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The Almost Perfect Murder. A Case Book of Madame Storey
Hulbert Footner
Beyond the City explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew. Destiny brings these three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside rank pirate is linked somehow to one of the neighbors. Who could it be? In this work, Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This is a very early novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim from 1897. The wealthy and bored Lord Hildyard, Marquis of Esholt, is on a yachting tour with a group of friends, including his kept lover, Pauline Owston. When Hildyard spies an apparently uninhabited island, he slips off the ship in search of adventure. In the middle of the night, he hears wonderful violin music and finds a young and beautiful girl, Bertha, playing in the forest. She is accompanied by a cruel and misshapen dwarf. Enchanted, Hildyard stays on the island, where he finds an old college chum, Stanley Owston, the estranged husband of the actress, who is the guardian of the girl, and the owner of the island. The adventures are continuing...
E. Phillips Oppenheim
E. Phillips Oppenheim wrote most famously of secret agents and duplicitous diplomats, secret treaties and international conspiracies, moonlit Riviera casinos, Swiss hotel suites, perilous yacht trips, and glamorous trans-European express trains. Known in his time as the Prince of Storytellers, Oppenheim, like the brand names of todays best seller lists, offered readers in the first half of the 20th century a steady, predictable, and entertaining supply of pop fiction. The Amazing Partnership is one of E. Phillips Oppenheims most intriguing stories. This story deals with a young man and a young woman who make an informal partnership in criminal investigation.
Henry James
The novel comes from what is called Jamess late period. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little plot here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is a morally upright, middle-aged American who feels that life has passed him by. He wants to do the right thing, but finds himself somewhat out of his depth when he visits Paris which Walter Benjamin called the capital of the nineteenth century. In general, The Ambassadors describes a visit to Europe in the early 20th century by Americans to find and retrieve a wayward family member, and the complex cross-cultural interactions between the Americans and the Europeans.
Henry James
The story of a glorious American who, through hard work, made a fortune and went to learn how to relax and laze in the open spaces of the Old World. In particular, he came to Paris, and this city, as is known, is a rather romantic place, according to the public. And, ironically, the practical Newman in this city was smitten by a certain widowed Madame de Center.
Mark Twain
Incredible adventures await the young English Earl of Rosmore in the vastness of the distant United States. In search of the American dream, he finds his distant relative, the ingenious inventor, entrepreneur and ventriloquist Colonel Melberry Sellers, whose main project was the purchase of Siberia to establish a republic in it. An ambitious young count will face insurmountable difficulties on his way to the goal.
The American Roommate Experiment
Elena Armas
Autorka bestsellerowego The Spanish Love Deception powraca z historią, która sprawi, że twoje serce zabije szybciej! Czasem miłość potrzebuje jedynie odrobiny inspiracji! Rosie Graham ma problem. A właściwie kilka. Rzuciła dobrze płatną pracę dla kariery pisarskiej. Tyle że właściwie nie pisze, a deadline oddania wydawcy tekstu zbliża się nieubłaganie. Na domiar złego sufit jej nowojorskiego mieszkania dosłownie wali jej się na głowę. Zdesperowana szuka tymczasowego schronienia u swojej przyjaciółki. Jak się okazuje, nie ona jedna. Na miejscu zastaje kuzyna Cataliny Lucasa Martína, którego od miesięcy stalkuje na Instagramie. Rosie zgadza się dzielić mieszkanie z Lucasem. Szybko odkrywa, że nie tylko paraduje on po domu w samym ręczniku ma także zniewalający uśmiech, niesamowicie pociągający akcent i świetnie gotuje. Kiedy Lucas dowiaduje się o zastoju pisarskim Rosie, proponuje jej eksperyment: zabierze ją na kilka randek, by odnalazła inspirację. Rosie uznaje, że nie ma nic do stracenia, i zaczyna spotykać się z Lucasem. Wszystko okazuje się jednak dużo bardziej skomplikowane, gdy randki stają się o wiele lepszą zabawą, niż Rosie przypuszczała Elena Armas to niekwestionowana królowa uroczych, zabawnych i... gorących romansów slow-burn. Ali Hazelwood, autorka powieści The Love Hypothesis
Anna Katharine Green
On the night of his wedding, Sinclair flosses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison and he feels sure it can only be one of two people, his intended wife, or her cousin, Dorothy. He goes to his friend Mr. Worthington and together they fight against time to find who has the poison and stop them using it. Too late, whoever took it has used it and now there is death in the house, is it suicide or murder? The Amethyst Box written by one of the greatest mystery writers of all time Anna Katharine Green and originally published in 1905. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and she is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective.