The Closed Book. Concerning the Secret of the Borgias

William Le Queux

These strange facts would never have been placed on record, nor would this exciting chapter of an eventful life have been written, except for two reasons: first, because the discovery I made has been declared to be of considerable importance to scientists, bibliophiles, and the world at large; and, secondly, because it is my dear wifes wish that in order to clear her in the eyes of both friends and foes nothing should be concealed, misrepresented, or withheld.

Die Bande des Schreckens

Edgar Wallace

Arnold Long war es, der Shelton gejagt hatte. Inspektor Arnold Long stellt dem Gauner Clay Shelton eine Falle. Shelton wird gefangen und zum Tode durch den Strang verurteilt. Bald nach der Vollstreckung scheinen alle für seinen Tod Verantwortlichen von einem Fluch getroffen: Henker, Richter, Ankläger alle sterben unter mysteriösen Umständen. Aber da ist noch Inspektor Long von Scotland Yard. Wird Inspektor Long das nächste Opfer des Fluchs? Kann er der Rache des Toten entgehen?

Z głuszy

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Zbiór opowiadań Marii Rodziewiczówny głęboko osadzonych w krajobrazie Polesia. Pełno tu mitologicznych opisów, ludowych opowieści, bajań i gawęd. Zbiór zawiera utwory: Noc, Ul, Z tamtej strony, Czarna woda, Młyn Archipa, Na starej choinie, Wpisany do heroldii, Zachód, Pro memoria, Piaski, Szwed, Rozdroże, Posłaniec, Zagony i Czajki.

The Green Rust

Edgar Wallace

This is an enjoyable short story by Edgar Wallace, set in England during the 1920s. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill American millionaire, John Millinborn. With him are his best friend, Kitson, and a local doctor, the Dutch van Heerden. He is murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed in the first chapter, having just left his fortune to his niece, Oliva, whom he has never met. Before he dies, he asks Kitson to find and watch over Oliva. But then theres the young detective, a young woman, a fortune, secret laboratories, poison, some gun play, hostages, and the list goes on... The mysteries multiply and deepen as the story proceeds.

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 182932, and widely considered the greatest of Victorian novels. It comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a large cast of characters: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novels rich comic vein. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. It is a fantastic story where the destinies of several locals meet and where from the very first pages we embark in a great adventure!

Der Mann, der alles wußte. Roman

Edgar Wallace

Diese Geschichte von den erstaunlichen Abenteuern, die in das Leben eines pensionierten Diamantenhändler kommen, der aus den Minen von Südafrika nach London kommt, ist clever in Handlung und effektiv im Stil. John Minute hat es weit gebracht. Vom Goldschürfer in Afrika zum Bankier und Multimillionär die Karriere des John Minute ist nicht nur mit guten Taten gepflastert. Doch sein Aufstieg hat auch seine dunklen Seiten. So finster sind seine Geheimnisse, dass Minute Schweigegelder zahlen muss, um sein Leben nicht zu verlieren.

The Phantom Herd

B.M. Bower

In The Phantom Herd from 1916 we follow a film director Luck Lindsay who wants to make an authentic western, therefore using the Happy Family boys and some of their friends as actors instead of professional actors. There are many difficulties along the way, some of which bid fair to be insurmountable and they are up against big problems, mostly the weather and deadline. The story is absolutely thrilling and at the same time Bower, with the help from a real western actor, has made a great research on how you made films in those early silent film days. One of many recommended works by this prolific author.

Transakcja wojny chocimskiej

Wacław Potocki

Epos Wacława Potockiego powstał na bazie dziennika Jakuba Sobieskiego i opiewa doniosłe polskie zwycięstwo nad Turkami odniesione pod Chocimiem w 1621 roku. Autor nadał zapiskom ojca króla Jana III formę wierszowaną i uzupełnił je własnymi komentarzami. Dążył do pokrzepienia polskich serc i gloryfikacji heroicznej przeszłości, ale nie stronił też od krytyki ustroju Rzeczpospolitej magnackiej.

Hard Pressed

Fred M. White

Fielden and May happy married couple. One fine day, Fielden gets an autocatastrophe and disappears. May pretends that nothing has happened and everything is in order. She continues to move on. However, is everything so good? Has Fielden disappeared forever?

