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Edgar Wallace
Alva Collins, the mentally unbalanced wife of airline pilot Evan Collins, wants her husband to leave his job. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate. However, she is tragically killed when someone throws a hive of bees into her bedroom. Police deduce that whoever was responsible knew that Alva was allergic to the insects, and suspicion immediately falls on her husband. This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1926. We Shall See is a classic mystery novel by this pioneer of the detective genre.
Kamilla Oresvärd
Gdy młoda Lisa-Marie ginie w tajemniczych okolicznościach w czasie nocy poślubnej, społeczność Vargön nie może wyjść z szoku. Mona Schiller, była sędzina, a przy tym nieustraszona i silna kobieta, która wróciła do rodzinnej miejscowości po wielu latach spędzonych za granicą, zostaje wciągnięta w policyjne śledztwo. W miarę jak zgłębia sprawę, poznaje zupełnie inne oblicze nie tylko Lisy-Marie, ale także miejsca, w którym się wychowała. Welon Panny Młodej to pierwsza część serii o dawnej osadzie robotniczej Vargön, której mieszkańcy skrywają ogrom tajemnic. Mona Schiller stara się je odkryć, a przy tym zmaga się z własnymi demonami.
Daniel Bachrach
Opowiadanie kryminalne warszawskiego Sherlocka Holmesa" z pierwszej połowy XX wieku, podane z pierwszej ręki. Daniel Bachrach, aspirant Urzędu Śledczego w Warszawie, wspomina sprawę kryminalną, którą prowadził. Młody inteligentny chłopak pochodzący z szanowanej rodziny posiada drugie mroczne oblicze. Wykorzystuje niebywałe zdolności zapamiętywania arystokratycznych rodowodów, by podszywać się pod ich przedstawicieli. Posługując się obcymi nazwiskami, wyłudza ogromne sumy pieniędzy, a następnie... znika bez śladu. Na trop Wesołego Ignasia" trafia znany policjant śledczy Daniel Bachrach. Czy uda mu się dopaść jednego ze słynnych warszawskich niebieskich ptaków? Język, postacie i poglądy zawarte w tej publikacji nie odzwierciedlają poglądów ani opinii wydawcy. Utwór ma charakter publikacji historycznej, ukazującej postawy i tendencje charakterystyczne dla czasów, z których pochodzi.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Major Andrew Forester is a retired British Army officer, of no discernible occupation, who wanders about Europe, England and the United States. He is looking for adventure, but not outside the bounds of the acceptable. He is willing to skirt the law, but not break it. His peripatetic life style brings him in contact with scam artists, gold-diggers, art thieves, industrial spies, taxi dancers, and flappers. Sometimes he benefits from these associations, but at other times he is their victim. He does this all with style, impeccable clothing, and a humorous tolerance of human failings. What Happened to Forester is collection of short stories which includes the following ones: Ange Marie, The modern marauder, The shrew of Madrid, An ethical dilemma, The fugitive of Adelphie terrace, The battling pacifist and others.
H.C. McNeile
A nice collection of short stories from Sapper. Sapper is a master narrator, he has many wonderful stories. One of the fun moments is when Major Dacres shoots himself a finger. Really unusual story, with good humor, for easy reading.
Edgar Wallace
Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, When the Gangs Came to London is rated as one of Edgar Wallaces best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburst of terror even more bloody. Wallace wrote this one towards the end of his life, he may even have been in Hollywood when he wrote it which could explain the very old school Hollywood gangsters!
J.S. Fletcher
Outside the city of Sycaster, they found small villages. In the villages themselves, the observant traveler often finds traces of old houses, which, no doubt, were picturesque and calculated in those times when agriculture was preferred to coal mining. In these villages, there is something secretive that will have to razgodat.
Carolyn Wells
Fleming Stone 23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Jim Pennington reports his wife Pauline, Emilys best friend, also missing. Pennington says he left his wife at the ravine a short distance from Emilys home. When he returned she had vanished. Pollys body is found in the ravine, but wheres Emily? A wonderful mystery abound with twists and turns on every corner. Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, Wheres Emily, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense!