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Set in Austria, Spencer witnesses the burial of a liveried servant, murdered after an attempt to seize some gold in transit. Spencer identifies Lady Helena as the owner of the livery, warns her of murder, becomes her lover. Discovers the target is gold bullion in the...
Henry Marchmont is a prosperous and respectable solicitor with an uneventful past. However, one night he is found murdered in his London home. The scanty clues seem to poin to a mysterious Mr Landale, who has met the solicitor on the very day of his death, for the first...
This book is a sequel to the earlier novel, The Proper Place, concerning an aristocratic Scottish family, the Rutherfurds, forced by circumstances to sell the family estate. Lady Jane has lost both of her sons in the recent Great War; the subsequent death of her husband...
A tale of romance and adventure, sweeping through the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire to the golden land of Far Cathay. The story of how Walter followed Maryam to the fabled Kinsai, lost her and found her again, makes a superb and stirring romance, filled with the...
Samurai! is the personal story of Japan's greatest fighter pilot!
When Detective-Sergeant Charlesworth of Scotland Yard was sent down to Aldersyke Manor to investigate the sudden mysterious death of Sir Charles Stanmore, he determined that, no matter what happened, if it proved to be a case of murder, he would find the culprit; for on...
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 investigator Detective Rasbery turns for help to his friend, crime reporter...
This crime puzzle features Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is a “London Scot” and an avowed bachelor with a love for walking in the English countryside. But what will he make of the body found dead in a cave?
Charmian, Lady Vibart is a novel dealing with many of the characters made famous by Jeffery Farnol in "The Broad Highway," and the action takes place twenty years after the final episode of that book.Charmian, now in the early forties, is still a great beauty and not...
British secret agent Tommy Hambleton is believed to have been killed in an explosion, but will spies inside wartime Germany find out that a famous explosives expert cooperating with the Nazis is really Hambleton?... He is impersonating a scientist who has developed a...
Full of humorous stories about gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, and their women inhabiting New York's Broadway. A world of speakeasies and dancing girls where a gambler or bootlegger is perfectly normal and respectable in every way. Those familiar with "Guys and Dolls"...
Today, H. G. Wells is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as “The Time Machine” (1895), “The Invisible Man” (1897), and “The War of the Worlds” (1898). Here, Wells recounts his childhood, school days, struggle...
This suspense murder mystery is set in the Albert Hall - on the night of nights, the Chelsea Arts Ball on New Year’s Eve. In this setting of dancing and gaiety and bright lights, this story introduces among the light-hearted assembly of guests various characters in...
A talented amateur sleuth takes on a locked-room murder in this golden age whodunit set in a gloomy, forbidding castle. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor was found in the castle stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room was locked from within and the windows...
Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence about Mexico where he travelled several times and was fascinated by what he observed there of the exotic people and their way of life. It displays Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the...
A collection of humorous essays, accompanied by the author's own bizarre drawings, presenting Thurber's unremitting retort to the multitude of "self-help" books which were widespread in the 1930s and whose successors are still with us today.
Introducing the gallant hero of "Beat to Quarters," Captain Hornblower, in the first of a series of grand adventures. For his first command after escaping from France, Hornblower is given charge of the royal yacht - and he soon requires all his skill and instinct to...
Norah is now 14. She, Jim and Wally do their best to put up with Cecil, the 19-year-old cousin from town who has come to stay at Billabong for the Christmas holidays and tries to show off to his Bush relatives with his disdainful city airs. But the results are...
Small hostilities were growing; vague jealousies were gaining strength; and far off, wasn't there a nebulous hint of approaching tragedy in the air? Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists,...
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