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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...

Tom Armstrong, commonly known by the common name of Captain Armstrong, could boast the amount of knowledge that he had or the discoveries he made. However, he is already 5 years retired. Armstrong’s companion, named Harold Coventry, was a young man of about six-and-twenty years. Like his companion, the sea was his passion, and although he was not a very wealthy man, he managed to explore every sea....

R. Austin Freeman was one of the best mystery writers ever and this book is one to prove it. Harold Monkhouse is a very sick man but no one including his doctor seems to know what is wrong with him. When he is found dead of arsenic poisoning, his brother demands an investigation and everyone in the household is a suspect. Who was behind this cruel death; the loving wife, Barbara; her friend, Madeline...

Nadchodzą święta Bożego Narodzenia. W Potwornicach mieszkańcy przeżywają horror świąteczny, bo małżeństwo Kumorków zrobiło sobie „Las Vegas” – gigantyczną świetlną instalację składającą się z ustrojonych choinek, bałwanków i mikołajów. Mieszkańcy się denerwują, a turyści walą drzwiami i oknami zobaczyć to najbardziej ozdobione miejsce w Polsce, a może i na świecie. Wigilia i pasterka mijają spokojnie,...