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Le manoir délabré de La Barre-y-va est l’espace d’événements mystérieux et horribles. Rentant tard du théâtre un soir du mois d’août, le vicomte Raoul d’Avenac découvre son appartement éclairé. Il y est visité par une jolie fille qui l’attend en détresse. Catherine Montessieux, la jeune femme qui en est l’héritière, ne peut plus dormir tranquillement. Une vieille à demi folle l’avertit d’un péril qu’elle ne peut préciser. Et maintenant l’aventurier devenu détective va entre...

L’apparition sur la scène de l’Opéra de la séduisante Régine Aubry, dont la robe est recouverte d’une précieuse tunique avec les diamants les plus purs, est la chose la plus intéressante du évènement. Des diamants sont volés à un mannequin lors d’une présentation de mode et ce mannequin est emmené dans une grande maison de maitre à Paris. Quelque temps après, se passe une étrange répétition des évènements. Le baron Jean d’Enneris (Arsène Lupin bien sûr!) décide d’enquêter s...

«On affirmait ces jours-ci que le fameux cambrioleur Arsène Lupin, qui, après quelques années de silence, fait beaucoup parler de lui actuellement, aurait été vu mercredi dernier dans une ville de l’Est. Des insprcteurs ont été envoyés de Paris. Une fois de plus, il aurait échappé à l’etreinte de la police.» Victor, de la Brigade mondaine, considère Lupin comme l’ennemi personnel. Est-ce que le qentleman-cabrioleur peut affronter l’attaque?

Une atmosphère sombre des légendes celtes, le présage sanglant, le comte Vorski sans-cœur, voilà de quoi frissonner d’angoisse et de terreur. Les gens superstitieux appellent ce lieu «L’île aux trente cercueils». La raison est simple: il y a une terrible prophétie, que dit trente victimes doivent mourir dont quatre femmes en croix. Quelle est la destinee de la jeune femme de bonne famille Véronique, qui est impliqué dans cette histoire? Quel est le fin de l’amour impossible...

Ici Arsène Lupin n’est pas juste l’homme, il est un héros, qui a sauvé l’amour. De la première à la dernière page le lecteur attend un gentleman-cambrioleur pour jeter la lumière sur ce qui se passe. Et Après il s’exclame: «Oh! C’est évidemment! ». Une histoire intrigante, laquelle faire se réfléchir à la conséquence que peut apporter l’avidité. De temps en temps les gens peuvent faire des choses terribles pour l’argent...

Une aventure que se déroule en partie dans les lieux magnifiques: Ambrumésy et dans d’autres villes françaises. L’histoire de la battre contre Arsène Lupin un filou génial, et Isidore Beautrelet, jeune lycéen et détective amateur, l’histoire du jeu du chat et de la souris entre Lupin et l’inspecteur Ganimard et aussi l’histoire de l’opposition entre un gentleman-cambrioleur et Herlock Sholmes. Mystérieuse chasse a l’un des plus grands énigmes d’Arsène Lupin – un secret de l...

Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès! Que d’aventures! Que de l’intrigue! Que du bonheur! L’homme qui défie toutes les polices françaises contre une sorte de phénomène d’intuition, d’observation et d’ingéniosité. L’auteur nous plonge directement au coeur de l’action et nous présente son personnage-clé sous son aspect du gentleman voleur. Leur bataille est un grand spectacle. Ce roman vas vous faire avoir hâte de retrouver les aventures d’Arsène Lupin.

Ce livre est la fin d’une histoire passionnante commencée avec le roman de Maurice Leblanc «La Comtesse de Cagliostro». C’est une histoire où se mêlent l’amour et l’haine et où se retrouvent des fantômes du passé à travers la Cagliostro. Arsène Lupin doit se surpasser pour éviter la vengance haineuse qui le chasse! Alors, combien de difficultés la destinée prépare pour lui? Est-il assez fort pour les surmonter?

Il avait rencontré une charmante femme, qui avait à la fois le sourire le plus sincère et le plus sombre, le regard le plus naïf et le plus sensuel, l’apparence le plus modeste. Mais qui est-elle? Quelle est la véritable personnalité de cette beauté? Grâce à son intelligence, il défie toutes les polices françaises et les truands avec succès et avec quelle maestria! Il risque sa vie et se surpasse, quand se battant contre les ombres. C’est un Arsène Lupin que nous n’avons pa...

