Królowa Margot

Aleksander Dumas ojciec

Emocjonująca powieść płaszcza i szpady, osnuta na tle autentycznych wydarzeń z historii XVI-wiecznej Francji. Przedstawia sławną rzeź hugenotów w noc św. Bartłomieja oraz okoliczności wymarcia dynastii Walezjuszy i wstąpienia na tron dynastii Burbonów. Zbliża się dzień zaślubin królewny francuskiej Małgorzaty z królem hugenockiej Nawarry, Henrykiem. Stara królowa Katarzyna, zagorzała katoliczka, zezwoliła na ślub z powodów politycznych, ale wcale nie zamierza dotrzymać umowy. Wraz z synem Karolem IX, królem Francji, i jego braćmi planuje krwawą łaźnię dla wszystkich hugenockich gości weselnych. Pragnie zmusić króla Nawarry do przejścia na katolicyzm, grożąc mu, że podzieli los swoich poddanych. Intrygi dworskie, sympatie i antypatie, spiski i romanse, polityka i uczucia, miłość i nienawiść wszystko to miesza się ze sobą w powieści Królowa Margot Dumasa i wciąga czytelnika w świat XVI-wiecznej Francji.

Arsene Lupin. Based on Play by Maurice Leblanc and Francis De Croisset

Edgar Jepson

This early work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset in 1908, and subsequently novelized by Leblanc and then translated by Edgar Jepson into English and published in 1909. Leblancs creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat witty, charming, brilliant, sly and possibly the greatest thief in the world. In this classic tale, Lupin plans to steal priceless objects of art and jewelry from a collector for his own private collection. His brilliant effrontery in the face of the police dares them to catch him with spectacular results! Theres romance, deception, and always something strange going on with all of the characters, really just an overall great read.

The Prison-Breakers and Other Stories

Edgar Wallace

A collection of short stories from the British Mysteries master Edgar Wallace, directly from the Golden Era of the genre. This includes the following The Prison-Breakers, Findings Are Keepings, The Jewel Box, The Undisclosed Client, Via Madeira, The Complete Criminal, Red Beard, Bulfox Asleep. Have a lot of fun! Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time the king of the modern thriller. Wallaces literary output 175 books, 24 plays, and countless articles and review sketches have undermined his reputation as a fresh and original writer. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible.

Edisons Conquest of Mars

Garrett P. Serviss

Every person is interested to know whether there is life on Mars. Garrett Putman Servissis one of the first writers who touched on this topic. This story contains everything unimaginable: the invasion of people on Mars, ingenious inventions, the first space battle, alien abduction. This should be read to each.

Tiger Eye

B.M. Bower

B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance often with surprise endings. Her gift for creating engaging, human characters is just as evident in Tiger Eye, a book with a much tougher, more serious plot than some of her early works. The main character, nicknamed Tiger Eye because of his one yellow eye, is a young Texan who has left home to escape being drawn into an old feud. Arriving in Montana, he literally wanders into the middle of a vicious range war between a big cattle outfit and a community of small ranchers and farmers, or nesters. He soon finds himself working for the cattle outfit, but without a very clear idea of whats expected from him.

Murder Runs in the Family

Hulbert Footner

Lance McCrea lived in a boarding house. There he met a girl he fell in love with. But their relationship is hampered by a powerful person. Lance tries to find out why this powerful man has some kind of hold over her. When he faces the man down, he finds he has been murdered. Of course, he is not the murderer but is a prime suspect anyway.

The Invaders and Other Stories

Leo Tolstoy

A fantastic collection of stories written by the master Leo Tolstoy himself. The war of Russia with foreign invaders is depicted in the novel as a peoples war, fair. The people defended their national independence, their historical right to decide their own destinies.

Keeper of the Keys

Earl Derr Biggers

In this last written adventure, the plot unfolds with an intriguing scenario. Wealthy and hospitible Dudley Ward gathers together Charlie Chan along with Ellens three later husbands to his large house on Lake Tahoe. After hearing his former wife, Ellen Landini, may have been pregnant when she left him, Dudley Ward is determined to find his son. There are four ex-husbands, including Ward, all of them angry with Landini, who is about to marry a fifth husband, also present, with his sister, at this bizarre gathering. Landini herself arrives on the scene to complete the madness, and is promptly murdered. Her servants, entourage and husbands all come under suspicion. Keeper of the Keys was the final book written by Earl Derr Biggers before his passing a year later.