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John Strangeways lives the life of a country Gentleman farmer with his puritan brother in the hills of Cumberland. Far from the world of cities and noise he lived the clean, healthy, out-of-door life. When actress Louise Maurel’s car breaks down near their farm, she is forced to seek refuge with the misogynist brothers. Love ensues. Life no longer was quite the same to him, and in a short time he followed her to London. The coming of an unsophisticated though well educated,...

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. He was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, and invented the „Rogue Male” school of adventure thrillers that was later exploited by John Buchan and Geoffrey Household. This 192...

This is another great novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. When David Granet asks for a place to stay „within a twenty-mile radius of either Nice or Cannes”, he does not anticipate the trouble that he finds at the Manoir of Lady Grassleyes. The Lady of the manor is dead when he arrives, and the will is disp...

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was the earliest writer of spy fiction as understood today, inventing the „rogue male” school of adventure thrillers and writing over 150 novels of all sorts. In „The Golden Beast”, a woman curses her lover’s father, a baron, who had her gamekeeper father hanged. Years afterward, three of the baron’s descendants disappear in a manner that baffles Scotland Yard, appearing they were the victims of that ancient curse. Written in 1925, with...

The six stories in Part I of this book trace the early career of Peter Benskin. He is a public school graduate with a small private income who joins the police force in London. After an early success he transfers to Scotland Yard where he becomes a detective. He is successful in solving several difficult cases but is hampered at times by his ethical feelings towards criminals who have been coerced or forced to commit crimes. He allows the „innocent” to escape, while he purs...

An engrossing tale of financial intrigue, full of shadowy characters and shady dealings from the author of mystery and espionage thrillers E. Phillips Oppenheim. Phineas Duge, leader of a group of American millionaires who work financial deals together, suspects his colleagues of crooked dealings, and tricks them into signing a document that gives him power over the group. During a struggle the document is stolen from Duge, and everyone is pulled into a frantic search to re...

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa early in his career. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. His is engaged to Lady Olive Nunnelly, and is the envy of all of society. Deane is threatened with ruin when a old enemy – Richard Sinclair- shows up in London with what appears to be a legitimate prior deed to the mine. After a meeting with Deane, the man is found murdered and the ...

This mystery that takes place in 1947 in Nice about conflicting political goals between an American and a Chinese. Shortly thereafter, the granting of independence to the Philippine Islands by the United States, Japan attempts to seize them by force. When the Japanese attempt to invade the newly freed islands, their entire fleet is destroyed by a single battleship of the United States Navy using a weapon that concentrates and amplifies electric currents in the earth’s atmos...

This is a very clever collection of linked stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he fails when he stands for parliament. By chance he becomes involved in a blackmail against his uncle, who is a diplomat. Knox foils the plot, and a new career is born, the gentleman detective. In some ways, the young man carries out increasingly dangerous and cleaver missions against ...

Welcome to 1922 and E. P. Oppenheim’s „The Evil Shepherd”. A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed fellow with a paper-thin alibi. Francis Ledsam is a defense barrister and is congratulating himself on a brilliant performance which has just seen Oliver Hilditch acquitted of murder. His ego is pricked by Margaret Hilditch confessing to him that Hilditch was guilty of crimes far more monstrous than murder...

„Jeśli lubisz moje książki, spodoba Ci się też ta” – Stephen King. „Całkowicie hipnotyzująca…” – A.J. Finn Kiedy Joe Thorne miał piętnaście lat, jego młodsza siostra, Annie, zniknęła. Myślał wtedy, że to najgorsza rzecz, jaka może spotkać jego rodzinę. Dwa dni później jednak Annie wróciła. Wiele lat później Joe Thorne wraca do spokojnej miejscowości, w której spędził dzieciństwo i rozpoczyna pracę jako nauczyciel w podupadającej szkole. Mężczyzna tonie w dłu...

Klasyczny brytyjski kryminał w stylu Agathy Christie Kiedy Mordecai Tremaine wysiada z pociągu na stacji Dalmering, morderstwo jest ostatnią rzeczą, która kojarzy mu się z sielankowym krajobrazem. Okazuje się jednak, że ta urokliwa angielska miejscowość skrywa wiele tajemnic. Próby do amatorskiego przedstawienia teatralnego pod tytułem „Morderstwo ma motyw” idą pełną parą, lecz prawdziwy dramat rozgrywa się poza sceną. Jedna z organizatorek spektaklu zostaje...

Pochłaniająca opowieść o trudnej miłości matki i córki, o ludzkich tęsknotach i ograniczeniach. I o tym, że każdy jest zdolny do zbrodni. Dorota ma dwadzieścia lat. Nigdy nie opuściła domu, nie ma dostępu do telefonu ani internetu. Ola jest młodą bibliotekarką, wychowanką domu dziecka. Zmaga się z toksyczną przeszłością i kompleksami. Kiedy ich drogi się krzyżują, dochodzi do zbrodni. Czy bohaterki będą musiały zapłacić najwyższą cenę za wspólną grę, którą roz...