The Red Ledger

Frank L. Packard

Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco in which it lists his debts. When he was very poor, Stranways father had given him a dime. Now, fabulously wealthy, he desires to pay back all those who helped him as well as those who did not and he recruits Stranway to continue when he is too old to handle it himself. All those who done him well, will be protected and secured, but those who done him wrong will live to regret it... Frank Packard (1877-1942) authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity.

Aziyadé

Pierre Loti

Aziyade semi-autobiographique, basé sur le journal de Loti, persiste pendant trois mois. En automne et en hiver 1876, un officier de la marine française en Grece et Istanbul parle de lamour illégal de Loti, 27 ans, légard du harem circassien nommé. Dans ce roman, Loti décrit également son amour pour la culture turque, devenue un élément central de son personnage exotique.

The Cheerful Smugglers

Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular authors fun, a bundle of absurd complications and ridiculous situations arising from a young married couples scheme to provide funds for their year-old sons education. They decide to finance their babys college education by collecting a toll on any goods brought into their home by friends or family members. The Cheerful Smugglers is a veritable Stocktonian story, as delightfully absurd in theme as it is realistic in characterization.

Cleopatra. Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis

H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard relies on adventure and exotic concepts. This story unfolds in the era of the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history. The line of the dynasty defended by the priesthood of Isis is trying to survive in difficult circumstances. The main character Harmachis must overthrow Cleopatra, banish the Romans and return to Egypt its former status.

La Jangada

Jules Verne

Le roman Jangada se déroule en Amérique du Sud sur les rivages pittoresques mais dangereux de lAmazone. Le héros, qui a caché de nombreuses années aux autorités brésiliennes sous un nom demprunt, est accusé dun crime grave: le vol de diamants, pour lequel il nétait pas impliqué. Par une fatale concidence, il ne peut pas prouver son innocence. La peine de mort a déj été signée. Seule la solution du message crypté dun véritable criminel peut lui sauver la vie.

Korytarz podziemny B

Aleksander Błażejowski

Akcja kryminału rozgrywa się na przełomie lat 20. i 30.h XX wieku. W tle powieści malownicza Moskwa i rozwijającą się gospodarczo Warszawa. Główny bohater, Stefan Barczyński, zostaje uwikłany w przedziwny splot wydarzeń. Czy poznanie ponętnej Marty było tylko zbiegiem okoliczności? I jaką rolę odegra w życiu Stefana przypadkowo spotkany przyjaciel z dawnych lat?

The Master Revenge

H.A. Cody

It happens that you are a hostage to circumstances. The main character, Nathan, is trying to clear his name from an unfair accusation. After 12 years, holding in prison on a false charge of theft. Can he do it? After all, now everyone looks at him differently.

The Green Eye of Goona

Arthur Morrison

Morrisons most popular books are probably his detective stories, featuring Martin Hewitt, a methodical investigator, who uses his ability to be thoroughly at home among any and every class of people to invite confidences in gathering evidence. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing. Morrison made two other forays into the detective field, the first: The Dorrington Deed-Box, which introduces the quasi-criminal antihero Dorrington, and The Green Eye of Goona, a pastiche of Wilkie Collinss The Moon-Stone. The Green Eye of Goona novel is set in India. Unusual and imaginative in subject matter, meticulously plotted, and smoothly written, this story will captivate mystery lovers.

Na wzgórzu róż

Stefan Grabiński

Zbiór sześciu nowel z gatunku literatury grozy. Pierwsza z nowel jest zarazem utworem tytułowym. Pewnemu człowiekowi zalecono zażywanie kąpieli słonecznych. Żeby spełnić tę prośbę, szuka on ustronnego miejsca. W końcu znajduje odpowiednie miejsce za miastem. Znajduje się tam tajemniczy mur. Nie ma żadnych widocznych wejść ani otworów, jedyne co się wydostaje przez niego, to woń róż. Nasz bohater oddaje się w jego pobliżu zdrowotnym wpływom promieni słonecznych. Jednak przez woń róż coraz silniej przebija się inny, obcy zapach. Żeby rozwikłać jego zagadkę postanawia przedostać się na drugą stronę muru. Co tam ujrzy? Rozwiązanie czy może nową zagadkę? Lektura krótkiego zbioru opowiadań polskiego Lovecrafta jak nazywany bywa Grabiński potwierdza, że mamy do czynienia z pisarzem bardzo utalentowanym, niesłusznie znanym tylko miłośnikom literatury grozy. Historie z tomu Na wzgórzu róż ciągle robią wrażenie mimo upływu lat. Grabiński umiejętnie tworzy niepokojący klimat, sprawnie buduje napięcie, na ogół przekonująco wprowadza w fabułę elementy nadnaturalne. Jego język gęsty i sugestywny, współgrający z klimatem opowiadanych historii.

