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- Od kompletnej porażki do spektakularnego sukcesu. Finlay Donovan zainspiruje każdego, kto chciałby odmienić swoje życie. Macierzyństwo to MOR-DĘ-GA. Ale Finlay Donovan jest zabójczo skuteczna… Życie Finn, samotnej matki dwójki dzieci i niespecjalnie poczytnej pisarki, pogrążone jest w chaosie. Książka nie chce się napisać, były mąż zwolnił opiekunkę do dzieci bez uprzedzenia, a dziś...
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- „Wanted! A Detective’s Strange Adventures”, by James Edward Muddock (Dick Donovan), is a collection of 22 short stories. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels, exposing villainous conspiracies and solving dastardly...
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- This collection dates from 1893 and includes 13 short stories written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. Many of Muddock’s mystery stories feature the character Dick Donovan, a Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. The character was so popular that later stories were published under this pen name. Muddock also wrote...
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- „The heart of a man is full of hypocrisy; the heart of Nature is utterly without guile”. Harold Preston discovers this when he goes prospecting for gold in the uncharted bush with a rival he considered a friend. This is a fairly decent tale of jealousy, betrayal and vengeance written by a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction James Edward Preston Muddock also known as...
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- Written by James Edward Preston Murdock (1843–1934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle – and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. This collection of short stories dates from 1896: 1: In the Shadow of Sudden Death, 2: The Doom of the Star-gazer, 3: The Strange Story of Some State Papers, 4: The Problem of Dead Wood...
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- „A Detective’s Triumphs” (1891) by Dick Donovan – eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international...
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- James Edward Preston Muddock also known as „Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock” and „Dick Donovan” (1843-1934) was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of Muddock’s stories featured his continuing character Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street...
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- Before Sherlock Holmes there was Dick Donovan. The name struck terror into the hearts of thieves, murderers, fences, swindlers and criminals of every class, and his exploits gave delight to millions worldwide from 1888 onwards. This second volume of the Dick Donovan adventures collects three novels and a short story, written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston...
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- A well-travelled journalist James Edward Preston Muddock – though he was better known as Joyce Emerson Preston Muddock, wrote prolifically in a number of genres. The vast majority of his output were sensational detective stories in which „Dick Donovan” was the main character. In the ‘lost world’ novel „The Sunless City” (1905), Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin pilots a submarine through a bottomless lake....
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- British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallace’s works have been...
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- There are peaceful people and there are passionate people, and once in a while you encounter someone who is beyond passionate, and probably murderous. Such people often make very clever predators, changing name and lifestyle like chameleons. How many will you meet in this story? How many spies? Will the detective or the „clever people” prevail? Read on and discover the trail.
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- Found and Fettered – A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories is a collection of short stories dates from 1894 written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. This varied collection includes material...
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- Written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. In these thrilling stories, Muddock writes under the guise of his fictional alter ego – the private detective Dick Donovan. From the murky underworld of Victorian London to the grand houses of the upper classes, Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels, exposing villainous conspiracies...
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- The book, written in the 19 c. by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is about a married gentleman, first accused of murder of his lover and later acquitted due to brilliant investigation by police in spite of alleged heavy evidence against the gentleman. The real murder,...
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- ”The Clue of the Dead Hand” novela features detective Peter Brodie and has a Scottish setting. It tells of a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance at Corbie Hall, „a strange, weird sort of place...” that has „an eeriness about it... calculated to make one shudder.” As much a rationalized ghost story as a detective story, it also involves male impersonation.
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- Dick Donovan’s detective was considered a great ‘rival’ to Holmes. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. „The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective” is a thrilling collection of mystery and adventure tales (21 in all) including „The Queensferry Mystery” in which a series of remarkable house burglaries take place during the winter months in Edinburgh....
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- Dick Donovan was a pseudonym used by (Mr) Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1842-1934). Muddock was also a journalist and wrote many other books. His series characters included not only Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, but also Russian Secret Service agent Michael Danevitch, Vincent Trill of the Detective Service, private detective Tyler Tatlock and early forensic criminologist Fabian Field among...
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- Co takiego może wstrząsnąć małżeństwem jednej z najbardziej namiętnych literackich par? Donovan Kincaid to człowiek, który dominuje w każdym pomieszczeniu, do którego wchodzi. Nie boi się kłamać, aby dostać to, czego pragnie. On i Sabrina są małżeństwem od dwóch lat, jednak oboje skrywają przed sobą niebezpieczne sekrety. Donovan po raz pierwszy w życiu czuje, że traci kontrolę. Jego nadopiekuńczość...
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- Błyskotliwe studium charakteru i ciemnych stron kobiecej psychiki. Czasem, żeby żyć, trzeba zabić… Wysepką Little Tall wstrząsa wiadomość o zabójstwie bogatej Very Donovan. Podejrzenie natychmiast pada na jej wieloletnią opiekunkę, Dolores Claiborne. Wszyscy w okolicy wiedzą, że praca u pani Donovan była prawdziwym piekłem. Dolores miała więc powody, by nienawidzić chlebodawczyni. Nie...
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- James Donovan pewnego dnia nie wraca do domu. Taksówka na próżno stoi przed wejściem firmy w której pracuje. Wszystko dlatego, że ma coś, czego oczekują jego porywacze. Wkrótce okaże się, że porwanie to tylko pretekst do czegoś znacznie większego. Czy James porzuci swoje dotychczasowe życie, by rozpocząć misję tak ważną dla obecnego świata? Czy oferta okaże się wystarczająco kusząca? To wszystko w kolejnym...
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