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Maurice Leblanc
Une atmosphere intrigante de lhistoire, qui se déroule pendant le plus mystique temps de la nuit. Gérard le héros tres habile, charmant et aventurier, Baratof le rival russe, qui est tres riche, la concurrence pour la jeune femme, belle et séduisante... Est-ce que une jeune fille peut perdre son honneur et sa respectabilité? Quest-ce que Maurice Leblanc nous offre dans ce roman?
Valentine Williams
There is a secret surrounding the abandoned local manuar and the death of the local miller. When a lawyer on vacation is found slaughtered, the law enters into force. One area of interest for the British reader is the different legal system and methodology used by Sergeant Biguri, who is conducting an official investigation. His personality perfectly complements and contrasts with the personality of Tredgold. The love interest between Dr. Wood and Adrienne de Saint-Remy is well maintained, and the villagers, including the mayor, priest and notary, come alive.
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of countryside very late in the evening, to run a strange errand for a mysterious lodger at his mothers house. He finds a recently murdered body at the end of his ride, and the mysteries keep piling up from there.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Dead Souls is a unique novel that has become a unique standard of ironic prose for Russian literature. The story of the ingenious businessman Chichikov, buying up the dead souls of serfs in a remote province, still impresses with its modernity and subtle humor.
Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded. or Red Rover at Powder Pocket
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or dime novels, published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler. His stories are well plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. Deadwood Dick was an orphan who was adopted, mistreated and then ran away from home to become a notorious outlaw. Originally from New England, he moved to the town of Deadwood, where he became the leader of a gang of highway men, wanted dead or alive for a $500 bounty. He is handsome, valiant, charming and sarcastic and sees himself as a defender of the weak. Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded or Red Rover at Powder Pocket is a fast-paced thriller. With its colorful narrative and surprising twists, the story will keep you hooked till the very end.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road. or The Black Rider of the Black Hills
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or The Black Rider of the Black Hills is a fun shoot-em-up-cowboy book, rather than a serious western but the entertainment value is just as high. They called him Deadwood Dick, the Prince of The Road, the Black Rider of the Black Hills of Dakota. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. It is the story of gold-seekers, settlers and criminals who all come together in a small area of the Black Hills. Theres Fearless Frank, a young man who saves Alice Terry, a damsel in distress, from Sitting Bull and his warriors. There is also The General, Geoffrey Walsingham Nix, an old man with a vision of gold. And naturally, there is young Deadwood Dick, first spotted gunning down a man offering a reward for his arrest.
Deadwood Dicks Doom. or Calamity Janes Last Adventure
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Deadwood Dicks Doom or Calamity Janes Last Adventure is a fast-paced thriller by popular dime-novelist Edward Lytton Wheeler who wrote 33 Deadwood Dick novels between 1878 and 1885. His stories are well plotted adventures and his slang and dialect heavy narration is funny as hell. He wrote a lot of tales with female protagonists, maybe influenced by the New Woman of the 1890s. Deadwood Dick is a fictional character. He was as famous for a time as Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. There was a 500 dollar reward out for him, dead or alive. With its colorful narrative and surprising twists, the story will keep you hooked till the very end. Brimming with suspense and action, it is a must-read!
R. Austin Freeman
John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillums body is found, the inquest duly returns a verdict of suicide and blackmail is suspected of being a contributory factor. However Gillums cousin is so convinced that he would never have killed himself, he engages Thorndyke to try to find the blackmailers and bring all the issues to light. The problem is, no one knows who the blackmailers are or even what the man was being blackmailed for.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
The novel tells about the life of a French missionary in the southwestern United States. In the center of the novel are two Frenchmen, Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Veillant, who left Europe and devoted their entire adult lives to creating a new Catholic parish in Santa Fe after the Mexican War.
Hulbert Footner
Many guys wanted the playwright, Gavin Dordress, to die. Especially on the night of his party. Gail Garrett and Bea Townley openly quarreled for the main role in the play. The next morning Gavin Dordress was found shot to death, a chessman imprinted on his forehead, and nearby a letter of farewell that sounded suspiciously like one of his stage characters speaking. Then a new and amazing hint hastened the seemingly hopeless hunt.
Christopher St. John Sprigg
When George Furnace, instructor of the Baston Aero Club, is found dead in the wreck of his crashed plane, everyone assumes it was a tragic accident, even though he was a skilled airman. An Australian visitor to the Aero Club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide or even murder? The intrepid Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives, and ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered. Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Dekameron to zbiór stu nowel, kompozycyjnie porównywalnych do Baśni stu i jednej nocy, które opowiadają o kulturze i obyczajach w renesansowych Włoszech. Dekameron oznacza dziesięć dni, podczas których dziesięcioro mieszkańców Florencji opuszcza miasto w obawie przed szerzącą się zarazą. Podczas wędrówki każdy z nich opowiada historię na zadany temat. Historie te były na tyle kontrowersyjne, że powieść trafiła w XVI w. do indeksu ksiąg zakazanych.
Hanna Cygler
Druga część trylogii o życiu uczuciowym Zosi Knyszewskiej. Bohaterka po burzliwej miłości do Marcina postanawia ułożyć sobie życie na nowo. Z powodów m.in. politycznych sytuacja jednak się komplikuje. Nowa rzeczywistość rozczarowuje bohaterów, gdyż nie jest taką, jaką sobie wymarzyli, walcząc o przemiany w Polsce. Witek postanawia zerwać z polityką i skoncentrować się na dziennikarstwie. Nowe zajęcie pochłania go bez reszty. Czy Zosia poradzi sobie z rywalką, którą jest praca Witka? I czy to jedyna rywalka?
Stefan Grabiński
Demon ruchu to zbiór najlepszych trzynastu kolejowych nowel i opowiadań Stefana Grabińskiego, mistrza grozy, nazywanego polskim Edgarem Allanem Poe i H.P. Lovecraftem. Autor stworzył specyficzny rodzaj horroru, w którym grozę sieją opętane wagony, opuszczone stacje kolejowe, błędne pociągi, a katastrofy kolejowe zbierają swoje krwawe żniwo. Utwory Grabińskiego są nacechowane z jednej strony typową dla dwudziestolecia międzywojennego gloryfikacją techniki i nowoczesności, z drugiej zaś tchną grozą rzadko spotykaną i u współczesnych pisarzy. Autor wykorzystuje klasyczne schematy opętania, złych omenów, nawiedzeń czy wreszcie demonów i duchów, wrzuca je do nowej rzeczywistości i uzyskuje efekt znakomity i unikatowy.
Demon wyścigów. Powieść sensacyjna
Stanisław Antoni Wotowski
Powieść sensacyjna Demon wyścigów przenosi nas do zamkniętego światka wyścigów konnych przedwojennej Warszawy. Właściciele koni, dżokeje, bukmacherzy i miłośnicy gonitw spotykają się co tydzień na torze wyścigowym na Polu Mokotowskim. Dżokej Grot jeździ w barwach stajni hrabiego Huberta Świtomirskiego. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje od tajemniczego Demona wyścigów propozycję przegrania jednej z gonitw. Ma za to otrzymać okrągłą sumkę. Dżokej jest człowiekiem wyjątkowo uczciwym, dlatego kategorycznie odmawia. Jak co tydzień rusza do walki na grzbiecie swojego ulubieńca faworyta wyścigów Magnusa. Nie spodziewa się, że tajemniczy demon nie pogodził się z odmową i użył sprytnego sposobu, by dżokej i jego ogier przegrali wyścig. Rozpoczyna się długi pojedynek z przeciwnikiem, który nie cofnie się przed niczym, by zrealizować swoje plany...