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- „The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead” is a collection of connected stories about Mendel Honeywood, a diminutive insurance agent who skips out on his family and his hometown of Okehampstead, Massachusetts, and arrives in England, without a cent, to enter into a life of „crime”. He meets up with James Van Clarence Smith, disinherited scion of the wealthy American millionaires, and Lady Felicia Lakenham,...
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- Arsène Lupin – un Robin des Bois de la «Belle Epoque», l’énigmatique personnage, le fantaisiste gentleman, qui n’opère que dans les châteaux et les salons, l’insaisissable cambrioleur dont on racontait les prouesses dans tous les journaux depuis des mois, l’homme aux mille déguisements. Ce n’est pas un aristocrate qui vit comme un anarchiste mais un anarchiste qui vit comme un aristocrate. Ajoutons...
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- William Hulbert Footner was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His most successful creation was the beautiful and brilliant Madame Rosika Storey and her plain assistant who explains the evolving solutions to her boss’ cases. His Madame Storey mysteries fit the flapping 1920s like the long lizard gloves that graced her arms and did well supporting his traveling family’s lifestyle....
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- A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsene Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsene Lupin series written by Leblanc himself. The collection includes nine stories dealing with various...
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- A tale of the sinister afterlife of Sir Robert Depard, a local magnate who lived a dissolute life in Yorkshire. The story is told by an unnamed gentleman who travels around Holland with his brother-in-law (Mr Blake) to study architecture. The gentleman wonders why Mr. Blake never takes off his high collar around his neck.
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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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- Arsène Lupin est un personnage de fiction français créé par Maurice Leblanc. Ce gentleman cambrioleur est particulièrement connu pour son talent à user de déguisements et changer d’identité pour commettre ses délits. Le livre comprend les ouvrages suivants: Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur; Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès; L’Aiguille creuse; 813; Le Bouchon de cristal; Les Confidences d’Arsène...
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- The protagonist Destin is a poor gentleman who meets his soul mate and together they create Green Mouse Lmtd to further his search for a soul mate through psychic waves.
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- This action-packed novel is a warning. Its main character, the young Frenchman Benedict Thurpin – the newly-minted d’Artagnan, daredevil, wit, Breter, warrior, painter, palmist, hunter, gallant gentleman, personification of the spirit of France – like a volunteer fighting Prussians and performing extraordinary feats.
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- This was not until they left their right front and went to a narrow, single-track road that lay under the wall and was securely guarded. Suddenly there appeared an awkward Asian gentleman, who once was the image of a Biblical shepherd.
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- Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc. Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail’s fictional character Rocambole. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats are worse villains than he is. The book includes the following works: The Extraordinary...
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- In a dark, narrow street in Paris lives an old widow and her pretty young daughter, sit by the window most days. They share a poor but contented existence, supporting themselves through embroidery work. They see a gentleman in a brown coat pass by in the mornings and return in the evenings. The mother always remarks that he appears either over-worked or in delicate health. The daughter ignores most...
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- If you enjoy the Sherlock Holmes series, then Arsene Lupin will be another detective series for your library. Leblanc was a French novelist and short story writer known for creating the character Arsene Lupin, who is the French counterpart to the English Sherlock Holmes. In „The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective” – the great French gentleman...
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- Captain Austen Rotherby is on a mission of revenge in Paris and chances upon Louis, the head waiter of his favorite restaurant. Bored, he follows Louis to a shady café where he spots a pair he’s long been intrigued by – a South American gentleman and a young girl. Because of certain complications, Captain Rotheby finds himself forced to leave Paris, only to find himself travelling with the aforementioned...
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- From the author of the Thorndyke detective stories. The stories follow the adventures of Romney Pringle, a gentleman con man, thief and master of disguises–who is not above using his keen observation and wits to track down other criminals. These twelve tales conjure up the authentic atmosphere of Victorian London and offer a thrilling alternative to the ascetic honesty of Sherlock Holmes!
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- This is a historical novel written in the 1900s but set in 1680s Jamestown, Virginia. The plot revolves around the anger of the colonists over the Navigation Act, which robbed them of their profits from the tobacco crop. At the center of this little rebellion is the romance between Harry Wingfield, a gentleman tutor, and Mary Cavendish, a headstrong eighteen-year-old.
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- La séduisante belle femme, qui est la fille du majestueux comte Cagliostro et qui posséde des nombreaux secrets de son père, adore les toutes sortes des aventures. Pendant cette chasse aux aventures elle est jointe par Arsène Lupin – un filou génial, un gentleman-cambrioleur. Tout sera allé bien, s’il n’était tombé amoureaux...
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- Winnetou (niem. Winnetou, der Rote Gentleman) - powieść przygodowa Karola Maya z 1893 roku. Najpopularniejsza powieść tego autora, uważana za klasykę literatury dziecięco-młodzieżowej. Była tłumaczona na wiele języków, a bohaterowie tej powieści, tacy jak dzielny Apacz Winnetou i jego biały przyjaciel Old Shatterhand, ruszyli wyobraźnią wielu czytelników na całym świecie.
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- Austin Freeman and Dr. John James Pitcairn, a medical office at Halloway Prison, writing under the common pseudonym, Clifford Ashdown. This mystery collection is the first work of Freeman and it is a delightful bundle of adventures features the gentleman criminal Romney Pringle, an engaging crook and literary agent who lives in Furnival’s Inn, cycling everywhere no matter what the scam! This series...
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- „Paul Clifford” is a novel published in 1830 by Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) who was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. It tells the life of Paul Clifford, a man who leads a dual life as both a criminal and an upscale gentleman. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. This is the novel that first...
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