The Night Horseman

Max Brand

For all his untamed ways, Whistling Dan Barry has won the love of Kate Cumberland, who struggles to lure him from the call of the wind and the night in the desert country. But Dans mysterious personality leads him into one difficult situation after another, for the path he takes with his wild companions - the stallion Satan and the wolf dog Black Bart - is strewn with desperate enemies and fierce encounters. "The Night Horseman" is part of a trilogy about a mysterious gunslinger who appears to be a Casper Milquetoaste but, in concert with a powerful wolf-dog, and a murderous stallion; is able to overpower seemingly any opposing force.

Glinda of Oz

L. Frank Baum

As this last Oz story from L. Frank Baum opens, Dorothy Gale and Ozma have been dispatched by Glinda on a peacekeeping mission. Dorothy and Ozma discover that a war is brewing in a distant and unexplored part of Oz, between two mysterious races, the Flatheads and the Skeezers, both of whom have come under the power of cruel dictators. They have never heard of either of these people but they worry that people might be harmed in a war. The girls set out to try to prevent the fighting, not knowing what dangers await them. This begins a quick but grand adventure for the two friends, which will eventually involve all of her other friends, and quite an assortment of strange but wonderful beings they are; the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion, but also Tik Tok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and so many others. A rousing tale of suspense, magic, and adventure, Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth and final Oz book and its a grand conclusion to Baums chronicles of Americas favorite fairyland.

La Demeure mystérieuse

Maurice Leblanc

Lapparition sur la scene de lOpéra de la séduisante Régine Aubry, dont la robe est recouverte dune précieuse tunique avec les diamants les plus purs, est la chose la plus intéressante du évenement. Des diamants sont volés un mannequin lors dune présentation de mode et ce mannequin est emmené dans une grande maison de maitre Paris. Quelque temps apres, se passe une étrange répétition des évenements. Le baron Jean dEnneris (Arsene Lupin bien sr!) décide denquter sur laffaire passionnante. Il dénoue, comme toujours, les mailles inextricables du filet dans lequel se trouvent les jolies femmes et les autres personnages de cette histoire.

Emma

Jane Austen

Beautiful, clever and... single. Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. Emma is often seen as Jane Austens most flawless work.

The Jacob Street Mystery

R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freemans mysteries are often divided into two parts, the first dealing with events leading up to a murder, followed by Dr. Thorndykes investigation. In this case, the first part, about a beautiful woman who poses as a serious artist, then disappears, is delightful. It details the friendship between Thomas Pedley and Loretta Schiller. The second part is written in the first person with Jervis, Thorndykes assistant, being the narrator as usual. A peaceful, pleasant afternoon in the woodland scene of Linton Green is disturbed when a brutal murder takes place. But thanks to an unseen witness, the killer may be caught, and the witness turns out to be a blessing in disguise. This is the story of Thomas Pedley, a gifted artist who paints what he sees from memory.

Prodigals of Monte Carlo

E. Phillips Oppenheim

He might be almost forgotten now, but Mr. Oppenheim wrote an amazing 116 novels, including many bestsellers. Several are set amid the glamour of Monte Carlo, including this 1920s romantic thriller. The novel has an intriguing start, as handsome and charming Sir Hargrave Wendever gets a nasty shock from the doctor. Wealthy, handsome, intelligent, single, with the world at his feet suddenly he finds his world crumbling. What will he do? He decides to do some good with his money in the time he has left, and offers a penniless young woman a free holiday at his villa, with no strings attached. The reader is transported from the grey fogs of London to the sunshine of Monte Carlo, where, along with the hero and some new friends, the real adventures begin.