Murder in Piccadilly

Charles Kingston

Murder in Picadilly is a typical so-called Golden Age detective story published in 1936 and set in and around Soho. The story concerns the fortunes of a young man named Bobbie Cheldon. Bobbie has fallen head over heels in love with a nightclub dancer Nancy Curzon at The Frozen Fang nightclub but she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbies miserly uncle Massy stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Nancys hopes rest. Worse, Bobbies fallen under the sway of one Nosey Ruslin, Nancys theatrical agent hoping to profit from Bobbies relationship woes and wealthy uncle. And soon, Massys life will end on a crowded platform of the London Underground, the killer pursued by Scotland Yards Inspector Wake...

Hrywda

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Polesie, wieś Hrywda. Rytm życia jej mieszkańców dyktują pory roku, odwieczny obyczaj, wiara i zabobon, splecione w nienaruszalny porządek rzeczy. Kalenik to sierota. Od śmierci rodziców pracuje w gospodarstwie swego wuja, nałogowego alkoholika Sydora. Chłopaka wyróżnia ogromna pracowitość i miłość do ziemi przodków. Bohater pragnie poślubić piękną Łucysię, która usługuje we dworze. Na przeszkodzie staje zarówno opinia sąsiadów, jak i brak środków pozwalających utrzymać siebie i swą wybrankę. Tymczasem pojawia się szansa, by odmienić los. Tylko czy bohater to dostrzeże i w porę wykorzysta? Niezwykła opowieść o codziennym życiu na poleskiej wsi, łącząca realizm z bajkowością.

Stalky i spółka

Rudyard Kipling

Stalky i spółka odwołuje się do szkolnych doświadczeń noblisty Rudyarda Kiplinga i jego pobytu w elitarnej szkole z internatem. Zgrana ekipa przyjaciół psoci i dokazuje, jak na młodzieniaszków przystało, przeżywając zapadające w pamięć przygody. Jednocześnie poddani surowym rygorom szkoły nabierają oni ogłady, która zrobi z nich w przyszłości angielskich gentelmanów.

Red Belts

Hugh Pendexter

The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event for North Carolina. How could she get out of this situation?

The Refugees

Arthur Conan Doyle

A brilliant adventure tale of life in the Court of Louis XIV and of Canada under French rule... and Huguenot persecution The Refugees is set in both 17th Century France and in the wilds of North America. Although Doyle wasnt a Christian, he writes with a great deal of sympathy as he describes the plight of French Protestants in the late 17th century. The year is 1690 and the De Catinat family is facing disaster. Because they are Huguenots, French Protestants, Louis XIV has stripped the family of their wealth, titles and soon, in all likelihood, their lives. They are rescued, however, by an American who is visiting Paris. He arranges for them to escape to the New World, but their troubles are just beginning. Along the way we visit the inner sanctum of King Louis palace, travel through the ice-berg infested waters of the north Atlantic sea, and journey in the wilderness of New France.

The Golden Face. A Great Crook Romance

William Le Queux

Imagine an organized gang of thieves, ruthless, working together like a modern machine, run by one man referred to only as Golden Face."This tale inexorably takes you step-by-step into the organization, as we follow the main characters fall into the underworld of crime.Takes place around the 1900s, but action packed and loaded with intrigue; even room for a budding romance in with all the twists and turns of the story.Really enjoyed this story, looking for more like it.

Robur the Conqueror

Jules Verne

The stolen trinity of American heroes flies around the globe on a screw machine heavier than air: from Philadelphia through Canada and the Far West to Japan, China, India; through Russia, Europe, Africa and the South Pole to the Pacific Ocean. Due to the fact that the ship Albatross moves at breakneck speed, terrestrial landscapes are flashed before the reader in passing. The work has an intrigue that unfolds in a rather interesting way, as well as a very unpredictable ending.

Bull Hunter

Max Brand

Another great Max Brand western, first written in 1921. The story follows a cousin who was taken in by his uncle and his two sons. They make fun of him, and use his size and strength to do the hard chores they cant do. The huge, lumbering outlaw Bull Hunter intends to hunt down and kill the men responsible for his uncles death. When he finds out that the ringleader is already behind bars, he devises a clever plot to spring his nemesis in order to dispense his comeuppance, street justice-style. Enjoyable story that would appeal to those who like to see someone whos been bullied get a chance to rise above self doubt and circumstances.