Ebooki kryminalne i sensacyjne

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. W przeddzień meczu piłkarskiego zaginął prawy skrzydłowy Godfrey Staunton. Kapitan drużyny posądza drużynę przeciwnika o porwanie w celu wpłynięcia na wynik rozgrywek. Wuj sportowca lord Mount-James jest bogaty, lecz bardzo skąpy, zatem porwanie dla okupu można wykluczyć. Holmes i doktor Watson wyruszają do hotelu, w którym ostatni raz widziano Stauntona....

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Pełna humoru powieść przygodowa nosząca tytuł „Przygody brygadiera Gerarda” po raz pierwszy została opublikowana w roku 1902. Powieść ta opowiada o przygodach żołnierza, który służył pod Napoleonem, a który lubi się przechwalać i ubarwiać swoje dokonania, tak na...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Panna Violet Hunter odwiedza Holmesa z zapytaniem, czy powinna zaakceptować propozycję pracy guwernantki, opartą na dość dziwnych warunkach. Kuszącym aspektem jest suma wypłaty, początkowo oferowane jest jej 100 funtów rocznie, by potem wzrosnąć do 120, gdy panna Hunter odmawia obcięcia swoich długich włosów (jej poprzednia pensja wynosiła 48 funtów rocznie). J...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Do mieszkania detektywa na Baker Street przybywa zaaferowana młoda kobieta przedstawiająca się jako Mary Sutherland. Prosi o odnalezienie jej narzeczonego. Jest ubrana elegancko, choć w sposób zdradzający roztargnienie. Z jej chaotycznej opowieści Holmes wnioskuje, że padła ofiarą oszustwa, ze strony kogoś, kto wykorzystał jej łatwowierność i krótki wzrok. Dete...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Do sławnego detektywa Holmesa przybywa rudowłosy właściciel lombardu Jabez Wilson i opowiada dziwną historię. Dwa miesiące wcześniej jego pomocnik Spaulding zwrócił mu uwagę na ogłoszenie w gazecie: Związek Rudowłosych oferuje miejsce pracy dla mających prawdziwie rude włosy. Bankier udał się pod wskazany adres i zostawiwszy przedsiębiorstwo pod opieką pomocnik...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i francuskiej. Version bilingue: polonaise et française. ‘Zęby tygrysa’ to powieść kryminalna pióra Maurice Leblanca. Jest rok 1919, właśnie niedawno zakończyła się I wojna światowa, zwana wówczas ‘wielką wojną’, ale zaraz potem wybucha epidemia zabijającej tysiące i tysiące ofiar grypy hiszpanki. W tym to czasie umiera amerykański milioner Cosmo Morningtona, którego śmierć jest mocno podejrzana. Milioner prze...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Inne tytuły ‘Trzej panowie Garrideb’ i ‘Przygoda trzech Garridebów’. John Garrideb, radca prawny z Moorville w Kansas, poszukuje ludzi mających to samo nazwisko co on. Odnalezienie ich jest warunkiem odziedziczenia spadku pozostawionego przez innego posiadacza tego rzadkiego nazwiska. Odnaleziony został jeden, Natan Garrideb, zamieszkały w Anglii. Holmes odkryw...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Z elitarnej szkoły ucieka syn księcia Holdernesse. Wiadomo, że chłopiec tęskni za matką (książę i jego żona są w separacji), zaś w przeddzień ucieczki otrzymał od ojca list, który zabrał ze sobą. Równocześnie zaginął jeden z wykładowców nazwiskiem Heidegger. Sądząc po tym co znaleziono w ich pokojach, mały lord wyszedł całkowicie ubrany, natomiast nauczyciel ty...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Sherlock Holmes wybiera się z wizytą do swojego brata, Mycrofta. Towarzyszy mu Doktor Watson bardzo chcący poznać brata swego przyjaciela. W Klubie Diogenesa okazuje się, że znajomy Mycrofta ma do rozwiązania zagadkę dla słynnego detektywa. Otóż poprzedniego dnia zamieszkały w Londynie grecki tłumacz nazwiskiem Melas został porwany przez niejakiego Harolda Lati...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Podczas pobytu w jednym z miast uniwersyteckich (doktor Watson pomija nazwę) Sherlock Holmes proszony jest o wyjaśnienie, kto kopiował materiały egzaminacyjne w pokoju wykładowcy starożytnej greki. Egzamin ma być nazajutrz, zwycięzcy przysługuje stypendium. Profesor Soames woli rozwiązać sprawę bez wzywania policji. Podejrzanych jest trzech: prymus Gilchrist, ...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Holmes powiadamia Watsona, że lady Ewa Blackwell, narzeczona lorda Dovercourt, jest prześladowana przez Milvertona, zwanego królem szantażystów. Osobnik ten żąda od niej dużej sumy pieniędzy w zamian listy miłosne lady do jej kochanka grożąc, że w przeciwnym razie ujawni je, co doprowadzi do zerwania zaręczyn. Detektyw poproszony został o wynegocjowanie obniżen...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Do doktora Watsona zgłasza się pacjent z ciężką raną. Victor Hatherley, inżynier hydraulik, opowiada, że został zatrudniony przez pułkownika Lysandera Starka do ustalenia przyczyn awarii maszyny służącej rzekomo do prasowania w brykiety ziemi foluszniczej (stosowanej do folowania tkanin). W zamian za pracę nocną i zachowanie zlecenia w tajemnicy pułkownik zaofe...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. John Openshaw przybywa do Sherlocka Holmesa by wyjaśnić sprawę tajemniczego listu, jaki niedawno otrzymał. Wcześniej takie same listy otrzymali kolejno jego stryj Elias i ojciec Joseph Openshaw, którzy potem zginęli w dziwnych okolicznościach. Treść listu: Połóż papiery na zegarze słonecznym. K.K.K. Do listu dołączone jest pięć wyschniętych pestek pomarańczy. S...

Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Właściciel posiadłości Abbey Grange sir Eustachy Brackenstall ginie od uderzenia pogrzebaczem w głowę. Ciało znaleziono na podłodze w jadalni. Jego żona zeznaje, że nocą na dwór napadło trzech rabusiów, którzy ogłuszyli ją, zakneblowali i przywiązali do fotela. Prawdziwość słów potwierdzać zdaje się świeży krwiak na jej głowie, jednak Holmes, jak zwykle przywią...

Steve Harrison is a police detective. His cases are not always easy but for sure very, very weird. Robert E. Howard delivers an impressive tour de force of weird fiction awesomeness with „Steve Harrison, Detective of the Occult! „. Three short masterful stories in the Steve Harrison series from one of the greatest fantasy writers of the 20th century, the uncontained, uncontainable, Mr. Robert E. Howard: „Fangs of Gold” „Names in the Black Book” „Graveyard Rats”. Robert Ervi...

Three unsolved murders in a week are not so unusual--for River Street, grunted Steve Harrison, shifting his muscular bulk restlessly in his chair. His companion lighted a cigarette and Harrison observed that her slim hand was none too steady. She was exotically beautiful, a dark, supple figure, with the rich colors of purple Eastern nights and crimson dawns in her dusky hair and red lips. But in her dark eyes Harrison glimpsed the shadow of fear. Only once before had he see...

Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of „The Dark Barbarian,” the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.

Harrison is a brawny police detective who patrols the unquiet slums and dives of River Street, in an unnamed port city where the sun never shines. But REH’s stories were far-removed from the „mean streets” of Hammett’s and Raymond Chandler’s stories in Black Mask. Like Skull-Face they owe more to Sax Rohmer – and to REH’s own contemporary horror stories.

Wyróżniona prestiżową nagrodą dla najlepszej niemieckojęzycznej książki 2017 roku powieść Roberta Menasse Stolica to pasjonujący thriller polityczny, którego akcja toczy się w Brukseli, nieformalnej stolicy Unii Europejskiej. Austriacki autor wpuszcza nas niejako tylnymi drzwiami za kulisy tej skomplikowanej struktury i pozwala nam przyjrzeć się jej funkcjonowaniu. Bohaterami tej wielowątkowej opowieści o tym, co dzieje się w stolicy Belgii, w gabinetach europejskich urzędn...

Na jachcie ukraińskiego miliardera na francuskiej Riwierze dochodzi do niecodziennej transakcji: as światowego wywiadu, nieuchwytny Skorpion, w zamian za siedmiocyfrową kwotę zobowiązuje się udaremnić plan zamordowania kandydata na prezydenta Ukrainy. Rozpoczyna się wyścig z czasem - do wyborów zostało kilka dni. Rzucony w środek mroźnej, wschodnioeuropejskiej zimy Skorpion ma przeciw sobie kijowski Syndykat, chiński wywiad gospodarczy, SBU, SWR, a nawet CIA. Pościg za zamach...

This story continues the picturesque and interesting novels of Munda about Raj and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. If you like to read the British thriller of the early 1900s, you will surely be content with this novel. As you read it, you will understand how Mundi relates to the ancient world of harlots, Greeks, Romans and Cleopatra.

Matravers is „an Apostle of Aestheticism” with „fixed views of life, down to even it’s most trifling details.” „A poet, philosopher, and man of fashion” who has „no intimate friends.” He writes for the London papers and reviews. One evening he is taken to the theater by a friend to see a „Norwegian” play by Istein, which he savages in his review. However the actress who plays the lead, Berenice, is brilliant, and is the same woman with whom he has been exchanging coy glance...

Miss Mott quickly rose from the sound of knocking at her office door. She was engaged in the typical task of writing her advice to a young woman whose relationship with the acquisition had been pulled in, and she forgot the flight time. Her typist left, her ambassador was a boy and a shy but very nice young clerk who helped her in various activities. In other words, Miss Mott was alone on the top floor of the building, not far from Adelphi, and she did not wait for the subs...

A series of stories telling about the graceful crimes of a high class robber, a forger, a robber, a murderer. Stories in each of which are the same criminal, but under different names travels around the world, assuming new identities, avoiding militias and theft of fate. In one story, he helps the British intelligence in restoring critical documents from a foreign state. In another, he uses his skills to help a servant in trouble. In general, stories are of average quality,...

The Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano’s, it was an ordinary evening. Suddenly a man comes quickly to his desk, begins to eat his food and quietly transfers him a package under the table. This is how Paul Welmsley’s acquaintance with American adventurer Joseph Parker and his beautiful daughter Eve begin. Very interesting adventure story for easy reading.

Positively every one, with two unimportant exceptions, had called upon us. The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve miles away, with two anamic-looking daughters, who had gushed over our late roses and the cedar trees which shaded the lawn. The Holgates of Holgate Brand and Lady Naselton of Naselton had presented themselves on the same afternoon. Many others had come in their train, for what these very great people did the neighborhood was bound to endorse. ...

A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. The tiny kingdom of Theos is surrounded by Eastern European powers in this 1902 novel of politics, war, and romance. Russia and Turkey are plotting to take over the peaceful and rural country. A ...

In the sleepy little Devonshire town of Melhampton, the lives of the village stalwarts are revealed in this charming collection of tales by Oppenheim. Mr Tidd, the manager of the local bank branch, has invested his life and savings in the education of his daughter, but has dipped into the banks funds to „maintain appearances.” On the eve of quarterly bank examiners visit, he is confronted with guilt and exposure. In another tale, the town veterinarian is conflicted about hi...

The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, green-carpeted room. Around the bar, would-be customers were crowded three or four deep–many of them stalwart Canadians in khaki, making the most of their three days’ leave, and a thin sprinkling of men about town on their way to lunch in the grill-room adjoining. On the outskirts of the group was a somewhat incongruous figure, ...

