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.

Jaszczur

Honoriusz Balzak

Powieść Jaszczur Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Studiów filozoficznych cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się bezpośrednio po rewolucji lipcowej, kiedy to na tron wstąpił Ludwik Filip I. Główny bohater utworu, dwudziestopięcioletni Rafael de Valentin, postanawia wówczas popełnić samobójstwo. Przegrał bowiem w kasynie ostatnie posiadane pieniądze. Przypadkiem trafia do sklepu z dziełami sztuki. Właściciel sklepu pokazuje Rafaelowi kawałek jaszczuru z inskrypcją w sanskrycie. Mówi ona, że właściciel jaszczura będzie mógł spełnić każde swoje marzenie, jednak równocześnie skóra będzie się kurczyć. Kiedy zniknie całkowicie, jej posiadacz umrze...

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, syn kupca w mieście Hull nie chce wieść nudnego żywota jak jego ojciec. Jako 17-latek ucieka z domu i płynie do Londynu. Pierwszy statek, którym płynie, rozbija się. Robinson trafia na drugi okręt i tam uczy się sztuki żeglarskiej. Po pewnym czasie, chce wracać do domu, ale kapitan Smith namawia go, by popłynął z nim do Gwinei, a gdy tam dorobi się majątku, zostanie łaskawiej przyjęty przez ojca. Podczas kolejnej podróży statek zostaje napadnięty, a Robinson, wraz z innymi, wzięty do niewoli mauretańskiej, z której po dwóch latach ucieka. Płynie do Brazylii, gdzie staje się plantatorem. 30 września 1659, podczas wyprawy po niewolników, statek rozbija się. Robinson jest jedynym ocalałym. Trafia na bezludną wyspę, gdzie przyjdzie mu spędzić następne 28 lat. Postać Robinsona Crusoe była wzorowana na prawdziwych losach Aleksandra Selkirka, szkockiego żeglarza, który w latach 1704-1709 spędził cztery lata na wyspie Más a Tierra (obecnie wyspa Robinson Crusoe), u wybrzeży Chile.

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.

Desert Gold

Zane Grey

Which is the true treasure, love or money? Prospecting in an Arizona border town, Richard Gale sees the possibilities of passion and gold when he finds himself trying to save a beautiful Spanish heiress. Love, adventure, and more wait in the Old West of Zane Greys western classic Desert Gold. When Richard Gale arrives in the border country of Arizona, he hopes for a brand new start. He soon finds himself embroiled in local trouble, however, when he and an old friend a Texas Ranger attempt a daring rescue. The victim, the daughter of a murdered rancher, has been kidnapped by a cruel bandit named Rojas. Challenging him means almost certain death for Richard, but as he escapes with the beautiful seorita into the desert, his adventure turns into something unexpected.

The Flirting Fool

Aidan de Brune

De Brunes novel The Flirting Fool is a thrilling court-room melodrama previously only published as a newspaper serial. The story is fast-paced with some surprising twists, well written and great to read. Readers of Aidan de Brunes novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. Nineteen novel length serials, two novella serials, and eighteen short stories, all except one published in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1926 and 1935. Other novels by De Brune were reputedly published in the USA under various pseudonyms, but these have not been traced.

Le Château des Désertes

George Sand

Nous sommes transportés vers une campagne idéalisée, o tout le monde se connaît, o lair est pur et les actions naturelles. Lintrigue est la fois simple et sans complications. Comme une comédie derreurs, il est construit sur les illusions des personnages: ils pensent tous que ce nest pas ce que cest. Et dans le mme temps, dans la pratique, tout est tres simple, les intrigues complexes se déroulent sans difficulté, ce qui est fourni par le narrateur le vieil avocat Chantebel.

Old-Ugly Face

Talbot Mundy

The Tibetan lama, with a great sense of joy, leads two people from the west to enlightenment, fighting with enemies in Tibet in this interesting story of adventure and spiritual discoveries. This is Mundis latest novel, The sequel to the dramatic dragon gates. The Nazi expedition in Tibet is torn apart by American and British agents of the special services.

Les Quarante-cinq

Alexandre Dumas pere

Les Quarante-cinq est le troisieme tome de la trilogie des Guerres de Religion dAlexandre Dumas. La période historique décrite est fascinante, style du romancier est comme toujours intrigant, Dumas veut tout décrire et tout montrer. Henri III est le roi treize ans apres le bain de sang de la Saint-Barthélemy en une triste année de 1585. Il est le roi dans une France plus que jamais écartelée par les conflits religieux. Le destin de la France tient parfois un fil capricieux...

