Putting Crime Over

Hulbert Footner

A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1899. The novel features the story of a happily married couple which is threatened by a previous lover of the husband. Also, the novel tells the adventures of a young couple, starting from their wedding preparation and ending with the birth of their first child. They are funny and cute, love each other, passionate and want always to be together. They make rules for family life, travel, keep the house and just live. The novel, set in Conan Doyles own time, written partly in the epistolary form he sought to revive after a century of disuse and which was also related to the self-conscious textuality of the late-Victorian urban Gothic.

Magic for Marigold

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery is perhaps best known as the author of the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne, an 11 year old girl, the hero of a girls novel has become a worldwide bestseller, from Canada to Japan, for children to adults. In this story the author beautifully weaves four short stories together into an amazing plot. None of the eccentric Lesleys can agree on what to call Lorraines baby. Lorraine secretly likes the name Marigold... but who among the assorted aunts, uncles, grandmothers, and cousins would ever agree to such a fanciful and outlandish name as that? But when the baby becomes ill and is saved by a kindly doctor, the family wants to name her after him. And his name is... Marigold! A child with such an unusual name is destined for adventure. It all begins the day Marigold meets a girl in a beautiful green dress who claims to be a real-life princess...

The Blue Daffodil

Fred M. White

The story begins in the London home of John Garnstone, an elderly bachelor and antiques dealer. Garnstone is an enthusiastic gardener and grows a plant of incalculable value, a blue daffodil, on the roof of his house. One of the nights his body is a secretary. A lot of weird events happen after that.

Paziowie króla Zygmunta

Antonina Domańska

Powieść historyczna dla dzieci i młodzieży autorstwa Antoniny Domańskiej, której akcja toczy się za czasów panowania króla Zygmunta Starego. Bohaterami opowieści są rezolutni królewscy paziowie. Większość swego wolnego czasu spędzają na płataniu figli dworzanom. Psoty uchodzą jednak zazwyczaj chłopcom płazem. Tłem dla ich licznych przygód są problemy rodziny królewskiej i państwa polskiego wynikające z małżeństwa władcy ze słynną Boną Sforzą.

Przeklęte szczęście

Bolesław Prus

Humoreska Przeklęte szczęście została napisana przez Bolesława Prusa podczas jego współpracy z satyrycznymi pismami Mucha oraz Kolce. Bolesław Prus - polski powieściopisarz, nowelista i publicysta okresu pozytywizmu. Jest autorem siedmiu powieści oraz kilkunastu nowel i opowiadań. Jego twórczość prozatorska należy do największych osiągnięć literatury polskiej. Popularność przyniosły mu powieści realistyczne Placówka, Lalka i Emancypantki oraz powieść historyczna rozgrywająca się w starożytnym Egipcie Faraon.

Silvertips Trap

Max Brand

At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. For Bill Naylor, there are all the others in the world, when it comes to being an outlaw, and there is Barry Christian. For Bill, Christian is the best, and the two wind up together, so Bill is all too ready to do the toughest thing that Christian has to throw his way. It involves killing Silvertip. It is Naylors chance to prove himself, and he know Christians plan cant fail. Something that Christians plan did not take into account will determine Naylors fate. "Silvertips Trap" by Max Brand is the seventh novel in the Silver Tip series that came out in 1943.

Victor, de la Brigade mondaine

Maurice Leblanc

On affirmait ces jours-ci que le fameux cambrioleur Arsene Lupin, qui, apres quelques années de silence, fait beaucoup parler de lui actuellement, aurait été vu mercredi dernier dans une ville de lEst. Des insprcteurs ont été envoyés de Paris. Une fois de plus, il aurait échappé letreinte de la police. Victor, de la Brigade mondaine, considere Lupin comme lennemi personnel. Est-ce que le qentleman-cabrioleur peut affronter lattaque?

