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John Buchan
London, May 1914. Europe is close to the First World War. Richard Hannay, a Scotsman raised in Rhodesia is living in London, and finds American Franklin Scudder at his door. Scudder is a photographer and free-lance spy and has information about a plot by the German spy ring, the Black Stone, to steal the British plans for war. Hannay later finds Scudder dead in his flat and decides he must carry on Scudders work. With both German spies and the police after, Hannay must solve the riddle of the thirty-nine steps alone.
The Thirty-Nine Steps - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Buchan, John
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
The Thirty-Nine Steps Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Buchan, John
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
The Thomas Family #1. Spętani przeznaczeniem
Zuzanna Dominik
Miała spędzić na ranczu kilka dni. Została o wiele dłużej Toksyczni szefowie mogą naprawdę uprzykrzyć życie ― wtrącają się we wszystko, kwestionują decyzje, stawiają dużo wymagań, za to rzadko udzielają pochwał. Dokładnie tacy są przełożeni Brooklyn, trzydziestodwuletniej specjalistki od nieruchomości. A że szefowie Brooklyn są przy okazji jej rodzicami, więc swoją kontrolę rozciągają także na pozazawodowe życie młodej kobiety. W każdym razie próbują. Wysyłają ją na odludzie, by skłoniła właściciela rancza do jego sprzedaży. W sumie ― dlaczego nie? Brook przyda się kilka dni odpoczynku od wielkomiejskiego zgiełku, a jakiś stary, niedołężny ranczer chyba nie sprawi wielu kłopotów... Tyle że Archer Thomas nie jest niedołężnym staruszkiem. Przeciwnie ― to młody, przystojny mężczyzna. "Kilka dni" trochę się więc przeciągnie, tym bardziej że Brook poczuje się w Barrington Hills dziwnie dobrze ― po raz pierwszy z dala od presji wywieranej przez rodziców, od pędu i stresu związanego z pracą w dużej firmie. Jest tylko jeden problem: atrakcyjny pan Thomas nie zna prawdziwych przyczyn, dla których kobieta pojawiła się na jego ranczu. A jest na świecie jedna rzecz, której Archer nie wybacza. Kłamstwa...
George Owen Baxter
No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brands talent more evident than in this classic short novel. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In The three crosses, a practical joke gets out of hand and turns an earnest cowboy into a hard-riding yahoo. The Three Crosses, an ominous prediction leads a cowpuncher to a showdown with a notorious gunfighter. Experience the West as only Max Brand could write it!
Maurice Leblanc
In The Three Eyes, author Maurice Leblanc veers away from the Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries that were long his stock-in-trade and mixes things up by introducing some science fiction elements. Maurice Leblanc was a 20th century French writer best known for his short stories. Leblancs first foray into pure science fiction. Scholar Dorgeroux dies before completing his mysterious message whether its a formula or the name of his murderer remains unclear. Added the mystery, a revelation that Dorgeroux has been in televisual contact with impossibly intelligent, three-eyed Venusians.
John Buchan
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as furthering his craze for crime and stopping his activities being investigated, obtain complete mental control over his acolytes. After much deliberation, Hannay accepts the case and so begins the search for the missing three. Much of the story is a series of chases, following various clues, during which Hannay is once again forced to work against the ordinary police to maintain his secrecy. The Three Hostages is a haunting novel, given added poignancy by the subsequent history of the twentieth century.
Edgar Wallace
If you like a villain to be a proper villain then Oberzhon is the genuine article. What a villain! What an adventure! There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. When conventional justice fails The Three Just Men employ their great intellect and cunning. They use their own methods, carry out their own verdicts which the police were unable or unwilling to carry out. There can be no compromise. Each of the ten chapters in this book recounts a separate episode in the careers of two of the trio who call themselves the Three Just Men. The third member of the trio remains in the background. The mission that the Three Just Men have undertaken is to mete out punishment to evil-doers whom the law has failed to reach.