january

„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...

„A Detective’s Triumphs” (1891) by Dick Donovan – eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 – 30 January 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Jackie Farnish has grown up in a grindingly poor household, and as she reaches adulthood she resolves to do whatever is necessary to claw her way out of poverty. She is loved by her childhood playmate Joe Bartle, but...

W małym miasteczku każdy zna twoje grzechy. Dla jednych Krzysztof Garlicki żył jak kloszard, dla innych – jak mnich. Odkąd w lesie nad Zalewem Zegrzyńskim znaleziono jego zwłoki, wszyscy zadają sobie pytanie: po co zabijać człowieka, który sam wypisał się z życia? I czy ta zbrodnia ma coś wspólnego z jego ucieczką z domu przed prawie trzydziestu laty? Do rozwiązania sprawy zostaje oddelegowana...