Children of the Wind

M.P. Shiel

M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. Children of the Wind adventure set in South Central Africa. A lost race novel. An English scientist learns that the White Queen of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance. There are tribal warfare including biological warfare, lesbianism, and vibrant plotting a full-blooded story done in Shiel s fabulously refreshing style written after a ten-year hiatus. Highly recommended!

On the Spot. Violence and Murder in Chicago

Edgar Wallace

Set in Chicago, and written in 1931 by Edgar Wallace, On the Spot truly reflects the horror of gang life in Prohibition Chicago. Tony Perelli, the gang boss, recruits men for his gang and women for his bed with the same ruthlessness and rapidly arranges for their disposal when they become a nuisance. But Minn Lee, the half-Chinese widow, is a little too much for him, and as she gradually learns the extent of his treachery, she plans a revenge... The constant threat of death, the interaction between cops and gangsters, love gone wrong, love gone right, loss of youth, bootlegging, prostitution... its all here and beautifully handled by Edgar Wallace.

Na jedną kartę. Dramat w pięciu aktach

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz to nie tylko autor niezapomnianych powieści i nowel, lecz także twórca sztuk scenicznych. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla był także świetnym dramaturgiem. Na jedną kartę to sztuka społeczno-obyczajowa. Jej premiera odbyła się we Lwowie 14 marca 1879 r. W dwa lata później dramat wystawiono w warszawskim Teatrze Rozmaitości. Bohaterem dramatu Na jedną kartę jest człowiek z nizin społecznych, doktor Józwowicz, wychowanek i lekarz księcia Starogrodzkiego, a zarazem działacz polityczny ugrupowania demokratycznego. Prowadzi on grę polityczną i wyborczą jako kandydat na posła demokratów. Jednocześnie stara się zdobyć rękę córki księcia Starogrodzkiego, Stelli. Na drodze do szczęści stoi jednak narzeczony Stelli, Jerzy Pretwic. Józwowicz postanawia usunąć z drogi rywala. Knuje intrygę, którą doprowadza do pojedynku narzeczonego Stelli z Karolem hrabią Drahomirem...

Mr. Laxworthys Adventures

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The man was awaiting the service of his dinner in the magnificent buffet of the Gare de Lyon. He sat at a table laid for three, on the right-hand side of the entrance and close to the window. From below came the turmoil of the trains. In appearance he was of somewhat less than medium height, of unathletic, almost frail, physique. His head was thrust a little forward, as though he were afflicted with a chronic stoop. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles with the air of one who has taken to them too late in life to have escaped the constant habit of peering, which had given to his neck an almost storklike appearance.

Jungle Jest. A Tale of India

Talbot Mundy

And then a dark figure came out of the shadow between two tents. This other man was probably a policeman, Patan, and by contrast between these two people, even in the dark, one could even say that one of them was white. The white man ducked, escaped from capture and retreated to his tent. The color was born and danced through millions of prisms, the wind intensified, and the camp slowly woke up.

Sam Steeles Adventures in Panama

L. Frank Baum

Sam Steele is now captain of a ship an old and battered craft, but his own command. He is sailing it around South America to California. A storm forces Sams ship to the Panamanian coast. There, the travelers encounter the Techla Indians, descendants of the Aztecs. The Techlas are hostile to outsiders; Sam and his crew are tempted by the Indians abundant gold and gems. Traveling ashore in Moits amphibious auto, the Americans attempt to manipulate the Techla, without success. Sam Steeles Adventures in Panama is a boys adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, and published in 1907 under the pseudonym Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald. The book was a sequel to the first Sam Steele novel, Sam Steeles Adventures on Land and Sea. The book was reprinted two years later, in 1908, with the alternative title The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska.

Educated Evans

Edgar Wallace

Educated Evans is the first novel in the Evans series. These stories combine Wallaces talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. The eponymous principal character is a London racing tipster. Garrulous and delightfully ignorant of most of the subjects about which he professes to have knowledge, Evans provides the comic foil for the towering figure of The Miller, a formidable police detective named for his perpetual habit of chewing upon a length of straw. Together the pair form an uneasy partnership as they undertake various adventures in the worlds of racing and petty criminality.