In 1914, after seven years of service in the most famous room in the Grill Room in London, he dropped his very favorable position and went to France. In 1919, he came from a war with two crutches and many medals. He came to Paris and looked enviously at the funny scenes in the cafe, and thought that it was all over for him.

Aaron Rodd, who was a shy and awkward being, felt unexpectedly at his ease. He was even anxious for further conversation. He had a rather long, pale face, with deep-set eyes and rugged features. He was soberly, even sombrely dressed in dismal black. He had the air of a recluse. Perhaps that was why the young lady smiled upon him with such confidence.

Annabelle Pelissier, for his own reasons, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is his sister Hannah. Anna continues to cheat and bear the burden of her sister’s reputation, which in any case in Paris is a coquette. Infinite complications occur when both sisters return to London. This is one of the most intriguing stories of E. Philips Oppenheim.

At the corner corner in the restaurant of the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, four very excellent local unforgettable enjoy the noon banquet. Host director Robert was very energetic, with strong dark eyes. On the right side, Mr. Lyon, General Saint-Hilaire, sat with him with bright gray mustaches, who wore his impressive series of tapes with the air of the one who earned them.

The long boat train which had only a few minutes before started from Dover Pier Station on its way to Victoria came to an unexpected halt alongside the almost deserted platform of the Town Station. Habitual travellers, who knew the irregularity of such a proceeding, let down the windows and leaned out from their places. There was little to be seen, however, and nothing to be learnt from the various attendants. About a dozen station officials and a few other men who looked l...

Why not destroy someone’s memory in the hope that they will remember past lives. It turned out that this is a reverse scenario of Pygmalion. He fell in love with the girl and then destroyed her. I like the idea that a person is a common set of his experiences and experiences, but if they are erased, the person who is left will be completely different. Probably one of the best opengame stories.

Breslau, 1920. W mieście pojawia się sekta „mesjaszy”, którzy na ulicach wpadają w taneczny trans. Przewodzi im cyniczny dwulicowy guru Theodor Jauch – „tańczący Jan Chrzciciel”, który umiejętnie podsyca tlący się w mieście antysemityzm. Wkrótce on sam stanie się narzędziem w rękach spiskowców, którzy nie cofną się przed niczym, by osiągnąć swój cel.Eberhard Mock zmaga się z najstraszniejszym ze swoich demonów – demonem alkoholizmu. Każdego dnia walczy z samym sobą i próbuje ...

Najpoczytniejsza wiktoriańska powieść sensacyjna!Pierwsze wydanie Tajemnicy dorożki osiągnęło w Australii sprzedaż około 400 000 egzemplarzy. Jej autor był nieznanym dramaturgiem, ale za wszelką cenę pragnął osiągnąć sławę. Jednak nie mógł znaleźć żadnego dyrektora teatru w Melbourne, który zechciałby przyjąć, albo nawet przeczytać, napisaną przez niego sztukę. W końcu zdał sobie sprawę, że jego prawdziwym celem jest napisanie powieści. Postanowił więc napisać książkę op...

Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.

A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes and a tragic plot. This story tells of a wealthy Englishman who fell in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Krutha in the Mediterranean Sea. The very dark influence of the Catholic Church in this period will not prevent the victory of love and ha...

The state of the working class in the early 20th century caused significant changes in the left-wing political parties. The Liberal Party, which enjoyed the support of the working class, was threatened by the Party of Labor and trade unions that were in the forefront of the socialist and communist movement. In this novel, we are talking about a great deal of sympathy for the poorest workers who lost their jobs due to automation, recession and mass layoffs. The use of taxes ...

The marathon supports the radical form of general strikes to put the entire English industry on its knees and begin a long struggle for the redistribution of wealth. In many eloquent speeches, he claims the cause of poverty. Lord Foley, by contrast, believes that the enemies of England are waiting for mass actions aimed at the collapse of the country, during which they will invade and win. The marathon is obstructed from all sides by opposition forces that are trying to bri...

The novel tells about the struggle of a young man for wealth in colonial Africa and about his search for happiness in this country. Although he is trying to do everything right and honest, he is prevented by many opponents who bring only a great calamity. But despite all the difficulties, the story ends with a happy end.

In this romantic story tells about how in 1905 a young British tourist accidentally witnesses a strange meeting in Germany. Then, in Paris, he tells about it not in the company where it could be shared. His sister, who had to meet with him finds his brother’s baggage at the hotel, but he himself disappeared. The French police are pretending to be looking for him persistently, but then the sister himself disappears. A childhood friend who is in love with her is asking her fr...

The secretive financier and Press baron Warren Rand is working to bring about Global Peace and Disarmament, against the plotting of England, France, Germany, and Russia. The story expands to include the chief characters in Rands life: his security chief a British officer Tellesom who falls in love with Rand’s estranged daughter, the financier John Glynde and a large cast of evil Russian and German spies. His machinations of the gold market and international sabotage bring t...

This third novel by Oppenheim was published in 1895. It was originally published under the title „A Daughter of the Marionis” and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, „a daughter of the Marionis,” we have a not impossible character. She does not appear till late in the story, but takes up the vendetta of her uncle with a will. Marionis himself is ...

A collection of nineteen stories, by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890’s and early 1900’s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange appearances and disappearances, and improbable love are the themes of these very enjoyable stories by the master storyteller. Young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous characters abound. „Those Other Days” stories are almost Victorian in their diction and flavor, wit...

„BEHOLD! „ cried Sabul Ahmid, with an upward sweep of his bare, brown arm, „behold the Sacred Temple of the people of Astrea! „ I stood up in the boat, my portfolio under my arm. High on the mountain’s side, crowning a thick mass of laurel undergrowth, and flanked by a grove of deep, cool, byana trees, was the building to which my servant was pointing. The material whereof it was fashioned I could not at that distance determine. Only in the broad, tropical sunlight it flash...

Major Andrew Forester is a retired British Army officer, of no discernible occupation, who wanders about Europe, England and the United States. He is looking for adventure, but not outside the bounds of the acceptable. He is willing to skirt the law, but not break it. His peripatetic life style brings him in contact with scam artists, gold-diggers, art thieves, industrial spies, taxi dancers, and flappers. Sometimes he benefits from these associations, but at other times he...

Egzotyczne wycieczki to niebezpieczne hobby. Co roku kilkuset spragnionych wrażeń Polaków ginie podczas wakacyjnych wojaży. Dlatego nikogo nie dziwi, że nieszczęścia dotykają również uczestników wyprawy do Irlandii z biurem podróży „Hej Wakacje”. Nikogo poza pilotem wycieczki, którego męczy przeczucie, że coś tu nie gra. Tomasz Waciak nie ma jednak czasu na dochodzenia, bo musi się użerać z irlandzką pogodą, roszczeniową starszą panią, ciągłymi zmianami progr...

W cieniach miasta Sangui żyje dziewczyna, która nie istnieje. Gdy Tina wraz matką uciekły z Kongo do Kenii, liczyły na rozpoczęcie nowego życia i znalezienie nowego domu. Matka Tiny szybko znalazła pracę jako pokojówka w domu wpływowej rodziny, której głową jest Roland Greyhill, jeden z najbardziej szanowanych biznesmenów w mieście. Tina szybko dowiaduje się, że swoją fortunę Greyhillowie zbudowali na korupcji i przestępczym życiu. Kiedy więc jej matka zostaje zna...

Na Zodiac Island − samotnej kamienistej wyspie u wybrzeży Stanów Zjednoczonych − wiele lat temu mieścił się park rozrywki, którego motywem przewodnim były znaki zodiaku. Rodziny spędzały tu czas na karuzelach, strzelnicy i w tunelu strachu. Wszystko to kończy się, gdy na wyspie giną trzy kobiety. Zabójca, Jeff Bohner, zostaje zatrzymany i skazany, a park zostaje zamknięty.Po latach, kiedy zbrodnie przechodzą do historii, prywatny inwestor postanawia wskrzesić Zodiac Is...

Zimowa Moskwa. Siedemnastoletnia Tatiana, wracając z treningu gimnastyki, nie wie jeszcze, że jej życie za chwilę zmieni się nieodwracalnie. Kiedy w swoim domu, w zamożnej dzielnicy miasta, znajduje brutalnie zamordowanych rodziców i siostrę, nie pozwala sobie na rozpacz. Działa instynktownie, wiedziona twardym sportowym charakterem. Zabezpieczona przez ojca, odkrywa w domowej skrytce tajemnicze ampułki i pendrive’a. Los nie dał jej wyboru − musi dorosnąć, mu...

Duisburg. Na moście nad Renem stoi policjant gotowy do skoku. Duchowny Martin Bauer, chcąc go powstrzymać, wspina się na barierkę i sam rzuca się w toń. Zaskoczony funkcjonariusz skacze mu na pomoc. Wspólnie dopływają do brzegu. Bauer zaryzykował i wygrał. Jednak kilka godzin później policjant ginie po upadku z dachu garażu. Wszystko wskazuje na samobójstwo − przeciwko mężczyźnie toczyło się dochodzenie w sprawie nadużyć finansowych. Bauer nie ...

WSTRZĄSAJĄCA − OPARTA NA FAKTACH − OPOWIEŚĆ O MIĘDZYNARODOWYM SKANDALU PEDOFILSKIM. Współczesna Rosja. Kulisy tzw. child porn industry i spraw związanych z nadużyciami w stosunku do dzieci. Głośny skandal obejmujący międzynarodowe powiązania biznesowe, wielką politykę, a także emerytowanych agentów KGB. Akcja Małej baletnicy toczy się dwutorowo. Z jednej strony autor przedstawia pracę grupy śledczej, z drugiej – środowisko ludzi zamieszanych w pornograficzny bi...

W dniu swoich sześćdziesiątych urodzin moja ciotka Poldi wyprowadziła się na Sycylię, żeby w wytworny sposób zapić się na śmierć, spoglądając na morze.Tego w każdym razie wszyscy się obawialiśmy, ale ciotce ciągle coś stawało na przeszkodzie. Sycylia jest skomplikowana, tutaj nawet umrzeć nie da się ot tak, po prostu, zawsze coś wchodzi człowiekowi w paradę. A potem wydarzenia zaczęły następować po sobie lawinowo: ktoś zostaje zamordowany, nikt nic nie wie, nikt ni...

A World War I tale of espionage in a fictional „backwater” area in England with no apparent military value called Dreymarsh. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. This discovery triggers a range of events and introduces a myriad of characters which all make for a rather delightful mystery. Oppenheim was famous for his hundreds of spy and espionage novels. He is considered one ...

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. 1924’s „The Wrath to Come” is one of his novels that are „fascinating extrapolations of the political dangers that faced Europe and America in the first half of the twentieth century”. This novel is very occasionally mentioned as be...

A breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and revenge from one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and popular authors of suspense. „The Wicked Marquis” is a story of privilege and the attempt to keep what has been lost. Marquis will go to any length to get enough money to enjoy his title, including forcing one of his daughters to marry an unsuitable candidate with money. Although this novel was published in 1919, its setting and subject is more consistent with a pre-w...

England has not been invited to attend a conference of European nations in the Hague. Some think war is about to break out. „The Vanished Messenger” presents the international intrigue and conspiracy of the Powers against England to separate her from her colonies. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent the outbreak of war when he mysteriously disappears after a train wreck in England. Richard Hamel is asked by...

