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Newspaperman Walter Jameson is assigned to shadow his friend Professor Craig Kennedy for a month to report on how he solves mysterious crimes and to give „an intimate picture of the man and his work.” Basically, Kennedy’s a scientist who uses his superior scientific knowledge and a bunch of contraptions he makes to expose the criminals. „The Dream Doctor” is the third book in the Dr. Kennedy series written by Arthur B. Reeve, the short stories were stitched together into ps...

Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is engaged in tracking down a gang of motor bandits. The police, the city detectives, the automobile detectives and Guy Garrick are all working on the problems, and the unravelling and subsequent glory of Garrick are very exciting. The eleventh volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar...

Arthur J. Rees is a past master in the art of fashioning ingenious mystery-detective yarns and „The Moon Rock” is one of his best. The author’s many admirers will find keen enjoyment and many puzzling moments in their endeavors to solve the mystery. Robert Turold had spent his life trying to prove his claim to an ancient title. Yet, when it seems he is about to finally succeed, his body is found in a remote cottage on the Cornish coast, an apparent suicide. Detective Branne...

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. The new Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husband’s family home. However, she is seemingly taken ill and can’t accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbor’s house after dinner. Later she is dead of a gunshot wound, an heirloom pearl necklace is missing, and Scotland Yard is homing in o...

The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event for North Carolina. How could she get out of this situation?

Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of „Topper” brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they’ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the ...

To jest tajemnica Romy Ligockiej: jej książki pisane są zawsze bardzo osobiście i emocjonalnie. Stąd ich siła i wyjątkowa więź z czytelnikami. Pisarka przygląda się światu, który ją otacza, opowiada nam swoje życie – zawsze trochę inaczej, zawsze z innej perspektywy. Refleksyjnie, dojrzale, z łagodnym poczuciem humoru. Najnowsza książka jest może bardziej emocjonalna niż inne. Jej sercem jest bowiem opowieść autorki o tym, jak stara się pomóc bliskiej osobie w najważniej...

Wchodząc w XXI wiek Polska – jak i cały świat – stała się areną cyfrowej rewolucji. Komputery z fantastycznych wizji przeobraziły się w przedmioty codziennego użytku. Bezgłośny światłowód wyparł skrzeczące modemy, a pokolenie MTV, zbiorowy umysł zjednoczony przed telewizorem, ustąpiło przed pokoleniem Neo, cyborgami połączonymi z komputerami – i sobą nawzajem. Miłość, polityka, kultura, media – globalna sieć odmieniła wszystko. Internet stał się „miejscem”, w którym żyjemy,...

On jest wszystkim, o czym marzyła. Ona – tym, czego on nie może mieć. Takiego duetu jeszcze nie było! Bestsellerowi autorzy Gabriela Gargaś i Marcel Woźniak przedstawiają swoją pierwszą wspólną powieść! Na Dworcu Centralnym znalezione zostają zwłoki mężczyzny… Gdy trzy miesiące wcześniej drogi Aniki i Roberta przecinają się w ciemnym hotelowym korytarzu, rozpoczyna się gra, w której namiętność bierze górę nad rozsądkiem, a skrywane fantazje budzą demony przeszłości. W...

W jaki sposób nastawienie psychiczne wpływa na kondycję fizyczną? Dlaczego warto umieć słuchać, a nie tylko mówić? Po co nam asertywność? Czym jest negatywna motywacja i jak ją spożytkować? Dlaczego wygląd zewnętrzny jest tak samo ważny jak osobowość? Na te i wiele innych pytań szuka odpowiedzi autor książki „A kto mi, kuźwa, zabroni”. W 49 zabawnych, błyskotliwych i frapujących rozdziałach wnikliwy czytelnik odnajdzie zapis walki z przeciwnościami losu, rozmaitymi dyle...