Quand Arsène Lupin se promène dans Paris, il remarque un homme, qui suit une jolie femme blonde aux yeux bleus. Intrigué il commence aussitôt les filer et traverse le chemin de la demoiselle aux yeux verts. Il ne se doute pas des nombreuses péripéties qui l’attendent. Une mystérieuse histoire couvre les yeux verts, tout le monde s’acharne autour d’eux. Presque par hasard Arsène entre une histoire de ses plus formidables aventures, de cambriolages, de meurtres, de poursuite ...

L’aventure suivant du gentleman-cambrioleur. Ce fois insaisissable Lupin doit se rencontrer face à face avec un adversaire dangereux, habile et très artificieux. Les sortes des nombreaux gens et, avant tout, la vie de son compagnon et copin, qui est condamné à la peine capitale. Peut-il, le plus grand voleur dans le monde, sauver Gilbert de la guillotine? Est-il asses agile pour rétablir son honneur?

„Les huit coups de l’horloge” est une série de huit aventures, que nous offre une rangée des talents et de la finesse d’esprit d’Arsène Lupin. C’est l’époque avant la guerre, ce sont les événements les plus incompréhensibles et les énigmes les plus compliqués pour résoudre. Il y a beaucoup de questions et en même temps il n’y a pas de réponses... Mais le prince Serge Rénine –pouvons-nous dire Arsène Lupin? – n’est pas dupe. Il est sûr, que c’est son jeu.

813 est plein de événements inattendus! Lugubre, parsemée de morts violentes, le roman afflue de la première à la dernière page, le lecteur n’a pas du temps de prendre un peu de souffle. Il faut noter que Lupin a trouvé un adversaire à sa taille: organisé et impitoyable. Que représente ce chiffre, 813, retrouvé dans la chambre de la victime? Arsène est-il devenu un meurtrier? Maintenant est le temps pour trouver les réponses.

C’est une autre histoire saturé des énigmes et des aventures. Un riche américain, qui s’appele Cosmo Mornington, est décédé dans d’étranges circonstances. Il reste un grand héritage, que provoque une séquence des crimes en France. Si les descendants de la famille Roussel ne se retrouvent pas, l’argent sera remis à Don Luis Perenna, qui est...bien sûr! Arsène Lupin! Ce n’est pas difficile pour lui d’être un distingué espagnol et chef de la Sûreté à Paris, d’être vivant et en...

C’est un récit de neuf romans qui sont rassemblés par le narrateur rencontré dans un précédent volume, Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur. Les neuf nouvelles sont variées et représentent Lupin comme un personnage élégant, qui peut surprendre tout le monde dans une intrigue incroyable. Il n’hésite pas à aider ceux qui s’apparaissent sur son chemin, mais il n’oublie pas sa part de richesse. Il est l’intelligence et la subtilité, un voleur génial, il n’accomplit aucun crime, t...

Arsène Lupin – un Robin des Bois de la «Belle Epoque», l’énigmatique personnage, le fantaisiste gentleman, qui n’opère que dans les châteaux et les salons, l’insaisissable cambrioleur dont on racontait les prouesses dans tous les journaux depuis des mois, l’homme aux mille déguisements. Ce n’est pas un aristocrate qui vit comme un anarchiste mais un anarchiste qui vit comme un aristocrate. Ajoutons à cela la fascination de se mettre du mauvais côté de la loi, ainsi qu’une a...

W środku nocy na leśnym kempingu przy Ruppertshain wybucha pożar. W zgliszczach policja znajduje ludzkie szczątki. Zaraz potem dochodzi do morderstwa w hospicjum. Oliver von Bodenstein i Pia Sander muszą wrócić do sprawy sprzed czterdziestu lat, kiedy zaginął Artur, najlepszy przyjaciel Olivera. Policjant będzie musiał zmierzyć się z traumą z  dzieciństwa i skonfrontować mieszkańców Ruppertshain z przysypaną sprawą sprzed lat. Tymczasem giną kolejne osoby. Czy nad wioską wi...

La séduisante belle femme, qui est la fille du majestueux comte Cagliostro et qui posséde des nombreaux secrets de son père, adore les toutes sortes des aventures. Pendant cette chasse aux aventures elle est jointe par Arsène Lupin – un filou génial, un gentleman-cambrioleur. Tout sera allé bien, s’il n’était tombé amoureaux...