A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. The tiny kingdom of Theos is surrounded by Eastern European powers in this 1902 novel of politics, war, and romance. Russia and Turkey are plotting to take over the peaceful and rural country. A ...

British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Readers of Mr. Oppenheim’s novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked...

A striking romantic novel of 1913 of a young Englishman’s uphill fight. Douglas Guest is an orphan, raised by a stern, religious, and uncompromising uncle, Gideon Strong, in the North of England. His uncle orders him to marry his cousin and take up the post of cleric in their small town but he confronts his uncle, takes money which was intended for his education, and escapes to London. On the train, he meets the beautiful Countess Emily de Reuss, who takes an interest in hi...

If you haven’t discovered the joys of Oppenheim’s mysteries there is a good place to start. Wealthy playwright and playboy Jermyn Annerley is smitten by the beautiful and talented actress Sybil Cluley. She is very successful but her life is devoted to the care of her young sister who has been ill. At Jermyn’s country estate, Sybil runs into Lord Lakenham, a roguish playboy who is equally in love with her, but also knows something of her past. Jermyn proposes, much to the ch...

A detective and very mysterious story. Mr. Sabin is called out of blissful retirement to search for his missing wife. He believes Lucille to be kidnapped by members of a secret society of aristocrats. It is interesting to watch Mr. Sabin control himself and walk with such dignity and aristocratic bearing and tact, even as he plots to save his own life and reunite with his beloved Lucille. „The Yellow Crayon” presents a fascinating picture of the political mindset of the day...

The mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) starts out in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 500 miles from San Francisco, at a gold mining camp. Bryan came to America from England, chasing a man who may have papers which explain Bryan’s mysterious origins. Enter heroine, the beautiful orphan Myra Mercier who is arriving to the camp where women are not allowed. Murder and mayhem ensue before the pair escapes to San Francisco. Bryan abandons Myra and travels back to England a...

Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the world’s most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as „Joseph”. This is a thrilling and tense story of a struggle between master brains, of gang wars, of d...

British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning, mystery, international espionage and intrigue. Many of his novels have been adapted for the screen. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and „The Seven Conundrums” is one of the best of his many good and exciting books. His plotting is as smooth as silk, with the virtue of creating believabl...

This is a mystery novel surrounding German intrigue and bauxite mining in typical Oppenheim style. E. Phillips Oppenheim was the self-styled „prince of storytellers” and composed some one hundred and fifty novels, mainly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. In this one, Beverley, a handsome tycoon, operates an unknown bauxite mine in mythical kingdom of Orlac, and wages a battle of wits against G...

Mr. Roger Ferrison has just returned to London after several years of living rough in Canada. He takes a small room in the boarding house run by Mrs. Dewar. There he meets the bewitching invalid Fiona Quayne who rapidly develops a consuming passion for Ferrison. Meanwhile, back at the Boarding House, Colonel Dennett is murdered. One suspects from the very beginning that not all of the boarders at Mrs. Dewar’s establishment in Palace Crescent are what they appear to be, and ...

A wonderful old fashioned spy story set in the 1930’s. Like other Oppenheim romances of diplomacy, intrigue and espionage, this latest one poses a critical situation in the relationships of European powers which threatens the immediate out-break of war. „The Spy Paramount” takes us to Rome, 1934. American Martin Fawley, a former secret service agent, is recruited as a spy by General Berati, the most feared man in fascist Italy. Suave and worldly, Fawley is quite at home in ...

„The Tempting of Tavernake” is written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim. He composed some one hundred and fifty novels, mainly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. The hero of this novel, however, is very unusual for several reasons. Tavernake is unemotional, unable to sympathize or even understand the most common social situations. He is diligent, precise, obsessive in his pursuit of wealth, but obl...

A mystery novel with international intrigue set in London before World War Two. Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer’s son from a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally plunged into the world of espionage, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn’t come to the role via the traditional public school and Oxbridge route. Working his way to the top of the secret service, he took on the job of reb...