The Church has always been intrinsically linked to politics, although it would never admit that. Information is the most valuable commodity of the 21st century, a power which can be used to either create or destroy. It is behind the Vatican walls that strategies, and means that can change the world are being developed. One of them, stored on a memory stick, has exactly that power. Giuseppe, a long-serving employee of archbishop Luca receives a seemingly straightforward ...

Kościół jest od wieków nierozerwalnie związany z polityką, choć się do tego nie przyznaje. Informacja jest najdroższym towarem w XXI wieku, siłą, którą można operować w celu kreacji lub zniszczenia. To w murach Watykanu opracowywane są strategie i możliwości przemiany świata. Jedna z nich, zapisana na pendrivie ma tę właśnie moc. Giuseppe, od wielu lat zaufany pracownik arcybiskupa Lucki otrzymuje z pozoru banalne zadanie dostarczenia informacji do Klasztoru. Informacji...

Molly Murphy, dzielny nowojorski detektyw, powraca w 1903 roku do rodzinnej Irlandii, by poprowadzić poszukiwania siostry irlandzko-amerykańskiego impresario. Przed laty kobieta była zbyt chora, by wraz z rodziną pożeglować do Stanów w ucieczce przed panującym głodem i została pozostawiona sama sobie. Teraz zaś skruszony brat chce zapisać jej cały swój majątek. Burzliwa okaże się już sama podróż do Irlandii, ale na miejscu na Molly będą czekać kolejne niespodzianki… B...

Delightful collection of mysteries of the first blind detective. In 1914, Ernest Bramah published his first collection of Carrados stories, „Max Carrados”. Max Carrados is a detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. He is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes with facts, information and his advanced senses, which over-compensate for...

„Max Carrados Mysteries” is a collection of Bramah’s classic detective tales containing „The Secret of Headlam Height”, „The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown” and many other stories. Carrados is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes with facts, information and his advanced senses, which over-compensate for his blindness. In „The Coin of Dionysius” we first meet the suave sleuth Max Carrados to help determine whether an old coin is real or a clever fake. In „The Gam...

„Oto ideał powieści fantasy”.                                                                                                 „Publishers Weekly” Upłynęły cztery miesiące, odkąd w ręce Kella wpadł czarny kamień. Cztery miesiące, odkąd przecięły się ścieżki antariego i dziewczyny z Szarego Londynu, Delilah Bard. Cztery miesiące, odkąd książę Rhy został ranny, Kell i Lila pokonali rządzące Białym Londynem bliźniaki Dane, a kamień wraz z umierającym Hollandem wrzucili w ...

„The Bravo of London” is a book in the Max Carrados series. Also, Max Carrados will be followed by „The eyes of Max Carrados” in 1923, „The Specimen Case” in 1924, „Max Carrados Mysteries” in 1927, and „The Bravo of London” in 1934. Max Carrados is a blind detective who uses his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Working with his old friend, Louis Carlyle, a private investigator, the wealthy Carrados pursues his ta...

Short mysteries involving the blind detective Carrados. Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind – and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight. „The Eyes of Max Carrados” opens with a somewhat defensive essay which chronicles astonishing feats of the blind. Carrados himself outdoes them all and perhaps combines a few too many amazing abilities for real convi...

Cynthia und Arthur Dorban lernen auf einer Zugfahrt durch Kanada die Protagonistin Penelope Pitt kennen und bieten ihr eine Stelle als Privatsekretärin auf ihrem Landsitz in England an. Die junge Penelope würde am liebsten aus dem kanadischen Edmonton, in dem sie aufwuchs, zurück in ihre Geburtsstadt London. Ein Traum wahr zu werden. Cynthia und Arthur Dorban leben auf einem Landsitz an der Südküste Englands. Durch Zufall entdeckt Penelope das gefährliche Geheimnis des Ehep...

Acht bis an die Zähne bewaffnete Männer von Scotland Yard bewachen einen Transport von 73000 Pfund Sterling. Aber der Geldtransporter mit Geld und seine Bewacher verschwindet auf der Straße von London nach Tilbury. Nach dem mysteriösen Verschwinden fehlt jede Spur. As wirklich geschehen?

Caroline Smith wird von Joe Grandman beauftragt. Detektivin Caroline Smith, die den kostbaren Schmuck der Gäste vor einer berüchtigten Juwelendiebin schützen soll. Joe Grandman gibt auf seinem Landsitz bei London einen Galaempfang. Doch Miss Smith kann ihren Auftrag nicht ausführen – denn sie wird vergiftet...