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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...
Max Brand
Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. Never before published in book form, this 1937 police procedural by veteran Brand introduces New York police detectives Campbell and ORourke. The pair investigate the apparent suicide of a philanthropist David Barry who was about to be accused of bribery and corruption prior to his death. Angus Campbell and Patrick ORourke can get the cuffs on the killer, therell be endless face-offs in which the five suspects hurl accusations at each other and reveal how many of them were popping in and out of the crowded murder scene on the fatal night.
J.S. Fletcher
Stephen Maxtondale summoned two detectives to investigate the disappearance of the man who claimed to be his lost older brother. The victim appears in the family of Stephen, 30 years old, but then disappears again. One of the reasons for the robbery is the sacrifice of the victim. Can detectives find the victim?
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.
Murzyn z załogi Narcyza. Opowiadanie o Kasztelu
Joseph Conrad
Załoga Narcyza, statku handlowego płynącego z Bombaju do Londynu, składa się w większości z białych marynarzy. Jedyny czarnoskóry James Wait staje się głównym bohaterem opowiadania bynajmniej nie z uwagi na kolor skóry, ale na szczególną postawę, która przysporzy załodze przygód. Grymaśny James twierdzi bowiem, iż zaciągnął się na statek, aby... umrzeć.
Muszę wypocząć. Obrazek sceniczny
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz to nie tylko autor niezapomnianych powieści i nowel, lecz także twórca sztuk scenicznych. Laureat literackiej Nagrody Nobla był także świetnym dramaturgiem. Sztuka Muszę wypocząć ukazała się w noworocznym numerze Kuriera Codziennego w 1897 r. Zadedykowana została Bolesławowi Prusowi. Autor przedstawia w niej w zwartej i dowcipnej formie dzień sławnego literata, który postanowił w końcu się zrelaksować. Wiąże się to z tym, że przestał na kilka dni pisać, przygotowywać się do odczytów i nie dosypiać po nocach, by wywiązać się z rozmaitych zobowiązań wobec redakcji. Przestał również czytać listy od swych wielbicieli, którzy zwracają się doń z najdziwniejszymi sprawami: Czy pan łatwiej pracujesz po wołowinie, czy po baraninie lub po kotletach wieprzowych? Po jakim mięsie tworzysz pan łatwiej charaktery, a po jakim krajobrazy? .
Honoriusz Balzak
Powieść Muza z zaścianka Honoriusza Balzaka należy do Scen z życia prowincji cyklu Komedia Ludzka. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się w prowincjonalnym Sancerre. Dawny spekulant, Jean de la Baudraye, poślubia ambitną i utalentowaną Dinę Piédefer. Małżeństwo to służy mu do zdobycia prestiżu i wpływów. Piękna i uzdolniona literacko kobieta jest bowiem niekwestionowaną królową tamtejszych salonów. Źle się jednak czuje na konserwatywnej prowincji. Pewnego dnia nawiązuje romans z przebywającym w Sancerre przejazdem paryskim dziennikarzem Stefanem Lousteau. Ten jednak szybko nudzi się tym romansem. Porzucona Dina podejmuje ryzykowną decyzję o samotnej ucieczce do stolicy. Pragnie kontynuować romans ze Stefanem, a zarazem zyskać literacką sławę...
Willa Cather
The story of a boy who grew up in a wealthy farming family, not avoiding hardships and always ready to lend a helping hand. The story of a love that didnt happen, but rather happened, between the main character or Antonia, turns out to be more than growing up, more than just about the history of one country. This is a story about a change of mind.
Fred M. White
Fred M. White wrote a story about a real feminine and beautiful lady. For example, his story begins so: when a tall figure in black velvet and diamonds and lace appeared at the head of the staircase. Mrs. Eldred-Wolfram was tall and dark, and, although she was almost seventy years old, there was no gray hair on her smooth head. Her features were beautiful and arrogant, as befits Mrs. Eldred-Wolfram of Caradoc; her eyes were restless and changeable. She pledged her income to the last penny. My Lady Bountiful, as she was generally called.
Wilkie Collins
The novel My Ladys Money continues the detective line of Collins work: this time it is about investigating the loss of a 500-pound banknote, during the search for which the honest name of poor Isabella, suspected of stealing money, was defamed.
My Life. The Story of a Provincial
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The theme of the little man, which appeared in many of Chekhovs short stories, was also touched on in the novel My Life. The main character, Misail Poloznev, a nobleman by birth, becomes a simple worker. In order to live the way he wants, he breaks with his father. He is opposed to lies and hypocrisy, namely they, in his opinion, reign among the intelligentsia. The quote of the old house painter Radish: Aphids eat grass, rust iron, and lies the soul. According to the protagonist, moral self-improvement of a person is directly related to physical labor, which he would like to make mandatory for everyone.
Mary Fortune
Mary Helena Fortune is one of the first female authors who became famous for detectives. My Lodger is no exception. This work captivated readers with a tense plot, where the reader must think.
Willa Cather
The story is about a rich girl deserting her riches for the love of her life. She is an Irish Catholic and the boy for whom she leaves everything is related to German Protestantism. The life seems to be good. But when at the end of her life as the couple is reduced to abject poverty, she probes few questions relating to her life.
Guy Boothby
A novel about a trio that robs some jewels, one of them escapes with them. This is followed by a whirlwind trip in Europe and Asia in pursuit of blood feud. Writing and plot points (despite the fact that they are more than a hundred years old) dont feel obsolete.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This connected series of stories chronicle the adventures of a young American graduate of Harvard college, M. Edmund Martin and the retired British soldier, Colonel Green on the Cote dAzur in the period just to World War 1. The two meet at a casino, and manage to avoid many of the classic traps which await the idle wealthy of the time. Seemingly inadvertently, they foil crooks, rescue maidens, recover stolen jewels, help young lovers, assist spies against Germany, and foil the plans of German agents attempting to consolidate their power. British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue. Many of his more than 100 novels are still read today.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. Twists and turns galore, enjoyable descriptions about the upper-crust and by-gone days. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and this is one of the best of his many good and exciting books. It was largely the success of his first spy novel, Mysterious Mr. Sabin, that enabled Oppenheim to relinquish control over the family business and devote himself to a full-time writing career.