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James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. Smith’s literary debut was „Biltmore Oswald” (1918), the comic fictional diary of a hapless naval recruit, drawing heavily on wartime experience with...

„Bomba, the Jungle Boy on Terror Trail”? 6 in the Bomba series, by Roy Rockwood, was published in 1928. Bomba is making the treacherous journey back to his home with the Araos tribe. On the way, he encounters poisonous plant life and battles snakes and alligators. Surviving these natural enemies, he is attacked by cannibals but is rescued by Spaniards in a plane. Bomba’s luck doesn’t hold out, though;...

The hapless Heine is trying very hard to be a good German spy in Great Britain during WWI but luck and circumstance are not with him. Every adventure turns out poorly for our dear spy. This collection of stories of Edgar Wallace about Heine was published during WWI and should be taken lightly by readers – some may see it as a piece of anti-German propaganda, with Heine as a bit of a hopeless idiot....

W hotelowym lobby w Hongkongu lekarz z gorączką spotyka nieznajomego. W Nowym Jorku dziennikarz uczestniczy w branżowym spotkaniu pełnym spanikowanych bankowców. W Australii turystka udostępnia w sieci film, który uczyni ją sławną – i którego będzie bardzo żałować… Wybuchające epidemie – chorób, newsów i idei – rozprzestrzeniają się teraz szybciej niż kiedykolwiek. Co nimi rządzi, według jakich zasad...