The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a wom...
These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end that’s what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Colli...
Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of ...
Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of ...
This is the story of an innocent beautiful young woman from the poorest family, who throughout her life is associated with men of high social status. How her family members react to such a connecti...
This is a typical English Victorian novel. The action takes place in a women’s closed boarding house, the main characters are girls, one of them will turn out to be of aristocratic origin, th...
This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and l...
The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritz’s father is opposed to his son’s marriage and believes that Mina and her mother...
A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeeper’s daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is s...
The book shows the journey from the American Dream to the American Tragedy. And this path is shown through the life of an ordinary young man, Clyde Griffiths. Clyde, a young man from a poor large f...
„When Night Falls” is a complex novel. Six fascinating stories, full of mystery and tension, are collected by the author into a single picture, worthy of taking its place among the most...
The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main character...
This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank...
Zabawa w detektywa może być wyjątkowo inspirująca, zwłaszcza jeśli przy stole siedzi panna Jane Marple. Oprócz niej wśród uczestników gry są: lekarz, prawnik, malarka, pisarz i...
Kiedy grecki milioner Arystydes Leonides zostaje otruty, podejrzenia padają na Brendę, młodą wdowę. Policja wszczyna śledztwo, ale wyprzedza ją o krok Josephine, wnuczka ofiary. Ta wścibska nastola...
Stara pani Boynton nie należy do czułych matek i gromadkę swoich dzieci, czy może raczej podwładnych, trzyma żelazną ręką. Gdy pewnego dnia kobieta ginie, niewiele osób okazuje jej bliskim w...
Na polu golfowym znaleziono zwłoki bogatego biznesmena. Herkules Poirot czuje się odpowiedzialny, ponieważ został wezwany na pomoc, której zmarły nie doczekał. Agatha Christie prowad...
Przypadek chodzi po ludziach, czyli kolejna komedia kryminalna z genialnym detektywem Jackiem Przypadkiem w roli głównej!Jacek Przypadek ma chwilowy kryzys, bo okazało się, że nie wszy...
This collection dates from 1893 and includes 13 short stories written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. Many of Muddock’s mystery stories f...
„A Detective’s Triumphs” (1891) by Dick Donovan – eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduc...