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The Kidnapping of Madame Storey – ebook
Hulbert Footner
Love humor writing? Can’t get enough of classic adventure tales? First published in 1902, „The Adventures of Gerard” are the autobiographical reminiscences of an old fictional brigadier soldier who served under Napoleon. He never hesitates to embellish his own bravado, importance, and attractiveness to the ladies, to such an extent that it can’t help but be humorous. Etienne Gerard, a hussar of the...Data dostępności:
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Easy To Kill – ebook
Hulbert Footner
The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the genre, selling thousands of copies on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert Hawke is a man on the run. After returning from business in London, he...Data dostępności:
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The Eyes of Max Carrados – ebook
Ernest Bramah
Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. „The Eyes of Max Carrados” opens with a somewhat defensive essay which chronicles astonishing feats of the blind. Carrados himself outdoes...Data dostępności:
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The Dunwich Horror – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. The story started of well and gave us a spooky small village setting with the odd family of a Grandfather, deformed Albino mother and inhuman grandson and the strange events surrounding his birth...Data dostępności:
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The Thing on the Doorstep – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
The Thing on the Doorstep is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. Daniel Upton, the story’s narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer. He begins by describing Derby’s life and career. Daniel Upton’s relationship with his friend Edward Derby...Data dostępności:
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The Innocence of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detectives, right after Sherlock Holmes. In some ways, Father Brown was a continuation of what Chesterton wrote in his classic Orthodoxy.The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery...Data dostępności:
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The Maracot Deep – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
This is one of the works of fiction published during Doyle’s life. Published in 1929, only a year before the author’s death, this short novel amply demonstrates that Doyle still retained all his great abilities as a spinner of riveting yarns, even in his twilight years. The book concerns Maracot’s exploration of the world beneath the sea. Maracot and his companions find themselves stranded on the ocean...Data dostępności:
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The Incredulity of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton „moral landscape” -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong....Data dostępności:
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His Last Bow – ebook
Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrated edition with almost 40 original illustrations by Alfred Gilbert, Gilbert Holiday, Sidney Paget, Walter Paget and Arthur Twidle. „His Last Bow” (also known as „The Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes”) contains eight stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, „His Last Bow. An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes”. Edition contains a brief preface, by „John H. Watson, M.D.”,...Data dostępności:
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Pod powierzchnią – ebook
Daisy Johnson
Genialna powieść najmłodszej finalistki w historii Nagrody Bookera! Minęło szesnaście lat, od kiedy Gretel ostatni raz widziała matkę. To połowa jej życia; dość, aby zapomnieć spędzone nad kanałem dzieciństwo. Lecz niespodziewany telefon sprawia, że ich drogi znów się przecinają. Wspomnienia niespokojnych lat powracają ze zdwojoną siłą: sekretny język, który wynalazły z matką; dziwny chłopiec,...Data dostępności:
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