Ce livre est la suite du roman célèbre du Gaston Leroux «Le mystère de la Chambre Jaune» et ici on retrouve les personnages connus. Un jeune journaliste Rouletabille entre en jeu de massacre avec un malfaiteur Gaulow qui est un loup-garou. La situation devient alors inquiete: évanescence, délit... Le secret s’épaissit. Rouletabille doit se surpasser pour venir à bout de cette véritable „histoire du diable.”

«Le Fauteuil hanté» est un roman policier comique et „noir”. L’histoire se passe à L’Académie française, qui devient le théâtre de drames répétés. Chaque candidat à la succession de Mgr d’Abbeville s’écrouli, mort, pendant le discours de réception. Le Secrétaire perpétuel et marchand d’antiquités commencent leur investigation en tremblant de peur... et ils nous font bien rire. C’est histoire qui se présente comme un récit d’horreur mais qui, finalement, amuse beaucoup plus ...

Rouletabille, amoureaux et tout enivré du désir d’être heureux avec Ivana Vilitchkov, il se jete avec ses amis dans la gueule du loup et il risque cent fois sa vie. Il veut la tirer des griffes de ce assassin de toute sa famille, il se bat pour sauver Ivana et capturer son ravisseur, mais elle... elle ne veut pas aller avec Rouletabille. Il n’arrête pas la protéger. Peut la puissance de l’amour transformer un limier intelligant en petit garçon?

Demoniczny zbrodniarz i eksperymenty okultystyczne Jan Piołun,  cierpiący na nieuleczalną chorobę chirurg z Poznania wyjeżdża w Góry Sowie do cieszącego się złą sławą schroniska na Wilczycy. Nie zdaje sobie sprawy, że jego przyjazd wywoła lawinę dramatycznych zdarzeń oraz przebudzi nadnaturalne siły.  Tymczasem w okolicy dochodzi do makabrycznych zbrodni oraz tajemniczych zdarzeń. Policjant Dominik Lamberg coraz wyraźniej dostrzega paranormalny kontekst sprawy i wespół...

Niewyjaśnione zdarzenia, paranormalne zjawiska, nadnaturalne zdolności – a może jedynie usterka, drobna wada w mechanizmie? Co może łączyć prostego drwala z prowincji, profesjonalnego zabójcę na zlecenie, zwyczajnego, nudnego księgowego, zakochaną młodą dziewczynę i renomowanego psychologa z szesnastoletnim stażem? Wszyscy bohaterowie „Usterki” prowadzą normalny, spokojny żywot – jednak tylko do czasu. Kiedy w ich otoczeniu zaczynają dziać się rzeczy, które trudno wytłum...

Tajna akcja FBI i burzliwy romans. Polska tłumaczka Paulina przybywa do USA na rozmowy z wydawcą. Ku swojemu zaskoczeniu na lotnisku zostaje dość brutalnie zatrzymana przez ochronę. Na miejsce przybywa agent FBI, który po krótkim przesłuchaniu zwalnia ją, wyjaśniając lakonicznie, że została wzięta za kogoś innego. Irytacja miesza się w umyśle młodej Polki z ciekawością. Kim jest kobieta, z którą ją pomylono, a którą interesuje się FBI? Paulina nie wie jeszcze, że wkr...

In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terri...

Emilia Przecinek, znana autorka powieści dla kobiet, w wieku czterdziestu lat zostaje rozwódką z dwójką nastoletnich dzieci, kredytem hipotecznym do spłacenia oraz matką i teściową na karku. Dzieci nalegają, żeby chodziła na randki, a obie starsze panie, no cóż, jak to one, włażą z butami, gdzie tylko się da. W takiej sytuacji można albo załamać się nerwowo, albo popełnić morderstwo. Mimo niesprzyjających okoliczności Emilia postanawia odmienić swoje życie. Nie jest to ł...

Na miejscu zdarzenia prokurator Miron Brzeziński wraz z podkomisarzem Sewerynem Frochem ustalają, że morderca najpierw zadał ofierze cios w głowę tępym narzędziem, aby później obciąć jej palce. Pierwsze podejrzenia policja kieruje wobec rodziców Wojciech Brandysa. Tymczasem kolejnej nocy ginie Tomasz Bednarz - młody pracownik korporacji. Okazuje się, że podobnie jak Brandys, Bednarz zginął od ciosu zadanego w głowę, tym razem jednak morderca włożył w usta mężczyzny obcięty pe...

Komunista z przekonania, doświadczony agent krakowskiej "bezpieki", ma dokonać nietypowego zamachu na papieża-Polaka. Nieoczekiwanie... sam musi walczyć o życie!
Nie żegna się jednak z podniosłymi ideami tworzenia raju na ziemi. Taki raj (z równym zapałem jak komuniści) próbują przecież budować na tym świecie także bracia-masoni. Czy to tylko "polityczna fikcja"?

Komisarz Cichosz, znany już z powieści Śmierć dziekana, podejmuje się rozwiązania zagadki kolejnego morderstwa na Uniwersytecie Kuropaskim. Tym razem ofiarą jest dyrektorka Instytutu Semikomunikacji Interkulturowej Hellada Słoneczny. Sprawy komplikują się, gdy do zespołu śledczych dołącza była pracownica Instytutu Andżela (Aniela) Mentel. Interesujące portrety psychologiczne postaci, barwny język, przewrotny humor i akademickie realia sprawiają, że książka zainteresuje n...

Jaki związek ze współczesnością mają XIX wieczne wydarzenia rozgrywające się w szlacheckim dworku? Czy zwyczajny wyjazd w góry może okazać się początkiem niesamowitej, a zarazem niebezpiecznej przygody?Grupa przyjaciół przypadkowo odkrywa magazyn tajemniczej organizacji w jednej z rumuńskich jaskiń. W wyniku jej działań, mających na celu ochronę magazynu, ginie jeden z przyjaciół. Pozostali chcą rozwikłać zagadkę i tylko zbieg okoliczności sprawia, że odkrywają informacje o d...

The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the genre, selling thousands of copies on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert Hawke is a man on the run. After returning from business in London, he finds that a sworn enemy, Will Colville, has been shot dead and the murder ...

Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing is best known for his character Dr. John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. „Shuttlebury Cobb” is a completely different sort of book. In it Freeman demonstrates his sense of humor and whimsy as he f...

In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robber’s strange hair which Challoner’s wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for the killer, in the process revenging himself on London’s criminals class i...

"When Rogues Fall Out” incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting „essay” on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where so...

Dr.Thornedyke’s methods of detection are characterised by investigations of apparently irrelevant facts and lengthy explanations of his train of hypothetical reasoning. In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke’s ability to identify fish scales and rope material sets his investigation in motion. The crime is the murder of an aristocrat staged to look like a suicide. There are really two stories alternating, which eventually become one. We watch Dr. Thorndyke follow a thin and improbable...

R. Austin Freeman’s mysteries are often divided into two parts, the first dealing with events leading up to a murder, followed by Dr. Thorndyke’s investigation. In this case, the first part, about a beautiful woman who poses as a serious artist, then disappears, is delightful. It details the friendship between Thomas Pedley and Loretta Schiller. The second part is written in the first person with Jervis, Thorndyke’s assistant, being the narrator as usual. A peaceful, pleasa...

This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests capture unwary travelers and blind them to prevent escape. Purely out of curi...

First, there are two seemingly unrelated events: the murder of a constable in pursuit of a diamond thief and the attempt to poison a potter by using arsenic. The connection lies in the presence of Dr. Oldfield, a Dr. Thorndyke’s former student, who happened to find the constable body and served as the consulting physician of the potter. Dr. Oldfield once again found a trace of murder: ashes of cremated human human body in the dustbin at the potter’s studio. The police tries...

„The Penrose Mystery”, fist published in 1936, is definitely up to the high standard of the wonderful Dr. Thorndyke series. Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won’t insure. When Dr. Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word ‘lobster’ on it along with two Latin words. Meanwhile, Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police believe he’s gone into hiding to avoid a manslaugh...

This novel is an excellent example of the inverted detective story, a modern form that R. Austin Freeman is credited with inventing. You know from the beginning who the guilty party is, but watching Dr. Thorndyke figure it out is amazing. And watching the perpetrator think that he is getting away with his crime, while watching Dr. Thorndyke close in on him is well-done literary irony. The fun comes not from being baffled, but from watching Thorndyke’s mind at work and obser...

Originally written in 1907, „The Red Thumb Mark” opens the series by R. Austin Freeman featuring Dr. Thorndyke, who is a sort of Sherlock-Holmes type character. A single fingerprint is found at the scene of a crime. When the police are able to identify that fingerprint, the case seems closed. But Dr. Thorndyke, the detective/barrister/medical doctor who takes on defense of this suspect, thinks he can disprove the prosecution’s case, based on that same fingerprint. It does n...

