Mary Helena Fortune is one of the first female authors who became famous for detectives. My Lodger is no exception. This work captivated readers with a tense plot, where the reader must think.
The narrative comes from a young doctor who is approached by a strange baron. Why does the house and everyone in it have to be completely white? Who are its inhabitants? Are they really crazy? Who ...
H. Bedford-Jones’ „D’Artagnan” is a sequel to the first Musketeer book of Alexandre Dumas. It continues the rollicking romantic romp through pre-revolutionary France by foll...
This novel is an amazing mixture of adventure, romance and political intrigue. Roosevelt’s most trusted spy must flee for his life by escaping into the European countryside.
This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1...
Fletcher’s understanding of human nature is evident in his writing, where his characters embody every facet of human existence in very well-written prose and dialogue. Mistress Spitfire is a ...
Four cowboys leaned over the barbed-wire fence that marked the dividing line between the Centipede Ranch and their own, gazing mournfully into a summer night that only distant southwestern countrie...
Powieść historyczna, będąca jednocześnie kryminałem, która opowiada o tajemniczej śmierci Imperii Cognati, niezwykłej kurtyzany, która sprowadziła do Rzymu ludzi takich jak Durer i Sa...
Spisane w konwencji tzw. zwoju rodzinnego i ukończone w 1841 roku wspomnienia Jaakowa Ha-Lewiego Lewina stanowią zapis wydarzeń, których autor był uczestnikiem podczas trwania powstania list...
Oczami dziecka to spisane na początku lat dwudziestych XX wieku wspomnienia poetki jidysz Malki Lee (1904?1976). Opowiadają one historię pierwszej wojny światowej przez pryzmat doświadczenia kobiec...
Pierwszy tom swoich wspomnień Perec – jeden z najsłynniejszych pisarzy jidysz, opublikował w 1913 roku pt. Majne zichrojnes [Moje wspomnienia]. Z powodu śmierci nie zdążył napisać kolejnych t...
Promieniowanie i radioaktywność kojarzy się przede wszystkim z bombami atomowymi zrzuconymi na Hiroszimę i Nagasaki, katastrofami w Czarnobylu i Fukushimie, strachem przed zachorowaniem na raka, a ...
Father often asked Kirk Anthony to do a real job. But Anthony, despite almost idolizing his strong, successful father, just can’t stop having a good time with his father’s money. He goe...
The final series about the strange and mysterious gem „The Passing of the Sphinx Emerald” constitutes a veritable Outline of History – or perhaps „Highlights of History&rdqu...
Steel clashed and bugles blared in the Antioch of December 362... and the strange Sphinx Emerald flashed again to potent life. Meet seventh installment of the amazing cycle of tales from a prolific...
The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands – to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions... Readers are treated to authentic histori...
Lorelei Knight’s parents want to get rich on her beauty. They send her to New York to be on a „girl show”. Bob Wharton, the dissolute son of a millionaire, falls in love with a gi...
The book, written in the 19 c. by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle....
Dick Donovan’s detective was considered a great ‘rival’ to Holmes. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. „The Adventures of Tyler ...
The narrator is a widower with two daughters, living happily into a rather troubling middle age and pushing away his daughter’s suitors so that his daughters would live with him a little long...