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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...

Major Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 Dulwich, London – 22 November 1948 London) was a British author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel „The Four Feathers”. His short story „The Sapphire” follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and so he...

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. „The Ghost of Down Hill” is an entertaining mystery novella, based on the idea that a ghost of a monk haunts a house built on top of former holy ground. This novella has upbeat tone and surprising outcome....

Thriller z cyklu Sigma Force. Fascynujące najnowsze odkrycia naukowe, tajemnice sprzed wieków, dzika Afryka i akcja, która zapiera dech w piersiach. W obozie działającym pod auspicjami ONZ w kongijskiej dżungli znajdują schronienie ludzie uciekający przed falą powodzi. Młoda Francuzka działająca tam w ramach organizacji Lekarze Bez Granic odkrywa przypadki nieznanej choroby wywołującej u pacjentów...