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- This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes’ most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyle’s characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.
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- Newton Moore, the perfect detective, as Sherlock Holmes, and perhaps better. Moore talks about Russian adventures, German spy masters, killer Indian powerful, Balkan intrigues, rifles. Events occur before the outbreak of the First World War. This is another creation of Fred M. White, where espionage is an integral part.
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- Tom White to upadły gwiazdor estrady włoskiego pochodzenia. Po obiecujących początkach kariery stoczył się, wyjechał do Nowego Jorku i zarabia tu na życie, grając w podrzędnym klubie Better Night. Podczas jednego z jego występów dochodzi do niespodziewanej strzelaniny, w której ginie starszy mężczyzna. Tom przypadkiem usłyszał rozmowę, z której wynika, że za masakrę jest odpowiedzialna amerykańska...
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- The Fort Edward Hotel, better known as the Maroney’s Hotel, looked in the middle of the streets like a packing box among soap dishes. Other habitats stretched out on both sides of the wrong double row. At eleven in the morning there were few humans in sight, because the black? ies were in murderous fettle, and anyway, the principal industry of the place was waiting for the railway. Strange things happen...
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- More adventures of Edgar Wallace’s most popular characters, Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, & Merrell better known to the underworld as the dreaded Three Just Men – dedicated to punishing those whom the law cannot touch, in England, Europe, and America. „Again the Three” consists of 13 short stories: „The Rebus”, „The Happy Travellers”, „The Abductor”, „The Third Coincidence”, „The Slane Mystery”, „The...
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- Thrilling detective novel taking place in the Engadine Express from Calais to Lucerne. It is a well-planned, logical detective story of the better sort, free from cheap sensationalism and improbability, developing surely and steadily by means of exciting situations to an unforeseen and satisfactory ending. A mysterious woman, followed by two detectives, shows up at the last minute to book a compartment...
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- Lady Wilhemina Thorpe-Hatton lives a life of extraordinary wealth and privilege. She is visiting her extensive estate in England, which includes the town of Thorpe, and all it’s inhabitants. When Victor Macheson, a young man chock full of ideals and theories about how to make the world a better place, petitions her for the use of a barn where he can speak on these subjects, she refuses. He is dismissed...
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- Uncommon Oppenheim novel tells a strong story of the complicated love affairs, thrilling and mystifying revelations in the life of a young occult. Mr. Henry Rochester is an honest and honorable landowner in rural England. One evening he is walking his estate when he happens across the boy who is meditating on a hillside, and after a conversation, takes it into his head to give the boy money and see...
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- „The Exploits of Pudgy Pete” story was written in 1927 by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Peter Bragg and his tormentor from school days George Angus, join forces to run a modern „Enguiry Agency” in London. The cases which come to them are complex, romantic, dangerous, humorous, and clever. Together the two solve social and criminal problems, and find their romantic mates. These short story collection by Mr....
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- „It is imperative that active steps must be taken to preserve England’s supremacy, and at the same time frustrate this aggressive policy towards us which is undoubtedly growing. I need not tell you that the outlook is far from reassuring. As a diplomatist you know that as well as I do. The war-cloud which rose over Europe at the end of the last Administration is still darkening. It therefore behoves...
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- This is a typical Walla? e sensational story, and no one needs a better recommendation that. Lady Mary Danton and her infant daughter disappeared when Jim Steele, Mr. Salter’s legal assistant, was five. Almost 20 years later, the Danton fortune is about to be distributed to Digby Groat and his mother. But Jim is uneasy. Can he solve the mystery? The mystery surrounding the mark of the blue hand and...
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- Fleeing unfavorable regulation at home, American millionaire King Kerry and other American „robber barons” begin buying up London real estate and important London-based businesses, much to the dismay of their competitors and the people of the city. As his empire expands, Kerry is bedeviled by a mysterious enemy troubled by a dark secret from a past romance. Along the way we meet some good, honest people...
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- „The Talleyrand Maxim" belongs to the pen of an outstanding British journalist and writer Joseph Smith Fletcher. Linford Pratt is a suave and clever law clerk looking for a chance to better himself. Opportunity knocks when he gets possession of a rich man’s will that would mean the ruin of the present heirs. His thoughts turn to blackmail, since he assumes the wrongful heirs would pay a high price...
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- In the dark days just before the outbreak of WW1, Philip Clavering, a British Secret Service agent, is despatched to Europe to recover a gold box carried by a now dead agent, the box holding a deep secret. But the Kaiser’s man, Dr. Grundt, alias Clubfoot, is also on the trail of that box and its secrets. The chase is on! „The Mystery of the Gold Box” is the fourth in the seven book series about the...
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- Delightful collection of mysteries of the first blind detective. In 1914, Ernest Bramah published his first collection of Carrados stories, „Max Carrados”. Max Carrados is a detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. He is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes...
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Niewyobrażalne okrucieństwo. Morderczy szał, jakiego nie widział nawet Hunter. Śledztwo, które doprowadzi go do krawędzi. Czy Robert Hunter w końcu trafił na przeciwnika równego sobie? – Czy wierzy pan w diabła, detektywie Hunter? – zapytał Barnes, przekazawszy Hunterowi adres miejsca zbrodni. – Słucham? – Zaciętość na twarzy Huntera ustąpiła miejsca zdumieniu. – Zapytałem, bo jeśli pan nie...Data dostępności:
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