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''Island in the Sky'' is the classic 1944 aviation adventure novel written by commercial pilot and author Ernest K. Gann. The plot centers on a World War II transport pilot named Dooley who is forced to make an emergency crash landing in the uncharted, frozen wilderness...
''Mister Roberts'' is the classic 1946 war novel by American author Thomas Heggen, inspired by his own wartime experiences serving in the South Pacific theater. The book provides a uniquely comedic yet poignant look at military life behind the front lines, focusing...
''Harm's Way'' is the bestselling 1962 military novel written by James Bassett, a decorated World War II Navy captain who drew heavily on his personal experiences as a public relations officer for Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. The story revolves around...
The narrative framework takes place over a single day—July 4, 1892—in the fictional town of Waycross, Indiana. As 53-year-old small-town teacher and poet John Wickliff Shawnessy participates in Independence Day celebrations and reunites with childhood rivals, he...
''Army of Shadows'' (L'Armée des ombres) is a gripping, partially fictionalized account of the French Resistance during World War II, written in 1943 by Joseph Kessel. Kessel, a member of the Resistance himself, created a bleak, hyper-realistic tribute to the ordinary...
''Prince of Foxes'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the popular historical adventure novel about Andrea Orsini, a peasant masquerading as a nobleman who serves as a secret agent for the ruthless Cesare Borgia in Renaissance Italy. The story details Orsini's journey from a...
''Captain from Castile'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the best-selling historical adventure novel that follows Pedro de Vargas, a young Spanish nobleman who flees the Spanish Inquisition and joins Hernán Cortés on his expedition to conquer the Aztecs in Mexico. Set in the...
''Unwanted Corpse'' involves Merrion working alongside Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold to solve a crime involving a body. The plot sets off with a sudden, mysterious death in the English countryside, leaving the local authorities with a literal "unwanted corpse" that...
Something to Hide (1953) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a classic British mystery novel featuring his long-running investigators, Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold. The story revolves around a complex, methodical investigation into a murder, involving clues found in...
Ben Ames Williams' most successful and popular novel was ''Leave Her to Heaven,'' published in 1944. It was a massive bestseller that was later adapted into a classic 1945 film noir of the same name. A psychological thriller, the story follows Ellen Berent, a socialite...
''The Death That Lurks Unseen'' is Fletcher's early masterpiece in the mystery and crime fiction genre. At this stage in his career, Fletcher was blending his journalistic precision with a flair for atmospheric, psychological narrative, featuring enigmatic protagonists...
Richard Goulbourn, a humble clerk, comes into a fortune that enables him to start courting the beautiful and rich Moira. He and his sister move into the house next to the black house in Harley Street where Moira lives with her uncle, Dr. van Mildert, her uncle's...
''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...
While the title might sound unusual to modern ears, in the context of the 1940s, "period stuff" referred to stories about historical or bygone eras—the "interwar" and early WWII periods in which Yates specialized. The stories here were written around 1939 and published...
''Shoal Water'' (1940) is a thriller by British author Dornford Yates and belongs to the author's collection of "adventure thrillers," often categorized alongside the Chandos series, though it features a different primary narrator. The story is narrated by Jeremy...
''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...
''The Deepening Stream,'' published in 1930, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Dorothy Canfield Fisher widely regarded as her masterpiece and a significant, though often overlooked, work of World War I literature. The story follows the life of Penelope "Matey"...
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