The Metal Monster

Otis Adelbert Kline

Originally published in 1931, The Metal Monster is a classic science-fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946), best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mar. When the most powerful artillery, deadly bacteria and explosives known, and the most destructive methods available fail to be effective against some enemys unknown weapon of war, it is time, very frequently, to turn to some simple means of combat and attack. Paradoxically, though, it is the simple thing that is so difficult to hit upon. In fact, like some of the greatest discoveries and inventions, the most destructive chemical solutions are often discovered by sheer accident. For instance, who could ever have thought purposefully of the chemical that was finally adopted by the hero of this story?

Larry of Lonesome Lake

Harold Bindloss

In summer, the Pacific Canadian slope is beautiful, and the time was on Sunday afternoon. The aim of Lawrence Bethune was the amount he wanted to withdraw from a bank in Vancouver. In Canada, he had to work hard. After all, the weak do not survive there. Therefore, he moved to the Pacific slope, where he could show his force and stand out there. But by what qualities? Rudeness and violence? Did he rely on it?

The Romance of the Secret Service Fund

Fred M. White

There are several families, without any secrets or rumors, and the Amory were no exception to this rule. Servants in the house and people in the village used to talk about Lady Amory with a significant look or smile, depending on the circumstances. Sir Gabriel Amory spent most of his time in the south of France and was not in England for many years, while his wife was not seen until he died. All wealth passed to her. It will soon turn out that Lady Amory is not as clean as many think.

Caesar Dies

Talbot Mundy

Putting Crime Over by Hulbert Footner. When Madame Roska Storey and her secretary are robbed, a plan is put in place to catch the robbers as well as their leader. She is the best private detective of England, but her stories are international. Her way to resolve the mystery is original and bring you in a new world. 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. A strange, yet interesting tale that was actually written in the 1920s.

Kłopoty babuni

Bolesław Prus

Żartobliwie przedstawione sceny z życia obyczajowego społeczeństwa. Centralną postacią utworu Kłopoty babuni jest pewien pułkownik, którego odwiedza żona jego byłego podwładnego. Osiemdziesięcioletnia majorowa potrzebuje pomocy w kształceniu swego wnuka, Soterka. Staje się to punktem wyjścia do podróży w poszukiwaniu odpowiednich nauczycieli, z których wszyscy okazują się podejrzani i niekompetentni. Sam pułkownik coraz bardziej chce się uwolnić od kłopotliwej i zalecającej się do niego staruszki, stosuje więc rozmaite wybiegi i wchodzi w układy z różnymi poznanymi po drodze osobami.

Allan and the Ice-Gods. A Tale of Beginnings

H. Rider Haggard

Many people want to have a drug in their hands that can change our appearance. Our hero was in the hands of just such a drug. Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic drug taduki, after which he transforms into an incomprehensible creature. He falls in prehistoric times, in cave times. Such an adventure will be definitely interesting.

The Chouans

Honoré de Balzac

Two works of 1829 brought Balzac to the brink of success. Les Chouans, the first novel he felt enough confidence about to have published under his own name, is a historical novel about the Breton peasants called Chouans who took part in a royalist insurrection against Revolutionary France in 1799 that occurred in the region between Brittany and Nantes and Balzac places his story in this accurate historic contest. Balzac is one of Frances greatest storytellers and this particular thriller is one of his most spine-tingling ones. In it, an aristocrat, Marie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché, the terrible minister of police to seduce and capture their leader, the Marquis de Montauran, known as the Guy (le Gars). She must be helped by a skillful, ambitious and unscrupulous policeman, Corentin. But Marie falls in love with her target...

The Unlawful Adventure

Aidan de Brune

How many R S Allersons can there be in Sydney? More to the point, how many gang bosses named R S Allersons? The master mystery-story teller Aidan de Brune presents another breathtaking novel "The Unlawful Adventure", written in 1932. It is a highly entertaining little thriller with absorbing interest and complicated plot. The characters are broadly drawn but vivid, the plot movers along at a breakneck pace, and its rather luridly sensationalistic for its era. The book is highly recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle.

