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Mary Cholmondeley
This book focuses on the social exclusion and marginalization of respectable women in the context of their response to risk. Of the four stories included in the collection, three deal with crime, deviance, or both.
Guy Boothby
Each person at some point in his life begins an adventure, after which he is destined to look back with a sensation very close to surprise. Someone said that adventure is for adventure. The vocation of a sailor in these times of giant steamboats is so much different from what it was in the old days of sailing ships and long voyages, that with the most ordinary luck, a person could easily climb along the ridges from the apprentice to the skipper less danger than that with which one might come across at the merchants London office.
Andrzej Boruszewski
Nie, nie śniła mu się, w każdym razie nic mu o tym nie wiadomo. Dlaczego więc o niej pomyślał, gdy się obudził? Przecież nie z powodu wyrzutów sumienia, bo tych nie powinien mieć. Nie powinien, czyli ma? Do diabła z tym. Jest środek lata, dokładnie dwudziesty lipca, przez ostatnie dziesięć lat nikt nie zginął, nikogo nie zamordowała żadna stara baba i żaden pieprzony łoś – to są wystarczające powody, żeby się uśmiechnąć do pękniętej żyłki Tomczewskiej. Na sali sądowej doprowadził ją do takiego stanu, że dostała wylewu i jeśli teraz w ogóle gdzieś miesza, to w ośrodku leczniczo-rehabilitacyjnym. Jedyne, co może zrobić, to podciąć komuś nogę albo napluć do kawy. Nie udowodnił kobiecie winy, ale przynajmniej pozbył się jej z miasta. Łosia chyba też, skoro od tego czasu w Typinie panuje spokój. W Typinie tak, ale nie w jego głowie. To przez ten sen. Grzmoty, błyskawice, jakieś krzyki, wrzaski, szczęk żelaza… Nie miał pojęcia co to było. I po to po aferze z Tomczewską zgodził się iść na emeryturę, żeby teraz psuły mu humor takie głupie sny? Ci, którzy znają dwie pierwsze części, wiedzą o co chodzi. Tym, którzy nie znają, nie powinno to przeszkadzać. (Chociaż lepiej czytać po kolei.) Tym razem narzędziem zbrodni jest prąd elektryczny. Pomimo tego, że łosie rzadko go używają, łoś z ulewskich lasów - obok Peruna, słowiańskiego boga błyskawicy i pioruna - znowu staje się jednym z podejrzanych. Dobrej zabawy życzy autor.
R. Austin Freeman
The Magic Casket Thorndike solves the mystery of the box in order to locate a jewel stolen from a client and get rid of the dastardly Japanese who are after them in every way.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Captain Jan Henderson master of the cargo ship Henrietta Anne trading between London and Holland is working with mysterious conspirators (Sir Gregory Fawsitt and Lady Judith Martellon) to smuggle goods from Holland to London. His deck boy, David, falls in love with Judy, a pretty dancer. When Anthony Loman, an haggard traveler, staggers up the stairs of the tenement house at Bunters Buildings, Judy listens while he is flung to his death. As Police Sergeant Sanders investigation draws closer to the truth, will the killers be brought to justice? The Magnificent Hoax is a novel of drug-smuggling with yacht cruises to the Orient, Scotland Yard, aristocratic beauties and Londons waterfront.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This 1907 novel was one of the early popular novels of society by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story revolves around the conflict between a gentlemans obligation to defend the honor of a lady, and his responsibility to his own feelings, family, and freedom. Sir Wingrave, imprisoned wrongfully for killing a man, finishes his sentence and plans his vengeance against those who would not tell the truth to help him during his trial. He becomes misanthropic, seeking only revenge. He wishes to be a malefactor, doing only evil. His class, upbringing, and social ties all mitigate his evil. A young journalist, enamored with the thought of spending time with a man with such a history, offers himself as a secretary. Does Sir Wingrave succeed in taking his vengeance? Does his secretary betray him or help him?
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. The Man and His Kingdom is set in an imaginary South American Republic. The hero is a benevolent English millionaire and ex-Member of Parliament who, after many adventures, marries the Presidents beautiful daughter and attempts to rules in his stead. It is a brilliant, nervous, intensely dramatic tale of love, intrigue, and revolution in a South American State. If you have a fondness for early 20th century adventure you should find this to be an entertaining read.
Edgar Wallace
Lew Daney, chief suspect in a jewel robbery and an ensuing murder, vanishes leaving no trace. Once he saved Mary Grier from a knife attack by a madman. Mary Grier now works at Clench House in Scotland as secretary to the miserly Mr. Arkwright, and Mr. Arkwrights nephew and heir is "Tiger" Tim Jordan, an ex-Colonial police officer now holidaying in England and seeking work with Scotland Yard. Jordan doesnt get much of a holiday but he does get the job, after proving his mettle in pursuit of a murderous criminal Lew Daney. "The Man at the Carlton" is a fast-paced, with good twists and turns, an unusual criminal story with a lot of scenery-changes and adventures.