Carolyn Wells
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The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady – ebook
Carolyn Wells
„The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady” book is the author’s description of a fantasy land inhabited by lovers. It is a travel guide to the mythic land of Arcardy which, according to the map on page 35, is just over the Delectable Mountains from the Land of Hearts Desire and is bordered by the State of Matrimony and the Sea of Dreams. Arcady is transversed by the Road To Wealth and the River Lethe,...Data dostępności:
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The Man Who Fell Through the Earth – ebook
Carolyn Wells
„The Man Who Fell Through the Earth” is a traditional mystery novel by American author Carolyn Wells, set in 1920-s in New York. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to investigate. He finds no sign of either victim or assailant...Data dostępności:
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The Mark of Cain – ebook
Carolyn Wells
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, renowned mystery writer Carolyn Wells strays from the enclaves of the well-to-do that usually serve as the settings for her novels and introduces elements of gritty street life. When the body of Rowland Trowbridge, a successful businessman, is found in a remote corner of Van Cortlandt Park, it initially appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. The dead man’s last words...Data dostępności:
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The Vanishing of Betty Varian – ebook
Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, „The Vanishing of Betty Varian”, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense! The book was first published in 1922. In this classic locked room mystery, the Varian family have rented a house for the summer – a house built on the edge of a cliff, three sides faced by water and the entrance the only way in....Data dostępności:
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Patty’s Motor Car – ebook
Carolyn Wells
Patty enters a contest and wins an electric car, which she names „The Swift Camilla”. Then she and her family decide to buy a summer home on the beach. All of Patty’s friends come up for a visit. Patty turns 19 in this book. She’s still not socially considered an adult, but her relationships are starting to get slightly more complicated. First appearance of Mona Galbraith. „Patty’s Motor Car” is the...Data dostępności:
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Face Cards – ebook
Carolyn Wells
A house party at a country house in Connecticut, reputedly a house under a curse. The owner dies mysteriously, and one of the house party vanishes. The characters of the wealthy murdered man, his young wife and his daughter, as well as those of the servants and detectives are more than usually convincing and the story altogether adapted for effortless fireside reading. While the reader is prevented...Data dostępności:
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The Curved Blades – ebook
Carolyn Wells
If you like Agatha Christie, or Henry James, or simply search for an author whose writing and characters you’ll enjoy, look no farther than Wells’ Fleming Stone Mysteries. In this one, wealthy but ornery heiress Lucy Carrington is found dead in her home following a spat with her niece, one of the two heirs to her fortune. With police baffled, master criminologist Fleming Stone is called in. But in...Data dostępności:
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Patty in the City – ebook
Carolyn Wells
Patty and her dad decide to spend part of the year in New York City. She moves to New York and enrolls in the Oliphant School. Then she starts to make friends, as she always does, and she even starts a club called the Grig. First appearance of the Farringtons. „Patty in the City „ (1905) is the third book of the Patty Fairfield collection, a total of 17 novels covering the life of this happy and cheerful...Data dostępności:
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The Bronze Hand – ebook
Carolyn Wells
The steamship Pinnacle leaves New York on its way to Liverpool. Suspicions are raised and cast when a first class passenger, a shrewd oil man, is murdered, his head battered in by blows of the sinister bronze hand, modeled from Rodin’s original, which the victim had prized as his mascot. The apparent motive is theft of jewelry for his new wife, whom no one can track down, not even knowing if the marriage...Data dostępności:
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Betty’s Happy Year – ebook
Carolyn Wells
”What a gorgeous day for a sleigh-ride! Did you ever see such sunny, twinkling snow, and such crisp, crackly air? It fairly snaps off as you breathe it! „ Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was smiling down at her, and her pony, Dixie, was jingling his bells and pawing at the snow and ice in the driveway below. It was the first trial of the pretty...Data dostępności:
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