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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....

John Buchan was a Scottish author and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. He wrote a series of books that follow the adventures of Richard Hannay, an expatriate Scot who was first introduced in the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Set in Scotland in 1745, during the Jacobite Rebellion, this dark story of loyalty and betrayal on the road to Culloden Moor recounts the adventures...

Mystery of the Cloomber unfolds, revealing Heathstone’s war crime against a Buddhist priest. Narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scottish man, who moves from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire to care for the family estate when his father’s half brother dies. Near the estate is The Cloomber Hall, for years uninhabited, but now the residence of John Berthier Heatherstone, a general of the Indian Army. General...

Od królowej Anny do królowej Wiktorii. Wykłady o literaturze i kulturze brytyjskiej z XVIII i XIX wieku. Tom 7 Siódmy tom serii "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria" zawiera zarówno nowe odczytania podejmowanych wcześniej zagadnień, jak i analizy kolejnych istotnych tematów badawczych. Autorzy koncentrują się na literaturze, kulturze, historii społecznej i politycznej Wielkiej Brytanii w okresie,...