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Louis de Wohl's ''Saint Helena and the True Cross'' tells the thrilling, faith-filled story of St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, focusing on her determined pilgrimage to Jerusalem in her old age to discover the actual Cross of Christ, overcoming obstacles with...
At the heart of this story is the eponymous man with the squeaky voice, a mysterious figure who appears at a small town, seemingly out of thin air. His peculiar voice and enigmatic presence arouse suspicion among the townspeople, especially when a series of strange...
When Broadall the merchant banker fails to appear at his office in Cumberland Court, his confidential clerk calls on Philip Tolefree to investigate the disappearance with the minimum of publicity. Breaking into Broadall's London residence, Tolefree finds that there is a...
''Lay Siege to Heaven'' by Louis de Wohl is a historical novel that tells the vibrant life story of St. Catherine of Siena (14th century), focusing on her mystical experiences, refusal of marriage, intense devotion, and extraordinary influence in a turbulent era, as she...
''The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas'' is a classic 1935 mystery novel by R.A.J. Walling, featuring his recurring detective Philip Tolefree, about a baffling case where a corpse appears and disappears, challenging Tolefree to unravel hidden truths and impossible...
A corpse is found in the Jeu de Paume Court of the Lanivet Castle. The corpse was bound, gagged and almost strangled before it was shot. And the white glove on one hand was smeared with oily graphite. Tolefree was not surprised when he discovered the body was that of...
''Detective Ben'' by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a Golden Age mystery featuring Ben, a resourceful Cockney tramp who stumbles into crime, becoming an accidental detective who thwarts international conspiracies with humor and thrills, starting with finding a dead man on a...
''Set All Afire'' by Louis de Wohl is a historical novel about the life of Saint Francis Xavier, a pioneering Jesuit missionary to the Orient, detailing his journey from student days in Paris, his conversion, founding the Jesuits with St. Ignatius of Loyola, and his...
12,000 A.D. The Earth, after the atomic holocaust, had reverted to a strange kind of barbarism, where men could build space ships but could not communicate except by the most primitive means. Alien invaders had been sighted at the edge of the galaxy - but no one took...
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king ... and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous...
This panoramic novel of the last days of Christ ranges from the palaces of imperial Rome to the strife-torn hills of Judea-where the conflict of love and betrayal, revenge and redemption, reaches a mighty climax in the drama of the Crucifixion. Louis de Wohl considered...
Shortly after the end of the war, an American hospital ship rescues passengers and crew from a sinking Argentina-bound freighter. It's soon discovered that one of the group has been murdered, apparently by one of his own companions. After the second of the group is...
This book combines a world-famous Catholic novelist, Louis de Wohl, with one of the most thrilling and dramatic saints' lives in history, St. Joan of Arc. De Wohl uses his famed narrative skill to tell young people about the brave teenage French girl who had visions and...
The mystery centers on room 18, at St Ann's hospital, where over the course of around a week 3 people die in there. However the story begins with a very awkward dinner party.
Murderer's Trail by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a humorous 1930s crime novel featuring the resourceful tramp, Ben, who accidentally stows away on a ship with a real murderer, leading to a chaotic sea voyage filled with disappearances, comical mishaps, and thrilling...
Another of the popular historical novels by the distinguished de Wohl, telling the dramatic story of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, who played such a major role in the Christianization and civilization of post-Roman Europe in the sixth century. De Wohl...
The famous novelist de Wohl presents a stimulating historical novel about the great St. Thomas Aquinas, set against the violent background of the Italy of the Crusades. He tells the intriguing story of St. Thomas who defied his illustrious, prominent family's ambition...
The tenderly funny story of a modern girl's growing up. Cress Delahanty, growing up on a California ranch, might have been you at sixteen, your teenage daughter or niece, or the girl next door. You will watch her progress, as her parents did, with amusement and an...
The Unknown Conan Doyle. This volume includes thiry-three stories, ten of them never previously identified as the work of Doyle, which appeared in periodicals between 1879 and 1930. Beginning with his first story—The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)—to the posthumous...
A novel about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research zoologist and Bill Scanlan, an expert mechanic working with an iron works in Philadelphia who is in charge of...
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