Elderly John Marbury, who came from faraway Australia the day before, was killed in central London. But who could wish death to a man who had not been in England for a long time? Investigation inve...
„The Royal Life Guard – A Historical Romance of the Suppression of the French Monarchy” is a historical romance of the suppression of the French monarchy. France had been changed ...
„The Way of an Eagle” novel (1919) opens in India, as scapegrace Nick Ratcliffe rescues Muriel, the general’s daughter, from dire peril. Between starvation and attack, death is al...
„Deadwood Dick’s Doom or Calamity Jane’s Last Adventure” is a fast-paced thriller by popular dime-novelist Edward Lytton Wheeler who wrote 33 „Deadwood Dick” nov...
The Lieutenant and Others – a collection of stories written during the First World War. A novella written and published at the height of the war in 1916 by a soldier is approaching a real dea...
King of the Khyber Rifles can definitely be called Mandi’s most famous work. A famous novel in India and in other regions outside of it, he was very successful and two films were filmed on th...
A series of enthralling mysteries written by Edgar Wallace. They feature the enigmatic figure of Mr. J.G. Reeder who works for the Public Prosecutor’s office and has the mind of a criminal. A...
There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot redress. The three friends, Pioccart, Manfred and Gonsalez, may be enjoying the exotic, Spanish city of Co...
Mr. Hardross Courage is a wealthy young Englishman whose life has been carefree and uneventful. He plays cricket for his county, he attends to the management of his estates, he serves as a local ma...
A Front of Brass is more of a detective story. The author invites readers to be real detectives. Hubert Grant bought a manor near the cliff and married Mary. It seems strange that Grant’s par...
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), known as the „Mother of the Detective Novel”, is one of the first American writers of detective fiction. She was recognized for realism and well plotte...
Running an airship took nerve, steadiness of purpose, a definite, concrete way of looking at things. Dave knew in his own mind that the Drifter was each hour speeding farther and farther away from ...
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa early in his career. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. Hi...
This is another great novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, an...
„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocatio...
The title of the story is misleading. There is no court, and no one is convicted, although the eminent specialist of Harley Street who essays the role of villain richly deserves to be. We meet some...
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 st...
Haggard was a great popularizer of the story about the „lost world”, and his „The Ghost Kings” are an interesting addition to dozens of others in the author’s pantheon...
This is the story of the border war during the Revolution and immediately after it. The hero is captured during the Indian raid. He respects his Indian friends even in those bitter years when he fi...
Forged notes have started to appear everywhere. Mr. Cheyne Wells of Harley Street has been given one. So has Porter. Peter Clifton is rich, but no one is quite certain how he acquired his money &nd...