Mr. Pottermack, wrongly convicted for forgery of checks, has escaped from jail, made his fortune in the US and come back to England to find his fiance. The only one who is cleverer than Mr. Pottermack is Freeman’s detective, Dr. Thorndyke. In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the world he wants. Then Mr. Pottermack comes up against the legendary Dr. John...

A daring daylight art theft from a crowded museum, a secret document centuries old, and a hidden treasure, these are the elements of the title story in this collection of tales by R. Austin Freeman. Though best known for his famous forensic sleuth, Dr. John Thorndyke, Freeman also on occasion wrote stories featuring other characters. In addition to „The Great Portrait Mystery”, this collection features four more of these tales which show a more whimsical and humorous side o...

Angelina Frood, a striking young ex-actress, has gone missing and her new friend Dr. Strangeways, a good-hearted young doctor and the narrator of the story, is determined to find out what has happened and along the way enlists the assistance of Dr. Thorndyke. The local police Sergeant is hot on the trail, as items of clothing and jewellery belonging to Angelina are discovered. There’s serious trouble ahead, but fortunately Dr. Thorndyke, the great medico-legal expert, will ...

R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is an „autobiography” of Thorrndyke’s lab assistant Polton. Polton, Dr. Thorndyke’s lab assistant and a servant has graced every Thorndyke mystery with his mechanical ingenuity, his sumptuous meals and teas, and his crinkly smile. The second part is a mystery tale, which builds on some of ...

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillum’s body is found, the inquest duly returns a verdict of suicide and blackmail ...

This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched „evidence.” His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And there’s been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with a British vessel somehow implicated. The plot evolves around all these susp...

„The Eye of Osiris”, published in 1911, was the second of R. Austin Freeman’s many Dr. Thorndyke mystery novels. Here the great expert in medical jurisprudence will encounter the mysteries of ancient Egypt – without ever leaving London. The cast of characters is rich in Egyptologists. A wealthy old man, John Bellingham, collector of Egyptian antiquities, has disappeared without a trace. His brother is also an Egyptologist, as is his niece and the lawyer who executed his wil...

Helen Vardon narrates her own story and one in which Dr. Thorndyke barely features until the final chapters. Helen Vardon contracts to a marriage without full knowledge of the circumstances regarding her father’s financial status. This leads to a dastardly trail of intrigue and deception and ends in murder. Dr. Thorndyke appears at the eleventh hour but does he save the day? Dr. Thornedyke is left to piece together the clues in this enticing mystery. This novel is a departu...

Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing story of a polite, artistic gentleman who, by a series of mistakes, accident...

This little novel is a total departure from the Dr. Thorndyke mysteries, the classic British detective novels that made Freeman’s reputation. The heroine is a perfectly proper but adventurous young woman named Phyllis, who takes over her cousin Charlie’s chambers in Clifford Inn. The presence of some of Charlie’s clothes in the closet gives her the idea of dressing as a man for a fancy dress ball. Unfortunately, Phyllis looks just like the charming Charlie when wearing his ...

Narrated by Robert Anstey, who is acting as Thorndyke’s counsel as Jervis is away in America. He walks right into a murder scene, attracted by the screams of a beautiful young woman. The dead man is a harmless old bachelor who collects objects of arcane appeal. Several pieces of inscribed jewelry are missing. It’s a strange sort of burglary perpetrated by clumsy amateurs – who nonetheless got clean away. Dr. Thorndyke takes on the case and enlists Anstey as his sidekick. An...

All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardine’s troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared. The police can find no trace that the man was ever there, so Jardine ta...

What would you do if your doppelganger were committing crimes and making the police believe you were the perpetrator? In Danby Croker’s case, he decides to retaliate! But that is only one of the problems besetting him in this set of interlinked stories. Given a job as an antique dealer, can he resist the temptations of earning some easy money through a bit of fencing and counterfeiting? And what on earth is he doing going round London dressed as a suffragette?! R. Austin Fr...

In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke builds a card house of wild speculations to solve a perplexing murder case, astonishing all observers, including the police. The victim is Julius D ’Arblay, an artist highly skilled at the rare French art of making wax-work figures and portrait masks. D’Arblay has a beautiful daughter, which leads to a romance with a young Dr. Grey who discovers the father’s body and brings the case to Dr. Thorndyke’s attention. Before the end of the story, the ...

