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A story of two sisters and their trials and tribulations in love and life. This is a fascinating work and it eventually became a Hollywood movie starring Bette Davies.
There may be a grandson of the Sultan living. If so, Hambledon must find him. So begins Tommy Hambledon's craziest adventure...
It started the night a safe-cracker was shot on a Stepney street by a soft-spoken killer. Through an ingenious piece of detection - and with the help of his underworld friends - Tommy Hambledon succeeded in identifying the killer as the notorious Louis Magid. The...
This one's about murder and kidnapping and smuggling diamonds and turning lead into gold...
A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como and disappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence in the person of none other than the intrepid Tommy...
Tommy's Swedish vacation turns into a hunt for Nazis who still dream of restoring the third Reich.
British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a...
Crime Club classic with Scotland Yard on one side, a sinister gang on the other and the novel's Tommy Hambledon right in the middle in this, his first post-war adventure.
A vivid and dramatic story of a great conspiracy and a great love, set in 15th century France. King Charles VII, Agnes Sorel, his mistress, and Jaques Coeur, the king’s moneyman, and history’s first great merchant prince.
A story of romance and adventure set in Italy in the Middle ages. Noblemen plot amongst themselves to remove the counselors of their young Duchess and to induce her to marry one of their number. By a trick, one of her friends escapes death and plans a method of...
It is a fairy tale with every fairy but one grown up. For Lisbeth is no less a fairy because her hair is up, nor is Dick any the less a fairy prince because he is in trousers, nor the Imp any less Puck because he is in the disguise of the dearest, naughtiest, most...
The action takes place in Paris, London, and Sussex. This is a story of two feuds, in both of which Sir John is a principal figure. Throughout the book the gay, high-spirited and seemingly unmanageable Lady Herminia Barrasdaile carries on a vendetta against the man she...
A sweet, light-hearted, romantic comedy. The characters come alive with dialogue and crisp, minimal description. Betty, with the droop of her lashes and the stamp of her little foot, is one of the most likable—no, admirable—female characters you will ever come across in...
Historical novel, set in the Napoleonic era. Sam Felton, a plain-spoken sailor, discovers that he has succeeded to the title (and fortune) of Earl of Wrybourne. Then things get complicated...
In this romance the author tells of the joys and tribulations of parenthood and gives an ideal picture of the perfect human partnership of Charmian and Sir Peter Vibart, the heroes also of that greatest of all romances The Broad Highway. Their son Richard's adventures...
Martin Conisby, embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda, escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England, determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon, who was the cause of his father's death and his own ill-treatment....
The sequel to Farnol's 1946 novel Heritage Perilous.The new Earl of Wrybourne is living in peace with his beautiful wife and their recently born son. Who could wish him ill? His old enemy Sir Robert Chalmers, perhaps, but he has vanished from the scene. Or has he?...
A Collection of intriguing Short Stories of London and romance including: The London Stone The Sanctuary - Westminster Abbey The River Thames London Bridge The White Tower St. Bartholemews Smithfield Tothill (Tuttle) Fields White Friars The Banqueting Hall at...
Jasper Shrig is a sort of a nineteenth century Sherlock Holmes. Thrilling events follow each other with the starling rapidity of machine gun fire on a still night. The hero’s villainous Uncle is found with a dagger run through his throat. Shrig is almost strangled to...
In the darkness Sir Richard Guyfford, aware that some one is breaking into his house, stands rigid and alert. A leap, a faint cry followed by a fall, and light of a candle reveals his victim -- Lady Helen D'Arcy, reigning beauty and toast. She had come to steal a letter...
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