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- Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness’ accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title...
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- Not all buried treasure is found in a pirate’s chest... A chill-packed mystery from the master of suspense. This is what Aidan de Brune is all about, a complex, old fashioned mystery, with a highly unlikely solution. De Brune’s novel „Douchard’s Island” was published in 1931. Other novels by De Brune were reputedly published in the USA under various pseudonyms, but these have not been traced. Aidan...
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- 1936. „Sanctuary Island” is a crime novel by the pioneer of detective fiction Edgar Wallace (an adaption by Robert Curtis). Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter’s School and the Board School, but after a frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military....
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- 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....
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- The protagonist, the real adventurer Jim Maitland returns to England. There he meets a charming girl, Judy Draycott, who needs his help. She tells the story of her brother Arthur, who knew where the treasures were hidden, but he was killed. Judy decides to first get to the treasure and asks Jim to help her.
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- Sir Richard Hannay, retired mining engineer, lives a comfortable suburban life outside London, but feels old age and stodginess coming on and longs to have his mettle tested again. He gets his chance when a promise he made years ago in Rhodesia, to protect the son of an old acquaintance from a sinister conspiracy, and the action moves rapidly from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island...
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- This is a very early novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim from 1897. The wealthy and bored Lord Hildyard, Marquis of Esholt, is on a yachting tour with a group of friends, including his kept lover, Pauline Owston. When Hildyard spies an apparently uninhabited island, he slips off the ship in search of adventure. In the middle of the night, he hears wonderful violin music and finds a young and beautiful girl,...
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- The Marriage of Esther, surrounded by a messy community of settlers on a remote island off the coast of Australia, combines the best qualities of a classic action-adventure film with an ingeniously crafted riddle – and right in the middle of all this is a heartbreaking novel.
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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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- Arsene Lupin, Master Detective makes his reappearance in this thrilling romantic novel. He returns to a wild island stocked with druids, lost riches, and 30 coffins! Essentially, the complex plot revolves around Veronique, a young woman who travels to an isolated island off the coast of Brittany in search of her kidnapped son. She soon discovers that a terrible prophecy involving herself is about to...
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- Trevor Dene and his wife are looking forward to attending a masked ball in Lavra, a Long Island mansion owned by the wealthy Tallifer family. But the problem is brewing in the form of a prolonged feud with local businessman Brent Hordern. Resenting the way Tallifers use their „new money,” and decided to marry their daughter Jenny, Horder swore to attend the ball at all costs.
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- Clubfoot the Avenger is a delightful treasure hunt on the Pacific island from the fearless Major Oakuvuda. The circumstances of how Okuvud gains knowledge of the treasures and the subsequent pursuit of the sworn enemy of Okuvud, clubfoot, made for a swift, intense and fascinating reading highlighted by romantic interest and a satisfactory ending.
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- W mrożącej krew w żyłach opowieści true crime Ann Rule zgłębia tajemnicę, która wstrząsnęła spokojną społecznością Whidbey Island w stanie Waszyngton. Rozplątując sieć kłamstw i intryg, Rule przedstawia fascynujące spojrzenie na ludzkie pragnienie miłości, pieniędzy i zemsty. Ta skrupulatna relacja skupia się na przypadku Russela Douglasa, którego życie kończy się tragicznie w śnieżną noc Bożego Narodzenia....
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- Kilkoro przyjaciół planuje wspólny wypad na bezludną wyspę Happy Island. Beztroskie wakacje szybko przerywają drobne sprzeczki. Napięcie rośnie z każdą chwilą, jednak nikt nie spodziewa się tego, co wkrótce się wydarzy. Kiedy jeden z przyjaciół nie wraca długo z lasu, reszta wybiera się na poszukiwania. Ciszę przerywa strzał. Na wyspie znajduje się morderca, który nie poprzestanie na jednej tragedii....
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- The story of the liberation of a Russian prisoner from an island in eastern Siberia. A young English millionaire thinks he is saving the father of his beloved, famous nihilist; but when a person is safe, he discovers that he really shot down the most notorious diamond robber in the world. The story is full of sensations, and people who like such a fantasy will find it vibrant and lively from start...
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- The novel begins with the fact that Phil Nevitt, an employee of an American alcoholic beverage company, goes to Annunziata, the mythical island of Futner’s creation in the West Indies, to learn everything he can about the Randall Trantora rum. „The Obeah Murders” show their fantastic roots with so many genre influences (spy, western, adventure, supernatural and detective). In the end, however, the...
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- A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes and a tragic plot. This story tells of a wealthy Englishman who fell in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Krutha in the Mediterranean Sea. The very dark influence of the...
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- A large, square wooden veranda covered by a red and white awning, above a wide silent sweep of flowing river, whose huge rocks, worn smooth through a thousand ages, raised their backs about the stream, a glimpse of green feathery palms and flaming scarlet poinsettias on the island opposite, and beyond the great drab desert, the illimitable waste of stony, undulating sands stretching away to the infinite,...
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- Opieka nad niedomagającym milionerem, Seanem O’Rileyem, wydawała się Caer, pielęgniarce z powołania, łatwym zadaniem. Jednak szybko okazuje się, że luksus, w jakim żyją mieszkańcy wielkiej rezydencji na Rhode Island, nie łagodzi trapiących ich konfliktów i nie sprzyja przyjaznej atmosferze. Życie w tym domu przypomina spacer nad przepaścią. Gdy w dodatku w tajemniczych okolicznościach znika wspólnik...
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- KAŻDY DAŁBY SIĘ ZABIĆ, BY DOŁĄCZYĆ... do kolektywu klubów dla celebrytów rozsianych po całym świecie, w których bogaci i sławni mogą ostro imprezować, a następnie odpoczywać w pięciogwiazdkowych apartamentach, z dala od wścibskich oczu fanów i mediów. Najbardziej spektakularnym z nich jest Island Home - pilnie strzeżony, ultraluksusowy kurort u wybrzeży Anglii. Każdy pragnie dostać zaproszenie...
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