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- Mijają trzy miesiące, odkąd Sarah nie płaci czynszu. Zarządzająca nieruchomością Jenn wchodzi do małego londyńskiego mieszkania, gdzie gra radio, a na małym stole jadalnym stoją nakrycia dla trzech osób. I rozkładające się ciało zwinięte na kanapie… Jak to możliwe, że minął prawie rok, zanim ktoś je znalazł? Kto płacił jej czynsz? Kogo ofiara oczekiwała na obiedzie w noc śmierci? Jenn jest zdeterminowana,...
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- Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, in his lifetime, earned him the title, „King of the Modern Thriller. This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1934. „The Woman From the East and Other Stories” is an enjoyable collection of short stories that include „The Chopham Affair”, „The Hopper”, „The Silver...
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- A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a „cadger of suppers”, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with...
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- „A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and...
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- „Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but...
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- A prolific Australian novelist, Guy Boothby was noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. In 1894 he published On the Wallaby; or, Through the East and Across Australia, an account of the travels of himself and his brother, including a description of their journey across Australia from Cooktown to Adelaide. He wrote over 50 books over the course of...
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- There is an old saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, but as far as this is true, very few of us really understand. In the East, indeed, it is almost amazing. There are people involved in trade, some of whom are very profitable, about whom the world as a whole has never heard of, and which an ordinary Englishman, in all likelihood, would refuse to believe, even if...
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- If you like Golden Age locked room mysteries this is a good one! „Deep Lake Mystery” (1928) by Carolyn Wells, author of „The Clue”, is set in the lake region of Wisconsin. Our narrator Gray Norris is invited to join his old friend, the detective Keeley Moore, and his new wife at their vacation cottage at Deep Lake, Wisconsin for a relaxing month of fishing, swimming, boating, and just getting away...
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- Mr. Mason is here at his best. While working out very deftly an extremely intricate and clever plot, he gives us excellent characterization and a remarkably vivid series of glimpses into different settings and phases of life. Beginning in the opulent lands of India, home of enchantment, color and adventure, the novel „No Other Tiger” becomes a mystery that begins with a tiger hunt across Asia. The...
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- Another fantastic story from Fred M. White. The island of Tregarthen is a long green succulent piece from the mainland, about eight miles long and five wide. It is protected from the east and north by granite walls, rising a thousand feet up and dark, and its music is the Atlantic thunder and the cry of countless sea birds. Where is it? What matters it? Not so many leagues from Tintagel, for they tell...
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- Arthur Morrison, who was English novelist, short story writer and journalist, wrote pioneering realistic narratives about working-class life in London’s East End. He is also celebrated for his exciting mystery stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, who served as a natural successor to Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive book presents Morrison’s collection of short stories. The collection includes:...
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- „Green Ginger” is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a „Cunning Murrell” tale, also „The Seller of Hate”, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and „The Chamber of Light”, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are...
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- Morrison, a novelist and short-story writer, is most often remembered for a series featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, but before that, he wrote several grim and violent books about life in the London slums. „The Hole in the Wall” is one of the most gripping adventure stories ever written. Stephen Kemp goes to live with his mysterious grandfather after his mother’s death, and is gradually drawn...
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- The novel of Edgar Wallace’s famous play told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense. In the shady setting of a solicitor’s office on the East End waterfront a plan is evolved – all quite legal to get hold of a large American legacy bequeathed to an English girl. Murder is planned and tried: kidnapping, incarceration in a London barge, a dash for freedom, the intervention...
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- If you have a fondness for mystery you should find this novel to be an entertaining read. Lord Alceston, the Earl of Harrowdean, statesman, philanthropist, nobleman, is murdered in his own study on the night of a great ball given at his home. On the same night a mysterious woman is murdered in the slums of East London. The valet disappears. Thus begins a moody and dramatic tale of love, jealousy, and...
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- „The Invasion of 1910” is a novel written mainly by William Le Queux (along with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is centered on an invasion by the Germans, who have managed to land a sizable invasion force on the East Coast of England. They reach London and occupy half the city. A junior Member of Parliament organizes a resistance movement, the „League of Defenders” and the Germans seem...
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- Ciało supermodelki Luli Landry zostaje znalezione pod balkonem jej londyńskiego apartamentu. Policja stwierdza samobójstwo, lecz brat ofiary nie wierzy w tę wersję i zatrudnia prywatnego detektywa, Cormorana Strike’a. Strike jest weteranem wojennym, podczas służby w Afganistanie ucierpiał i fizycznie i psychicznie. Ma kłopoty finansowe i właśnie rozstał się z kobietą swojego życia. Sprawa Luli...
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- W nowym thrillerze policyjnym z bestsellerowej serii o Eve Dallas autorstwa J. D. Robb to, co wyglądało na kłótnię kochanków o tragicznym finale, okazało się czymś znacznie poważniejszym i bardziej przerażającym. Widok pracowni w West Village, gdzie popełniono przestępstwo, zdaje się świadczyć o klasycznej zbrodni w afekcie: dwa kieliszki do wina przy łóżku, dźwięki muzyki i młoda rzeźbiarka, Ariel...
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- Rankin i Rebus w ich najlepszym wydaniu! Kolejna powieść z cyklu z detektywem Johnem Rebusem, który tym razem opuszcza ponury Edynburg, by udać się do Londynu i tam ruszyć tropem niebezpiecznego seryjnego zabójcy kanibala. Inspektor John Rebus, filar edynburskiej policji, zostaje wezwany do Londynu. Scotland Yard liczy, że jego wiedza o modus operandi seryjnych zabójców pomoże w schwytaniu szaleńca,...
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- Piąta część przygód panny Murphy. Po powrocie do Nowego Jorku z Adare – pięknej, choć mrocznej posiadłości senatora Flynna, Molly ma dość pracy detektywa. Pragnie stabilizacji i spokoju. Rozważa nawet podjęcie pracy w Nebrasce, w roli nauczycielki. Chce również zapomnieć o kapitanie policji, przystojnym Danielu Sullivanie, ale gdy ten trafia do więzienia podejrzewany o przyjęcie łapówki, Molly...
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