Chip and the Cactus Man

Max Brand

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable short novel Chip And The Cactus Man . Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Faust wrote more than 500 novels and over 400 short stories & novellas using twenty pseudonyms. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!

The Treasures of Tartary

Robert E. Howard

An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howards fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best works, in my opinion, as it somehow lacks substance. It seemed all hell and no notion.

The Intriguers

Harold Bindloss

Churches, banks, offices and accommodations curiously combining the old and the newest pink tiers on a par with the magnificent red Frontenac Hotel. It would seem such a simple city. However, it was something unusual mystical. The people who lived here enjoyed life at first until something went wrong. The story is full of mysteries, and the answers to which lie at the very end.

Na marne

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Na marne to debiut beletrystyczny Henryka Sienkiewicza z 1872 r. Powieść osnuta jest na tle życia młodzieży uniwersyteckiej w Kijowie. Główny bohater, Józef Szwarc, studiuje medycynę. Sienkiewicz realistycznie opisuje życie studenckie. Przy okazji powieść krytykuje na pozytywistyczną modłę powierzchowny romantyzm młodzieży polskiej i pokazuje wyższość pracy organicznej nad patriotycznymi mrzonkami.

Peter Ruff and the Double Four

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is a connected collection of short stories about the leader of a secret society pledged to protect England and their German adversary. In The Double Four, Peter is called out of retirement by that organization, which, since his departure, has morphed into a sort of private diplomatic secret service. Peter acquires a title, some nice clothes, and a new archenemy, a German spy, Bernadine. Light hearted with a bit of romance along with the action and fancy pants English dialogue. This novel is an Oppenheim classic from 1919 about a high society villain: characteristic of Oppenheims typical works, with the characters living in luxury, and a very flowing and exact story.

Przestrogi dla Polski. Z teraźniejszych politycznych Europy związków i z praw natury wypadające

Stanisław Staszic

Przestrogi dla Polski zostały wydane po raz pierwszy anonimowo z datą 4 stycznia 1790 r. W publikacji tej rozwija Staszic swoje poglądy, które zawarł w Uwagach nad życiem Jana Zamoyskiego. Na plan pierwszy wysuwają się dwie sprawy ustrój Rzeczypospolitej szlacheckiej oraz koncepcja narodu. Zasady ustroju zostały oparte na oświeceniowym prawie człowieka, które miało gwarantować równość wolność i własność wszystkim członkom społeczeństwa. Podstawą do udoskonalenia ustroju w Polsce, mającej kształt monarchii konstytucyjnej, ma być nowa koncepcja narodu. Zamiast wyłącznictwa magnacko-szlacheckiego, typowego dla feudalizmu, postuluje autor system oparty na hegemonii szlachecko-mieszczańskiej.

Seven Faces. A Mystery

Max Brand

Rival police detectives Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke find themselves working together to locate the millionaire who disappeared while under their protection on a train bound for Chicago. Manhattan millionaire John Cobb has been receiving threatening letters, and so leaves for Chicago, hoping that by hopping the night-train hell escape from his anonymous ill-wisher. Assigned as guards, Campbell and ORourke go along. When, after signing his $15 million will over to his cousin, Cobb disappears from his Pullman, Campbell and ORourke must check the train for their missing charge. Hes not on the train, though, and not in Buffalo, so they scour Chicago - and, as it happens, mean old Cobb has enemies galore from some slick deals hes pulled.

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.

The Desert Pilot

Max Brand

Seattle-born author who worked as a cowhand in California, attended Berkeley, joined then deserted the Canadian Army, and finally settled down to writing full-time. He was incredibly prolific and wrote numerous books under his birth name (Frederick Faust) and a variety of pseudonyms. Today he is best known for his work published as Max Brand, including the classic Western "Destry Rides Again" and his popular series Dr. Kildare. In "The Desert Pilot", Reverend Reginald Ingram arrives in the town of Billman hoping to defeat the lawless. Then Ingram realizes he must make a choice between his peaceful ways and survival. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.