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''Boon Island'' by Kenneth Roberts is a historical novel detailing the harrowing true story of the 1710 shipwreck of the Nottingham Galley off the coast of Maine. It centers on the survivors' desperate battle against starvation, sub-freezing temperatures, and severe...
''The Saracen Blade'' is the very memorable historical adventure novel by Frank Yerby that follows the life of Pietro di Donati, a 13th-century Sicilian peasant. Pietro rises from his humble origins to become a powerful nobleman. The story begins with Pietro seeking...
''Situation Vacant'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a 1946 detective novel about a series of mysterious deaths in an English village, revolving around two secretaries to the same woman at a manor house, with Inspector Arnold and sleuth Desmond Merrion uncovering a...
This fabulous comedy of manners is about the residents of Durham Square, which is a respectable if not totally fashionable London address. We see their snobberies, their quarrels and reconciliations, and we discover that one of the residents of the square has been...
When this book was first published in 1940, one critic claimed that "adjectives pale before the superb drive and force of Oliver Wiswell." In the novel Kenneth Roberts portrays a very different side to the story of the American Revolution, that of the loyalists...
''Northwest Passage'' is widely considered a benchmark of the historical adventure genre for its meticulous research and vivid portrayal of colonial America during the mid-18th century. The story is told through the eyes of Langdon Towne, a young artist and Harvard...
''The Foxes of Harrow'' chronicles the rise and fall of Stephen Fox, an audacious Irish gambler in mid-19th-century Louisiana. Arriving in New Orleans in 1825 with almost nothing, Fox uses his skills as a card shark to amass a fortune, eventually building Harrow, one of...
''Brother Man'' (1954) by Jamaican author Roger Mais (died 1955), is the author's best-known work. Set in "The Lane" in the slums, the story follows John Power, known as Brother Man. An honest cobbler and healer, John Power lives a peaceful life according to his...
''The Chief Witness'' is a classic Golden Age British mystery by Herbert Adams, originally published in 1940. It features the amateur detective and golf enthusiast Roger Bennion. The story begins with a bizarre and macabre coincidence: two brothers—one a successful...
''The Prime Minister's Pencil'' (1933) by Cecil Waye (John Rhode/Miles Burton) as always features private investigator Christopher Perrin. Perrin investigates the disappearance of Cuthbert Solway, a politician's secretary who is later found dead, leading to a complex...
''The End of the Chase'' (1932) by Cecil Waye ((John Rhode/Miles Burton) ) follows private investigator Christopher Perrin as he tracks a thief across Europe, uncovering an international criminal network involving a forger and a countess, leading to a high-stakes,...
''Damon Runyon Favorites'' is a classic major collection of colorful short stories and novellas by Damon Runyon that vividly portrays the underworld of New York during the Prohibition era. It focuses on gangsters, gamblers, touts, and Broadway characters, featuring...
''Company K'' (1933) by William March (died 1954) is an anti-war novel composed of 113 brief, first-person vignettes told by different Marines in a single company during World War I. Based on the author's own combat experiences, it explores the brutal reality, moral...
''Murder at Monk's Barn'' (1931) by Cecil Waye (John Rhode/Miles Burton) is a classic Golden Age mystery featuring detectives Christopher and Vivienne Perrins. They investigate the shooting of businessman Gilbert Wynter, killed through locked curtains in his home,...
''Job: The Story of a Simple Man'' (1930) by Joseph Roth is a modern retelling of the biblical Book of Job, following Mendel Singer, a pious, ordinary Jewish teacher, whose life in Tsarist Russia and later New York is severely tried by immense personal losses, a sick...
''The Figure of Eight'' (1931) by Cecil Waye (John Rhode/Miles Burton) is a 1930s thriller featuring private investigator Christopher Perrin. It focuses on international intrigue, starting with the mysterious, non-violent death of a woman on a London bus, which leads to...
Flowering Wilderness (1932) by John Galsworthy is a novel about a young woman named Dinny Cherrell who falls in love with Wilfred Desert, a poet returning from the East with a disgraceful secret. Wilfred is accused of turning Muslim under threats of violence, violating...
Written in the 30’s, this story provides intricate details about the adventures of the poor scrapping men trying to find work in Mexico. It is about Spanish and American imperialism, the power of capitalism, the despoiling of the environment (yet another oil boom),...
Mary Butt died prematurely in 1937 after an unsuccessful surgery at age 46 but is regarded as a modernist master for her novels “Armed with Madness'' (1928) and “Death of Felicity Taverner” (1932), both of which are now in the public domain and somewhat neglected but...
A Peking love story first published in 1935, ''The Maker of Heavenly Trousers'' tells the story of an unnamed foreign bachelor who lives in a courtyard dwelling alone but for the Five Virtues, the nickname for a family of mischievous Chinese servants who run his...
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