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- The old man on the bed stirred uneasily, and his white beard twitched. His wide-open eyes looked at his son with a blank look, as Michael had looked at him all his life. With a slightly trembling hand, Serena poured a few drops into a spoon and pressed them into her half-open lips.
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- In this collection of short stories, the reader learns the killer’s identity long before the brilliant medical detective takes the stage. These are brilliant early examples of open secrets where the question is not who, but how will they be caught?
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- The Prince broke open a big box of choice ‘Petroffs’, selected one, lit it slowly, and walked pensively to the window. He was in a good mood that morning, for he had just got rid of a troublesome visitor.
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- Jacob Herapat, wealthy real estate developer and Member of Parliament. found dead. With a gun at my side. But, it seems, an hour later the coachman brings him home. And what according to his will, what surprises she will open. Several people, including the police, are trying to solve the mystery.
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- Aurora, the spoiled daughter of a banker, receives an offer to get married. But almost before the wedding, the groom finds out about some secret. Aurora cannot open it and the lovers part. But the girl did not suffer for long, after a few months she marries another of her fans. But the secret has not gone away. She hangs over a married couple, spoils the life of Aurora.
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- No second glance was needed to realise the pitiful truth. The man seated there in his fine library, with the summer sunset slanting across the red carpet from the open French windows, was blind. Since his daughter Gabrielle had been a pretty, prattling child of nine, nursing her dolly, he had never looked upon her fair face. But he was ever as devoted to her as she to him.
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- Correspondence with Knipper is interesting not only as a chronicle of the last years of Chekhov’s life, not only as a valuable source of information about the first years of the Art Theater. Knipper took an exceptional place in Chekhov’s spiritual life in recent years, and letters to her most fully reflect his inner world in those years, to the extent that Chekhov generally considered it necessary...
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- Set in an era when train travel was a privilege of the wealthy few, Arthur Griffiths’ „The Rome Express” features the exciting story of a murder on a luxury train and the ensuing investigation with most of the characters coming from higher classes. The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a general bustle fills the train....
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- In „The House in the Mist,” weary traveler Hugh Austin happens upon a house in a village whilst seeking shelter on a misty night. The house is open, and initially the reception he gets is quite strange to him, he then realizes that he was taken for the relative of a dead man and that the gathering he encounters is a meeting of relatives regarding an inheritance that was left. By the time they find...
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- This short story revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the confines of Mr. Stoughton’s business concern. Mr. Stoughton is the owner of a legendary vault that no one has ever been able to open. Though he can’t be sure that the safe contains anything valuable, speculation is rampant among those who know of its existence. Will anyone ever be able...
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- Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting people’s heads open to steal bits of their brains. His wife is a former nurse who went mad alongside him. They are pursued across England and the continent by Mr. Daniel Rocke, codebreaker of the Foreign service: Miss Ann Lancaster, daughter of...
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- We were standing together in the small shabby bedroom of the boarding-house wherein I lived in Granville Gardens, facing the recreation ground close to Shepherd’s Bush Railway Station. The stifling July day was at an end, and the narrow room was lit by the soft hazy glow of the fast-fading London sunset. Through the open window came the shouts of children at play upon the „green” opposite, mingled...
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- Jacob’s Ladder begins: Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as the capable hands of the inimitable Mrs. Harris could make it. His coffee was hot and his eggs were perfectly boiled. Through the open windows stretched a little vista of the many rows of standard roses which...
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- A short but interesting detective story. Dick Martin plans for an early retirement from the police force seeking a quite life. His final job is to bring in Lew Pheeney, wanted in connection with a bank robbery. When Lew confesses to trying to open a dead man’s tomb, however, Martin has a mystery he must unravel. He races to find the connection between an attractive young librarian, a mad scientist...
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- Mr. Stratford Harlow, the colossus of British Finance, was a gentleman with no particular call to hurry. By every standard he was a member of the leisured classes, and to his opportunities for lingering, he added the desire of one who was pertinently curious. The most commonplace phenomena interested Mr. Harlow. He had all the requisite qualities of an observer; his enjoyment was without the handicap...
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- W sportowym blasku kryje się mroczny cień zbrodni… Morderstwo to nie gra, gdy sen o zwycięstwie zamienia się w koszmar. W rozwikłaniu kryminalnej zagadki Myronowi Bolitarowi pomaga Win - bogaty socjopata, awanturnik i wierny przyjaciel. Mecz US Open zostaje brutalnie przerwany przez odgłos wystrzału. Ofiarą okazuje się dwudziestoczteroletnia tenisistka Valerie Simpson. Sześć lat wcześniej...
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- W przeszłości miasto Salem nie cieszyło się dobrą sławą. Miejsce to spowiły mrok i strach. Krąg gorliwych wyznawców szatana rósł w siłę, a oddane mu wiedźmy szerzyły diabelski kult, plugawiąc wszelkie świętości. Łowcy czarownic srodze je osądzili i ukarali. I choć na stosie spłonęła ich ludzka powłoka, zło przetrwało i czekało uśpione... Aż do dziś! Tajemnicza płyta zespołu o nazwie Panowie odtworzona...
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- Golf, krew i niewyjaśnione zaginięcie. Chłopak z bogatych przedmieść znika w ciemnych zaułkach miasta. Za fasadami bogatych domów kryją się brudne sekrety. Myron Bolitar, agent sportowy, który zawsze gra va banque, wyrusza, by odnaleźć chłopca i rozwikłać tajemnicę. Kto mógł porwać nastoletniego syna Jacka Coldrena, znanego golfisty bliskiego zwycięstwa w turnieju U.S. Open? Agent sportowy...
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Wznowienie kultowego, pierwszego powojennego zbioru opowiadań weird fiction w Polsce. Wydanie zawiera dodatkowy tekst Ogród, nocne niebo. Oto nadchodzi wielki finał, wieńczący dzieło danse macabre, gdzie pośród szarpania i kotłowania rozpadają się ludzkie formy, zlewając się we wrzącą, broczącą krwią, poskręcaną kupę mięsa i żył. Łapiemy cuchnące czerwonym odorem powietrze, mokrzy od lepkiego, wstrętnego...Data dostępności:
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