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- „Whispering Death” (1931) is the third adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means...
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- Originally published in 1926, „Dr. Night” is the first story from the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres. This story is basically rather gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who...
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- „The Green Pearl” (1930) is the second adventure in the „Dr. Night” trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who settled in Australia. This second story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end (gravity powered aircraft without engines...) and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine:...
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- 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.
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- Nowy Jork nigdy nie zasypia. Ale jak obudzić się z koszmaru na jawie? W ciągu kilku tygodni z Central Parku znikają bez śladu cztery kobiety. Bez świadków, bez dowodów, bez motywu. Komisarz Olivier Davis, doświadczony śledczy, zaczyna podejrzewać, że to nie są przypadkowe zaginięcia. Gdy odnalezione zostaje pierwsze ciało, sprawa zmienia się w polowanie na seryjnego mordercę. Miasto ogarnia panika,...
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- An Espionage/Adventure Classic! With „The Return of Clubfoot”, Valentine Williams has penned a thrilling page-turner of mystery, love, adventure, and intrigue. Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for an island in the Pacific. To...
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- ”The Councillors of Falconhoe”, the new serial story, written by Mr. Fred. M. White. The story begins in the London club „Mars and Jupiter”, where several diplomats enjoy a quiet place, and the interest of the reader from the very beginning is maintained in an atmosphere of excitement. Hilary Gelicors, a central figure in the story, after an exciting adventure in the war, is unable to adapt to the...
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- M.P. Shiel is a British writer of West Indian descent. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances, published as serials, novels, and as short stories. „Children of the Wind” adventure set in South Central Africa. A lost race novel. An English scientist learns that the „White Queen” of the Wa-Ngwanyas is his own cousin and heiress to a fortune of which she is being kept in ignorance....
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- A classic mystery novel featuring Hanshew’s best-known creation, the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as „the man of the forty faces” for his incredible skill at disguise. An ex-cracksman turned Scotland Yard detective, Cleek’s slim and faultlessly dressed form is topped by an india-rubber-like face, of which he has remarkable control. Cleek is based in Clarges Street, London, where he is...
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- In „The Riddle of the Mysterious Light”, consulting detective Hamilton Cleek is en route to meet with Scotland Yard detective Narkom when he’s intercepted by a roving gang of nefarious ne’er-do-wells. Can he muster his mighty intellect and physical prowess and hatch a plan to escape his captors? Hamilton Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began to appear in 1910 and were subsequently...
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- Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. This is not one of them. It’s billed as a novel of social intrigue and as a story of revenge without violence and moves quickly. Duke Henry Chatfield with his family, and family lawyer Sir Stephen are riding through central Italy when the car breaks down in Pellini, where, 20 years earlier, the Duke’s brother had a mistress and illegitimate...
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- Written in 1922, this story of world politics in 1934 has everything that goes to the making of an enthralling tale. A theme of present import, an intricate plot full of suspense and surprise, fascinating characters and an unusual love interest. The central figure of this absorbing story is the mysterious and cultured Prince Shan, ruler of China; the heroines are captivating English girl and a exotically...
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- „The Feathered Serpent” is a mystery-thriller novel penned by the remarkably prolific Edgar Wallace. A number of people receive threatening cards emblazoned with the device of a feathered serpent, a device that we later find is associated with ancient Aztec religion and with a cult that still exists in Mexico and Central America. Reporter Peter Dewin suspects the card mysteriously left in the handbag...
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- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel. It is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates...
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- Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a story of selfishness, greed, and hypocrisy. The central character is old Martin Chuzzlewit, whose selfishness and cynicism, combined with his great wealth, cause him to mistrust everyone around him. Also a major character in the story is his relative, Mr. Pecksniff, an accomplished hypocrite, who covers his avarice with a mask of smooth piety and humility....
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- Sekrety nie umierają nigdy Simon Greene żyje na krawędzi obłędu. Od miesięcy szuka swojej córki, Paige. Kiedy wreszcie trafia na jej ślad - namierza ją w Central Parku, gdzie ćpuni grają dla pieniędzy przy pomniku Lennona - na jego drodze staje Aaron, człowiek, przez którego uciekła. A Paige znowu znika. Tym razem jednak Simon nie zamierza odpuścić - za wszelką cenę chce sprowadzić córkę do domu....
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- Molly Murphy debiutuje na deskach nowojorskiego teatru Casino w komedii muzycznej, która ma być wydarzeniem sezonu. Gra pilną uczennicę na pensji dla dziewcząt. Dla Molly to wyjątkowo trudna rola, bo przecież wcale nie jest aktorką. Została wynajęta jako detektyw i na zlecenie gwiazdy wodewili Blanche Lovejoy ma dowiedzieć się, czy za tajemniczymi wydarzeniami w teatrze stoi duch czy człowiek. To nie...
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- The seventh issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. A cypher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale as Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. Central to the novel lies the story of a terrorist brotherhood and the hold it acquires over...
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- Kiedy łódź z Blake`em Johnsonem, weteranem wojny w Wietnamie, a obecnie osobistym doradcą prezydenta do spraw bezpieczeństwa, cumuje przy pomoście na Long Island, z ciemności wyłania się napastnik i strzela do niego. W tym samym czasie w Londynie generał Charles Ferguson, ekspert do spraw terroryzmu, właśnie zbliża się do swojego samochodu zaparkowanego w bocznej uliczce, kiedy limuzyna eksploduje....
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- Central Europe, Beskidy Highlands, Present Day When Tom Dubiel, a teenage boy, vanishes in the highland woods around Szczyrk, inspector Alex Dunaj has no idea what forces he is about to go up against. An ancient cave complex beneath Klimczok Peak conceals buried secrets which should never come to light. Meet Magda Flis, a womans whose supernatural gifts will alter the course of local and cosmic histories....
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