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Blackmail and its consequences play a big part in E.C.R. Lorac's 1939 masterpiece of understatement and style. Many of Edith Caroline Rivett's (who wrote as "E.C.R. Lorac") mystery novels are very hard to find and this is one of them. It's one of Inspector Macdonald's...
Vivian Lestrange, a successful but reclusive crime fiction writer, is reported missing by his secretary Eleanor Clarke. Soon afterwards Lestrange's housekeeper also disappears. But is Clarke herself Lestrange, trying to drum up publicity? Inspectors Bond of the local...
“The Odyssey” is the tale of Odysseus’ (Ulysses’ in Latin) 10-year journey from the burned ramparts of Troy to his home in Ithaca. It involved many perils and delays, and ended with his violent confrontation with the suitors of his wife, Penelope. There have been many...
Historical fiction. Based on the life of Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian physician known for his research into puerperal fever and his advances in medical hygiene. In the novel he struggles to prove to his fellow doctors that if they would only wash their hands,...
"The Kiss to the Leper" by Francois Mauriac is a novel about a French priest named Charles who has become disillusioned with his life and the Church. After being sent to a leprosarium to care for leprosy patients, Charles gradually begins to see the beauty and dignity...
First published in 1951 in the US, now public domain. Dan England and the Noonday Devil is a portrait of pedestrian holiness, not an interior biography of conversion but the external observation of a man who transformed others people’s lives through his charity and...
Judy, who has grown up in Canada, is sent to an English boarding-school where she joins the Guide unit.
Anxious for adventure and still longing for the sea, Harald, the young Viking hero of VIKING'S DAWN, is readily persuaded to join Prince Arkil of Denmark in a quest lor the treasure guarded by the Irish giant, Grummoch. Thus begins a strange and exciting series of...
Beorn, an Icelandic boy is saved from death by a ferocious baresark, Starkad, and his fellow Vikings. The boy shares their dangerous life, and Starkad becomes for him a substitute for the father he has lost.
Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth...that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and...
Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one that graphically portrays a metaphysical journey filled with marvels...
Nine-year-old Susannah Winston is sent to stay with her Uncle Dennis, an officer with the Mounties - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police - in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has many adventures on the prairie. Made into the blockbuster Hollywood film starring Shirley Temple!
Romance between a middle-aged widow and a younger man scandalizes 1920s London society in this classic novel by the author of The Enchanted April. Although they thoroughly enjoy watching performances of The Immortal Hour, it is no longer the sole reason Catherine...
Since her mother’s death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that her father has married again, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life....
In The Building of Jalna, Adeline lay thinking about the journey. They were leaving London. When might she see it again? Perhaps never, with all the dangers of travel. What would happen to her and Philip in the New World? What strange distant place lay waiting for...
Prepare to be enthralled by the captivating tales of Paul Campenhaye, a brilliant specialist in criminology. Campenhaye's wit, charm, and unparalleled deductive skills shine as he outwits even the cleverest of adversaries. From the theft of priceless jewels to the hunt...
A lonely countryside under heavy white drifts of snow, and a even lonelier young artist lost in it - then suddenly, blacker than the night, a queer turreted old house appears before his eyes, a door opens and the prettiest girl the artist has ever seen asks him to come...
Martin Somers, surgeon and adjutant of women in O’Cahan’s Irish regiment fighting for Montrose, is a better swordsman than surgeon. In his adventurous wardship of this ill-fated company of women,Martin finds excitement and danger in war-torn Scotland from his first...
Rudolph Fisher’s outstanding debut novel The Walls of Jericho, published in 1928, explores race and class issues during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance through the lens of Black lawyer Fred Merrit, who buys a home in a white neighborhood bordering Harlem. What progresses...
First published in the US in 1930 by Alfred A. Knopf: New York, public domain. A famous American book collector is found dead, at the bottom of Herlesdem Scar on the lonley Yorshire moors, his body a mass of battered flesh. Was it just a terrible accident, as all...
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