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Zygmunt Kaczkowski
Powieść Zygmunta Kaczkowskiego Murdelio z 1853 roku należy do cyklu Ostatni z Nieczujów. Jej akcja rozgrywa się na ziemiach polskich po pierwszym rozbiorze i koncentruje się wokół Ignacego Piotrowicza herbu Murdelio. Był on dziedzicem ogromnej fortuny, jednocześnie jego postać budziła grozę w zabobonnej szlachcie z uwagi na demoniczny i destrukcyjny charakter. Jego historię opowiada główny bohater, a zarazem narrator powieści Marcin Nieczuja. Przez zadziwiający splot okoliczności ich losy nagle się przecinają... Henryka Sienkiewicza do napisania słynnego Latarnika zainspirowało wydarzenie rozgrywające się w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Latarnik, który nie dopełnił obowiązku, tak bezpamiętnie zaczytał się właśnie w Murdelio...
E. Phillips Oppenheim
One of many great works by E. Phillips Oppenheim, who styled himself as the prince of storytellers, and is credited with creating the rogue male genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction from the late 19th and early 20th Century England. The hero in this one is Roger Sloane, a well-off American bon vivant who decides to blow the whistle on a gang of transplanted American gangsters who have abandoned New York and set up a sophisticated crime syndicate on the French Riviera and in Monaco. Robbery, murder, secret hideouts, fast cars, and beautiful women all figure in this tale of roaring 20s. Roger meets a wild and beautiful child of the hills, Jeannine, who reappears as the protege of his Aunt, and the belle of the casino.
J.S. Fletcher
Elderly John Marbury, who came from faraway Australia the day before, was killed in central London. But who could wish death to a man who had not been in England for a long time? Investigation investigator Detective Rasbery turns for help to his friend, crime reporter Frank Spargo. Soon they learn that shortly before the death of Marbury, he met with MP Aylmore.
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.