Sinners Beware

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another collection of interlinked short stories about the good life in Monte Carlo and Beausoleil after the first World War. Ten stories about Peter Hames, the former Inspector on the New York police department that got tossed off the force when he tried to stop an innocent man being railroaded by a corrupt police force. Disillusioned, but after inheriting a million dollars, he moves to France to become a painter. But the detective instincts never left and he gets involved in various adventures. Oppenheim follows three characters through adventures wherein they solve crimes, thwart criminals, and are duped by professionals.

Above the Dark Circus

Hugh Walpole

This novel is served with a psychological detective dressing. In reality, this is a mixture of experiences, feelings and thoughts of the protagonist, describing events that in any case should end in tragedy. This is not hidden from the very beginning. Everything that happens is written very atmospheric, gradually thickening events to an inevitable outcome.

Beatrice

H. Rider Haggard

Beatrice is one of the most emotional works written by Henry Rider Haggard. There are no crazy adventures, frightening battles or supernatural events, but there is everything for the soul, for easy reading. It tells of the ill-fated love between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried Welsh teacher, and Jeffrey Bingham, a wretchedly married lawyer who lives in London. It all starts after Beatrice saved Jeffreys life in a canoe accident during a huge storm. This is a story about a tangled love triangle, and possibly a pentagon.

LUscoque

George Sand

Ceci est un roman historique. Les événements tournent autour de trois gars. Laccent est mis sur les pirates qui ont navigué en Croatie, o les événements vont se dérouler. Cette histoire sera appréciée par les lecteurs de tout âge. Ils trouveront quelque chose de nouveau et dintéressant pour eux-mmes.

The Dark Eyes of London

Edgar Wallace

The Dark Eyes Of London is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in 1924. Inspector Holt and his valet Sunny are planning a visit to Monte Carlo when an urgent telegram arrives from the Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard. Mr. Gordon Stuart has been found drowned in suspicious circumstances. An unbalanced doctor and his brother murder a series of wealthy men to benefit from their life insurance policies, using a charity for the blind as a front for their activities. Holt returns on the same boat as Flash Fred Grogan, continental crook and gambler. Attempting to solve the mystery leads Holt into a string of exciting adventures and romance. It was based on an earlier short story The Croakers which Wallace had written.

Charles Rex

Ethel M. Dell

A romance originally published in 1922 that holds up very well into the 21st century. Charles Rex is a sequel of The Hundredth Chance written by Ethel May Dell (1881-1939) who was a British writer of popular romance novels. Her stories are often full of passion and love and are set in India and other British colonial possessions. Not being a family man, Charles Rex travels widely and to some point aimlessly. On his last night in Italy, he rescues a small boy from a beating by his employer. What leads thereafter is an entanglement of duty, loyalty, love and honor bound marriages. This is a really fast moving, enjoyable romance with an interesting look at English society after the devastation of World War One.

The Million Dollar Story

Edgar Wallace

John Sands needed a bride more than that, however, he needed somebody with a criminal mind. Luckily a female convict has escaped from prison that very morning and was sitting in his house. Romance and mystery, with classic twists and turns. As is typical with Wallace, this book includes a death, a love-affair, a kidnapping, an intrepid amateur. British author Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was reportedly the second biggest seller after the Bible in his heyday. He was a Reuters war correspondent during the Second Boer War and wrote thrillers to earn money. He later moved to Hollywood as a script writer and died while drafting King Kong.

Temple Tower

H.C. McNeile

One of the men is Captain Hugh Bulldog Drummond an officer with a strong desire for adventures. His friend, Peter, who tells this exciting story about a man who fears his life and desperately needs the help of a friend to penetrate the sinister Temple Tower. The author, as always makes an interesting story. The plot is full of dynamics actions.

The Social Gangster

Arthur B. Reeve

The fifth volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures. Craig Kennedy continues to amaze with his usual sorts of crimes jewel theft, missing persons, wrongly accused suspects, fixed horse races, arson, murder, and blackmail but he uses scientific procedures to analyze the evidence, sometimes involving fantastical devices. The Social Gangster is the story focused on a mysterious robbery, which gives a glimpse of a greater threat hanging over social life of big city youngsters. But no one seems to be concerned enough with it, until it is too late. It is up to Kennedy and his science to resolve the case and reduce the impact falling on the society.

Wiersze dla dzieci. Wybór

Władysław Bełza

Władysław Bełza, polski poeta neoromantyczny, jest autorem licznych wierszy dla dzieci. Blisko pięćdziesiąt z nich znalazło się w niniejszym wyborze. Tom otwiera powszechnie znany utwór zaczynający się od słów Kto ty jesteś? Polak mały, czyli Katechizm polskiego dziecka. Jego prosta forma, nawiązująca do dziecięcych wyliczanek, sprawiła, że stanowił on najprostszą formę edukacji patriotycznej najmłodszego pokolenia. Utwór składa się z podstawowych pytań i odpowiedzi o cechy tożsamości młodego Polaka. Ułatwiał zapamiętywanie znaków i symboli narodowych.

