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The Million Dollar Suitcase – ebook
Alice MacGowan Perry Newberry
Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story „The Million Dollar Suitcase” (1922). Jeremiah „Jerry” Boyne, head of the Bankers’ Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft – from inside a bank – of a suitcase filled with nearly a million dollars in cash. Turns out to be a high spirited man with extraordinary powers of observation and logical deduction from observed facts. The...Data dostępności:
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Million dollars in 24 hours – ebook
Sasha Lemani
Think making a million dollars takes years of hard work? This book reveals the real-life story of a young entrepreneur who went from zero to millionaire — in just 24 hours. In this book, you’ll discover: — How to spot money-making opportunities with ease — Why making big money doesn’t have to be complicated If you’ve ever dreamed of making money quickly or becoming a self-made millionaire, this book...Data dostępności:
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The Four Million – ebook
O. Henry
This anthology contains 25 tales of old New York city at the dawn of the 20th century. A collection of O. Henry’s short stories bearing his trademark irony, comic misunderstandings, and surprise endings. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O. Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. The true hero of „The Four Million” is the city of New...Data dostępności:
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The Million Pound Deposit – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This 1929 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim neatly describes some of the frothy financial dealings of the late stage of the roaring 20’s in England and centered around a commercial chemical formula. The formula for the process is carefully guarded from it’s own employees, but is stolen one night by a band of five adventurers who plan to ransom it for 1 million pounds. Two men are killed during the robbery....Data dostępności:
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The Missing Million – ebook
Edgar Wallace
When millionaire Rex Walton mysteriously vanishes on the eve of his wedding, a chain of strange, violent events is set in motion. Intrepid Joan Walton assists Inspector Dicker in the search for her brother. The main suspect is notorious criminal „The Panda” („The Prince of Blackmailers”). You quickly find out that Rex has his own connection to the blackmailer. This is a great example of The Golden...Data dostępności:
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The Lost Million – ebook
William Le Queux
”See! It’s–it’s in my kit-bag, over there! The thing–the Thing at which the whole world will stand aghast! „ The thin, white-faced, grey-bearded man lying on his back in bed roused himself with difficulty, and with skinny finger pointed at his strong but battered old leather bag lying in the corner of the small hotel bedroom.Data dostępności:
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Messenger’s Million – ebook
T.C. Bridges
Fat Mr. Horner might have changed his mind if he could have watched Gilbert’s face as he drove his rattling old motorcycle over the bridge and climbed the steep slope beyond. The young man’s lips were clenched and his eyes were hard. These weekly trips to Taverton were the only gap in the deadly monotony of life in the works of Carnaby Clay, and he hated to return there, like a boy hates to return...Data dostępności:
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The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million – ebook
O. Henry
„The Trimmed Lamp” follows „The Four Million” and provides another series of twenty-five short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. Contents: „A Madison Square Arabian Night”, „The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, „The Pendulum”, „Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”, „The Assessor...Data dostępności:
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The Million Dollar Story – ebook
Edgar Wallace
John Sands needed a bride – more than that, however, he needed somebody with a criminal mind. Luckily a female convict has escaped from prison that very morning and was sitting in his house. Romance and mystery, with classic twists and turns. As is typical with Wallace, this book includes a death, a love-affair, a kidnapping, an intrepid amateur. British author Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)...Data dostępności:
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A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime – ebook
Monica Murphy
Dla fanów Punk 57, Przybranego brata, Dręczyciela oraz Rywala! Niezwykle wyczekiwana zagraniczna premiera! Wren Beaumont zdecydowanie ma powody, by czuć się królową szkoły. Ludzie z liceum ją uwielbiają, dziewczyny, chcą być takie jak ona, a chłopcy podążają za nią pełnym pożądania wzrokiem. Czasami Wren czuje się tym zmęczona, ale za wszelką cenę nie chce ich wszystkich zawieść. Ani ich wyobrażenia...Data dostępności:
The Ivory Trail – ebook
Talbot Mundy
Sometimes a big and dangerous adventure is fabulous wealth. There were hundred million pounds of ivory in those places that just waited for them! But, of course, the ivory was hidden in the darkest heart of Africa, and if they came out of the continent, they would certainly have to deal with the colonial government. But what a wonderful adventure without danger and call?Data dostępności:
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Red Belts – ebook
Hugh Pendexter
The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event...Data dostępności:
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Skull-Face – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all things–a hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching across the unknown voids–something that tore ruthlessly at the separating curtains of my illusions...Data dostępności:
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Les Forceurs de blocus – ebook
Jules Verne
Le navire s’appelait „Comet”. Il établit une communication régulière entre Glasgow et Greenock et se déplaçait à une vitesse de six milles à l’heure. Depuis lors, plus d’un million de bateaux à vapeur et de robots se sont levés et sont descendus le long du fleuve écossais et les habitants de la grande ville commerçante située sur ses rives ont dû vivre avec toutes les merveilles de la construction...Data dostępności:
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Happy Jack – ebook
Max Brand
If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you’ll like „Happy Jack” (1936) by Max Brand. One bullet was all it took to change Jack Anderson from a carefree boy into a hunted man. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists and turns. The journey is the entertaining part. Highly recommended,...Data dostępności:
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Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief – ebook
Max Brand
Another Sleeper story, featuring Sleeper, a gunslinger turned horse-thief, from the collection „More Tales of the Wild West”. Six action-packed stories of the Old West, filled with unforgettable characters, includes „A Lucky Dog,” in which man’s best friend helps a would-be killer and thief find salvation, along with „A First Blooding,” „Inverness,” (aka „Sleeper Turns Horse-Thief”) and „Death in Alkali...Data dostępności:
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The Fighting Four – ebook
Max Brand
His name was Jim Silver, but they called him Silvertip. Jim Silver, the man with tufts of silver hair over each temple, the man who sometimes looked like a horned devil in the moonlight, hungered for action as most men hunger for food. And he found plenty when bank robber Jim Lovell sought his protection – because, unknown to Silvertip, Lovell was packing a half-million dollars in stolen cash along...Data dostępności:
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The Jackson Trail – ebook
Max Brand
One of the most prolific writers of all time, he wrote more than 500 novels and nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. Alongside Zane Grey, the western section of any bookstore is usually packed with Max Brand titles. „The Jackson Trail” is another outstanding western that demands your attention. In it, Jesse Jackson is riding where the law feared to go... Packed...Data dostępności:
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The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch of the Russian Secret Service – ebook
Dick Donovan
Dick Donovan was a pseudonym used by (Mr) Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1842-1934). Muddock was also a journalist and wrote many other books. His series characters included not only Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, but also Russian Secret Service agent Michael Danevitch, Vincent Trill of the Detective Service, private detective Tyler Tatlock and early forensic criminologist Fabian Field among...Data dostępności:
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The Shakespeare Murders – ebook
A.G. Macdonell
An amusing thriller by A.G. Macdonell, one of six mysteries he wrote under the pseudonym Neil Gordon. Macdonell is best known for the gently satirical novel „England, Their England”, which appeared the same year as „The Shakespeare Murders” and enjoyed a great success, which probably led to his abandoning the mystery genre. In „The Shakespeare Murders”, the treasure was to be found in an English country...Data dostępności:
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