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The Dark Star – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
Jim Nyland, an artist with a touch of Irish in his blood, becomes an amateur adventurer among professional spies who, in the style of the Hitchcockian protagonist, treat the danger in which he finds himself as nothing more than fun.Data dostępności:
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The Mountain Fugitive – ebook
Max Brand
Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, a penniless fighter constantly in trouble, he finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers. Now he has an enemy for life. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. An interesting story written in the...Data dostępności:
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Master of the World – ebook
Jules Verne
In the first part of the story, the brave inventor Robur sets off on a world tour on a giant helicopter „Albatross” in order to prove the superiority of aircraft heavier than air over balloons. The work has an intrigue that unfolds in a rather interesting way, as well as a very unpredictable ending. This is in the style of Verne – when the heroes of one work can easily appear in another, remember the...Data dostępności:
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The Maid-at-Arms – ebook
Robert W. Chambers
This is an outstanding book written in the old style. The story is set between the middle and the end of the Revolutionary War and has a good mix of adventure, romance and complex characters with a bit of history thrown in for good measure.Data dostępności:
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Athabasca Bill – ebook
Bessie Marchant
In Alberta, Canada, young Fred’s family awaits the return of their father who is looking for a site for a new home for them. But just as he return, bloodhounds seeking the thief who stole a box containing hundreds of dollars trace the scent to Fred’s father. Fred sets out to find Athabasca Bill who may have information that will prove that his father is innocent. Elizabeth Marchant (1862–1941) was...Data dostępności:
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Purple Pirate – ebook
Talbot Mundy
Without exaggeration, a very good, rich, interesting event, an adventure and a historical novel in an epic style about the noble personality of the Tros of Samothrace. The page by page describes the incredible courage and dedication of the protagonist in the struggle for Greek freedom and independence while helping the British and Druids fight Julius Caesar.Data dostępności:
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The Three Eyes – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
In „The Three Eyes”, author Maurice Leblanc veers away from the Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries that were long his stock-in-trade and mixes things up by introducing some science fiction elements. Maurice Leblanc was a 20th century French writer best known for his short stories. Leblanc’s first foray into pure science fiction. Scholar Dorgeroux dies before completing his mysterious message whether it’s...Data dostępności:
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The Table – ebook
Edgar Wallace Robert Curtis
Here is Edgar Wallace’s famous stage-play as told by Robert Curtis in story form with all the dramatic excitement and suspense that thrilled theatre-goers. Robert Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1918 he was reunited...Data dostępności:
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The Blonde Lady – ebook
Maurice Leblanc
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...Data dostępności:
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Sandi the Kingmaker – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the „Dark Continent”. Sanders and Co. return to Africa (following the events in Bones in London) to bring the old Kings country under the Union Jack and to try and find what has happened to a missionary and his daughter. It is written in a delightfully humorous style. „Sandi, the King-maker” among other novels by Edgar Wallace conveys the paternal...Data dostępności:
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The Day of Temptation – ebook
William Le Queux
The style ofThe Day of Temptationis very melodramatic and overwritten – adjectives and adverbs abound to the confusion of the reader. The book is very much set in high society and sometimes reminds me of the immortal Daisy Ashford – I’m sure books like this were among her inspiration.Data dostępności:
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Po latach w Paryżu – ebook
Ella Carey
Cat dziedziczy paryskie mieszkanie, które nie było otwierane od 70 lat. Dziewczyna chce się dowiedzieć, dlaczego trafiło akurat do niej, a pomaga jej w tym wnuk dawnej właścicielki. Cat Jordan utrzymuje się z robienia zdjęć klientom pracowni fotograficznej w Nowym Jorku. Gotowa jest rozpocząć nowy rozdział u boku swojego świetnie sytuowanego chłopaka, gdy niespodziewanie dowiaduje się, że odziedziczyła...Data dostępności:
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Co nam zostało – ebook
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Przejmującą powieść o rodzinie, której członkowie wskutek życiowej tragedii oddalają się od siebie, a potem na powrót jednoczą. Autorka międzynarodowych bestsellerów "Sekretna córka" oraz "Ukochany syn" oddaje teraz w nasze ręce przejmującą powieść o rodzinie, której członkowie wskutek życiowej tragedii oddalają się od siebie, a potem na powrót jednoczą. Rodzina Olandrów uosabia współczesny...Data dostępności:
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The Green Eye of Goona – ebook
Arthur Morrison
Morrison’s most popular books are probably his detective stories, featuring Martin Hewitt, a methodical investigator, who uses his ability to be „thoroughly at home among any and every class of people” to invite confidences in gathering evidence. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing. Morrison made two other forays into the detective field,...Data dostępności:
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The New Tenant – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in mystery and nobody seems to know anything about him other than that he is wealthy? Strange things continue to happen... „The New Tenant” is a devious mystery from the „the prince of storytellers” Phillips...Data dostępności:
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The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
„The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard” is a volume collecting 8 short stories about a courier and cavalryman in the personal service of Napoleon Bonaparte. The stories in „The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard” are all told in the first person by an aged Gerard looking back on his military endeavours in the early 1800s when there was no man prouder to serve the Emperor Napoleon. Etienne Gerard is a dashing,...Data dostępności:
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The Stoat – ebook
Lynn Brock
We meet a man named Margesson, who suffers from a mentally ill wife and two harmful children. Unfortunately, Margesson will soon not only die, but also his offspring. Traveling to Ireland – the author was Irish – plays a decisive role in understanding the strange sequence of events that are deeply rooted in the past. The darkness of Brock’s books is more fashionable these days than when they were written,...Data dostępności:
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Bones of the River – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as „Bones”. It is a time when the world’s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honor, a time of trading...Data dostępności:
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Fenton’s Quest – ebook
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Women are forced to marry and forced to marry for money, not love. As in all her books, the basis is a mystery, and, like everything I read, for the reader, the screaming is obvious what is actually happening. But this does not detract from the expectations of history. The characters are well drawn, each with a distinctive style.Data dostępności:
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay – ebook
H.C. McNeile
Bulldog Drummond At Bay is another story from the famous series of Herman Cyril McNeile. This story is full of mysteries for the reader. Drummond hears cries near his yard, then notices traces of blood there. He meets two guys who claim to be after a madman. The main character is determined to explore in his unique style, but discovers a mysterious message.Data dostępności:
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