejrzaną, a jej życie zamienia się w koszmar. Musi stawić czoła nie tylko zarzutom, lecz także demonom przeszłości. Skrywane sekrety wychodzą na jaw, a nic nie boli bardziej niż zdrada bliskich osób. "Rywale" to pełna napięcia opowieść o ambicji, zemście, lojalności, nieoczekiwanej miłości oraz rywalizacji, w której Nerissa Langley udowodni, jak silna potrafi być kobieta, gdy stawką jest wszystko, co kocha.