Игрок (Gracz)

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fiodor Michajłowicz Dostojewski

В романе, как в зеркале, отразились собственные сомнения, переживания и чаяния автора. Человек азартный, игрок по природе, по складу характера, Достоевский каждый раз словно бросал вызов судьбе, играл с ней, и она отвечала ему тем же. Испытывая серьезные материальные трудности и обещая написать новый роман, писатель заключил с издателем контракт, согласно которому должен был сдать текст в определенный срок, в противном случае лишался прав на издание своих сочинений. 201eИгрока201d он надиктовал за 26 дней своей стенографистке, по совету друзей вызвавшейся помогать знаменитому литератору. Работа была сдана четко в срок, а молодая ассистентка стала женой, с которой в счастливом браке Достоевский прожил до конца жизни. Увлекательный сюжет, любовные коллизии и тяга к игре как смысл бытия 2013 основные темы романа, способного захватить читателя целиком не хуже, чем самая увлекательная игра.

Atomgewicht 500

Hans Dominik

Atomgewicht 500 ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman von Hans Dominik aus dem Jahre 1934. Vor knapp 100 Jahren waren die Phänomene der Kernkraft und Radioaktivität bekannt, aber noch nicht vollständig erforscht und wissenschaftlich endgültig erklärt. Die Hoffnung auf eine friedliche, gefahrlose Nutzung als schier unerschöpfliche Quelle von Energie war groß, was sich auch in der zeitgenössischen phantastischen Literatur niederschlug. Unschuldig waren Wissenschaft und Forschung allerdings längst nicht mehr. Doktor Wandel arbeitet in Amerika per Atomumwandlung an einem Stoff, von dem eine Messerspitze ausreicht, ein ganzes Heizkraftwerk zu ersetzen. Zwei amerikanische Konzerne Dupont Company und United Chemical kämpfen mit allen Mitteln um ihn und seine Erfindung. Es ist ein spannender Wettlauf um die Zeit. Atomgewicht 500 ist ein spannender Roman über Konkurrenz und Industriespionage.

Двенадцать стульев (Dwanaście krzeseł)

Илья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петров, Ilja Arnoldowicz Ilf, Jewgienij Pietrow

Знаменитый роман-фельетон И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова 201eДвенадцать стульев201d 2013 одно из культовых произведений русской литературы ХХ века. Захватывающая история о приключениях двух аферистов Остапа Бендера и Ипполита Воробьянинова в поисках сокровищ мадам Петуховой 2013 бриллиантов, запрятанных в одном из 12-ти стульев, за которыми и устроили настоящую охоту главные герои.

Die gefiederte Schlange

Edgar Wallace

Leicester Crewe bekommt als Erster eine Visitenkarte mit einer gefiederten Schlange und der Nachricht Damit sie es nicht vergessen! . Ella Creed schlendert langsam durch den nächtlichen Garten auf ihr Haus. Wenn Sie schreien, drehe ich Ihnen den Hals um! zischt eine Stimme. Ella fährt jäh zusammen. Sie taumelt zurück... Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, ist ihr wertvoller Schmuck verschwunden. Statt dessen findet sie eine Karte mit dem Bild einer gefiederten Schlange. Während Leicester Crewe eine Art Drohung dahinter vermutet, machen sich die anderen Empfänger einer solchen Karte keine großen Gedanken darüber. Das ändert sich jedoch, als kurze Zeit später ein Adressat dieser Visitenkarte auf offener Straße erschossen wird.

Collected Short Stories (Vol. 8). Collected Short Stories. Volume 8

Arthur Conan Doyle

The eighth issue features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction. These are the next to last of the series of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Some are set before the Great War, the last takes place in 1914. Holmes is retired and refused to take on any more cases, preferring to live out his years in a small rural village. His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, plus the one-off title story, also called A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge was originally in two parts: The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles and The Tiger of San Pedro. Each story has a completely different plot which goes on smoothly till the end.

The Valley of Decision

Edith Wharton

Published in 1902, The Valley of Decision is Edith Whartons first full length novel set in late 18th century Italy. In it, Odo Valsecca, a young Italian raised by peasants, is plucked from poverty and dropped into the lap of luxury as the newly named heir to his cousin, a duke. It is the time leading up to the French revolution, and Europe swirls with conflicting factions and ideologies, some trying to prop up the feudal and religious traditions that empowered them, and others seeking a new way. Meanwhile, in France, a revolution is brewing... Forced to choose between conflicting loyalties those to the forces of social reform with which he allied himself before he came to power, or those of the feudal tradition to which he belongs by blood Odo must define himself.