Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story „The Million Dollar Suitcase” (1922). Jeremiah „Jerry” Boyne, head of the Bankers’ Security Agency is hired to inve...
This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. „The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung” is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai L...
Australia-born writer Guy Newell Boothby burst onto the literary scene with a series of best-selling adventure action movies, but The Mystery of Clasped Hands discovers that Boothby is trying to tr...
This is the story of a Cambridge student, Olva Dune, who commits murder. Ironically, the moment he commits his crime, he feels the presence of God. Perhaps a hundred years ago, March Square could b...
This action-packed novel is a warning. Its main character, the young Frenchman Benedict Thurpin – the newly-minted d’Artagnan, daredevil, wit, Breter, warrior, painter, palmist, hunter,...
It was almost night when this melancholy little party appeared at the main station. Dick, with great foresight, sent the food cart several miles to meet them, so my mother was relieved of pain when...
Ewen Stranway answers an advertisement to meet an old gentleman Henri Raoul Charlebois who has told him that he is in debt. At his flat, he removes from his safe a large book bound in red morocco i...
The story of the liberation of a Russian prisoner from an island in eastern Siberia. A young English millionaire thinks he is saving the father of his beloved, famous nihilist; but when a person is...
All the action takes place within 36 hours, and during this time, Van Dyne collected many action games, red herring, suspects, humor and lessons from Egyptian history. He is joined by his friend Jo...
This is a storybook. Boycott, the first story, the simplest school story. A very popular boy is expelled from school, and his less popular friend is ostracized by his peers, so he does not know why...
An amusing thriller by A.G. Macdonell, one of six mysteries he wrote under the pseudonym Neil Gordon. Macdonell is best known for the gently satirical novel „England, Their England”, wh...
Working name of UK author Ernest Brammah Smith (1868-1942) for all his writing; he is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormou...
No writer of „cowboy” stories can equal B. M. Bower. Ever since „Chip” of immortal memory Bower has been easily first among the writers who stage their dramas in the wide sp...
The small, plump and shy Dr. Doolittle is a wonderful doctor whose love of animals deprives his patients. But after his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak in animal languages, the Doctor becomes...
This is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. His central intrigue revolves around two boys – one born into slavery, with 1/32 black pedigree; on the other, white, born to be the master of t...
Dear Reader,"Tree and Bird" is a story about friendship and love. For a tiny bird called the Feather makes a nest in the crown of the eponymous tree, unusual and lonely, and g...
Tommy learns how to communicate with animals, thanks to Doctor Dolittle. Tommy finds himself with a kind doctor on a thrilling and dangerous journey to find Long Arrow, the native American and son ...
The novel is about six friends who have known since childhood: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susie, Ron and Ginny. After a few key episodes, their life appears from early childhood to the last days. As ...
Discover the timeless wisdom of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" a captivating journey into the heart of economics that promises to enlighten and empower readers of all backgrounds. W...
The action of the novel „Years”, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years – from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian tr...