Second in the Dr. Thorndyke mystery series set in London around 1900. Thorndyke is a lawyer and medical doctor who reasons out mysteries. This involves a young doctor friend who Thorndyke hires as his assistant whose strange case involving a mysteries man and couple who are caring for him and an inheritance case brought to Thorndyke. A classic English mystery with the detective, Dr. Thorndyke, solving what appears to be two disparate mysteries. One is an apparent suicide wi...

John Osborne is a young gentleman who has left England for some, as of yet, unknown reason. He settles in Adaffia, an ends-of-the-earth type of town on the Gold Coast. Almost immediately he gets into a fight defending the only other white man in town, a drunken trader. And we see that Osborne is a tremendous fighter skilled at ju-jitsu, boxing, wrestling and strategy. These skills will come into play again and again, in a mutiny, a rebellion and other struggles with formida...

R. Austin Freeman was one of the best mystery writers ever and this book is one to prove it. Harold Monkhouse is a very sick man but no one including his doctor seems to know what is wrong with him. When he is found dead of arsenic poisoning, his brother demands an investigation and everyone in the household is a suspect. Who was behind this cruel death; the loving wife, Barbara; her friend, Madeline or Wallingford, the rather eccentric secretary? They all inherit something...

In Chesterton’s second Father Brown book, „The Wisdom of Father Brown,” we get a series of bizarre, sometimes dangerous mysteries that Father Brown must puzzle out. Some of the crimes are simple once Brown explains them, but others are devious, chilling things that are wrapped in Chesterton’s poetic prose. In the stories that follow, the priest investigates many other mysteries: a sinister voodoo cult, a nobleman with a deformed ear, a gang of Italian thieves, a lie-detecto...

Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series are not as compact as those in other books, notably „The Innocence of Father Brown,” but they have the same magnetic power to draw the reader in. As ever, Chesterton is interested not only in delivering first rate detective stories, but of describing human nature. His characters are...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel. It is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes ’Thursday’, one of the seven ...

Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detectives, right after Sherlock Holmes. In some ways, Father Brown was a continuation of what Chesterton wrote in his classic Orthodoxy.The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable...

Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeau’s house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story collections has something the first three did not: a framing sequence at the beginning and end, in which Father Brown explains to a curious person his method for solving crimes – h...

„Beyond the City” explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew. Destiny brings these three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit dr...

„A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus” is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1899. The novel features the story of a happily married couple which is threatened by a previous lover of the husband. Also, the novel tells the adventures of a young couple, starting from their wedding preparation and ending with the birth of their first child. They are funny and cute, love each other, passionate and want always to be together. They make rules for family l...

This novel is considered to be one of Conrad’s major works and in subject matter is close to The Secret Agent. It is also full of conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals. Razumov is a career-motivated young man, unwillingly trapped in a political situation. As he travel to Geneva (from St. Petersburg), brings hope that he is going to go back to his normal life, while he is getting more involved in politic, by felling in love with the sis...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London 1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients’ background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. This volume contains the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only character...

The eighth issue features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction. These are the next to last of the series of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. Some are set before the Great War, the last takes place in 1914. Holmes is retired and refused to take on any more cases, preferring to live out his years in a small rural village. „His Last Bow” is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, plu...

The collection includes the famous stories about Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective. Sherlock Holmes, the common man, often lying around, rereading favorite books, the best detective in England. Sherlock Holmes, possessor of an incredible mind, and strength, will surprise you not once, not giving you time to realize the complexity and mystery of the crime and the quickness of its opening. There are 4 Novels and 43 Short Stories. When Sherlock Holmes begins investigati...

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. The Sherlock Holmes Collection: 4 Novels („The Study in Scarlet”, „The Sign of Four”, „The Valley of Fear”, „The Hound of the Baskervilles”) and 43 Short Stories. They are all told as Dr. Watson’s memoirs and are excellently written. „The Hound of the Baskervilles”, a haunting novel of murder on eerie ...

Arthur Conan Doyle never wasted time in getting his stories moving. His plots are always direct and refreshingly lucid, and the narrative has a velocity that sweeps you along right to the end. This was no doubt a large part of his immense worldwide success. Volume 6 continues the exciting adventures of the world’s most famous pipe-smoking detective, Sherlock Holmes, collecting works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Volume includes „The Adventure of the Gloria Scott”, „The...

The seventh issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. A cypher message and a horrible murder in a Sussex village begin this dark and powerful tale as Holmes battles with the forces of the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. Central to the novel lies the story of a terrorist brotherhood and the hold it acquires over an American mining valley. Sherlock Holmes and his steadfast companion, Dr. W...