The Eye of Zeitoon

Talbot Mundy

Do you need to talk about Zeitoon? The only thing I can say is that the Turks have never won or won. They came once and built a fort on the opposite side of the mountains to impress us. We took this assault! We dropped all their guns down to the bottom of the stream and there they lie to this day!

Dogs of the Captain

Max Brand

When the character of Cole Lavery first appeared in the 1940s, readers immediately fell in love with this, which had a surprising smile and a quick gun. And, for the first time in a soft cover, all the stories of Cole Lavery were accumulated in one volume. The events in the book are continuously moving from one adventure to the next, when Cole bites with river pirates and the notorious gangster and unfair robber the baron; as he travels to California on a train infected with a donkey; and how he seeks to achieve the land and freedom that can be found only in the American West.

She Faded into Air

Ethel Lina White

Ethel Lina White tried to confuse us again. In the story She Faded into Air a lot of thinking is needed, there is some logical chain. The main character, Evelyn Cross, disappears in a tannic manner when she enters a London apartment. Detectives get down to business, but not so simple.

The Shakespeare Murders

A.G. Macdonell

An amusing thriller by A.G. Macdonell, one of six mysteries he wrote under the pseudonym Neil Gordon. Macdonell is best known for the gently satirical novel England, Their England, which appeared the same year as The Shakespeare Murders and enjoyed a great success, which probably led to his abandoning the mystery genre. In The Shakespeare Murders, the treasure was to be found in an English country house, and it was worth one million pounds, but what was the treasure, was it jewels or something else? Various parties were searching; American gangsters among them, and all had to unravel the clues to be found in the works of Shakespeare. Murder followed murder as the ruthless search continued... Macdonell uses his usual skill, well-dosed with ingenious twists, and a fast moving story-line, to keep the reader riveted to the book.

Der Mann, der seinen Namen änderte

Edgar Wallace

Die Sekretärin von Rechtsanwalt Vance Majorie Stedman wird Ohrenzeuge einer Auseinandersetzung. Sie hört einen Schuss und als sie ins Nachbarzimmer stürmt, findet sie Sir James tot auf dem Boden liegen. Aber wer ist der Täter? Ich will meine Rechnung begleichen, hört sie Sir James sagen. Ihr Chef verlangt von ihr zu schweigen, aber warum musste Sir James sterben und welche Rollen spielen der undurchsichtige Pretoria-Smith und Doktor Fordham?

The Maracot Deep

Arthur Conan Doyle

This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyles life. Published in 1929, only a year before the authors death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracots exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean floor, and discover a very unexpected world, in fact a civilisation, deep beneath the waves. They are introduced to a remarkable and ancient society that expands their knowledge of human civilizations history and then even more so, their understanding of planes of existence.Their visions of the future of humanity possess an optimism and a romance that simply isnt possible to writers today.

A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel

Thomas Hardy

The heroine of the novel is a young Elfrid. She can easily charm anyone with the look of her blue eyes. In her life, two appear, a young architect and an experienced writer. Former friends become rivals, and Elfrida is faced with a painful choice.

P.-C. Lee

Edgar Wallace

This unique thriller collection contains the 24 short vintage crime stories a complete series featuring Police Constable Lee of the London D Division, written by the great Edgar Wallace. P.-C. Lee is a typical Wallace character, full of wit and charm. A number of these were reprinted in Ideas in 1928-1929 and in other magazines. Nine of the P.-C. Lee stories were later included in the 1961 collection The Undisclosed Client and Other Stories. Written by prolific writer Edgar Wallace, creator of J. G. Reeder, and a dozen more characters in his dozens of books and hundreds of short stories, his publishers once claimed that a quarter of all books then read (in the 1910-1920s) in England were written by him.