Świąteczno-noworoczne cuda czasem się zdarzają. Ale niektórym trzeba pomócRozgrzewająca serce opowieść o mieszkańcach pewnej kamienicy, ich bliskich oraz nieznajomych, których losy zaskakująco się splatają. To m.in. kobieta na zakręcie, która musi wybierać między kilkoma adoratorami, młodzi duchem starsi państwo, rozczarowany kobietami samotny ojciec, skrywająca tajemnicę zabiegana matka i żona, pewny siebie biznesmen, niewierny mąż, nieśmiała poetka, zagadkowy kurier i rezol...

Obszerna rozprawa naukowa na temat przyczyn krzyżackiego sukcesu w podboju Prus w XIII wieku. Rozdział I: Geneza i ogólna charakterystyka stron konfliktu, czyli o podejściu do nauki historii. Historia jako nauka nomotetyczna i idiograficzna. Prusowie, czyli o nomotetycznym standardzie. Krzyżacy i krzyżowcy, czyli o idiograficznym fenomenie. Rozdział II: Przebieg podboju Prus w XIII wieku. Preludium i etap I podboju (do roku 1236). Etap II podboju (lata 1237-1255...

O czymkolwiek pisze Artur Daniel Liskowacki – o teatrze, filmie, literaturze i życiu literackim, o Szczecinie czy Oborach, otoczeniu gabinetu proktologa w przychodni zdrowia, brzuchomówstwie, poezji Piotra Szewca, prozie Romana Bratnego – jest w tym ironia. „Ironia – ładne imię dla paskudnej dziewczynki”. Zmysłowi obserwacji, erudycji, rozległości skojarzeń towarzyszy świadomość języka, którym pisze, którym myśli, i to nadaje jego tekstom szczególną dynamikę, sz...

„The Trimmed Lamp” follows „The Four Million” and provides another series of twenty-five short stories that take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. Contents: „A Madison Square Arabian Night”, „The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball”, „The Pendulum”, „Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen”, „The Assessor of Success” and others. Stories of the lives of blue collar workers and middl...

Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his own creativity. „Whirligigs”, comprised of 24 short stories and published in 1910, is evidence of this. O. Henry writes of love and loss, of mystery and drama, of journalism and murders and trials. He creates a tapestry of characters, young and old, wealthy and poor. It offers some ...

O. Henry (whose real name is William Sydney Porter) is famous for his many short stories of everyday-life America, full of wit, charm, and inventiveness. This collection of classic tales set on the wrong side of the law showcases a master craftsman at the top of his form. „The Gentle Grafter” is a collection of 14 short stories about grafters who travel, peddle and swindle in the South. Those grafters have different business ethics and moral senses, and their artistic plots...

O. Henry is most widely recognized for his stories’ dry wit, plot twists and surprise ending. But another major element in his fiction is his love of the American urban environment, as well as a keen appreciation of the rapid diversification that occurred in many cities in the early twentieth century. In „The Voice of the City”, O. Henry uses excellently written short stories and high vocabulary to convey a sense on New York. This collection brings together an array of tale...

Arthur Morrison was a prolific journalist and author best known for his detective fiction that featured the lawyer-detective Martin Hewitt, who was the most successful rival to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. His realistic novels and stories are sober in tone, but the characters are portrayed with a Dickensian colorfulness. His attitude toward the people he described was paternalist, rather than radical, and he opposed socialism and the trades-union movement. This was...

Arthur Morrison, who was English novelist, short story writer and journalist, wrote pioneering realistic narratives about working-class life in London’s East End. He is also celebrated for his exciting mystery stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, who served as a natural successor to Sherlock Holmes. This comprehensive book presents Morrison’s collection of short stories. The collection includes: „Chance of the Game”, „Spotto’s Reclamation”, „A „Dead ’Un”, „The Di...

Fourth and last collection of detective fiction featuring Martin Hewitt, a famous private detective whose methods closely resemble those of Sherlock Holmes. The plot lines of all six linked sensation stories in this collection center on the mystery of the Red Triangle, a group of villains known only from the Red Triangle left stamped on the heads of their victims, and the actions of Martin Hewitt and his narrator, esteemed journalist Mr. Brett, in bringing the members of th...

The dead body of a beautiful girl in a disused house, the secret meeting room in the cellar, a baffling murder mystery... „The Dagger and Cord” is another mystery by Aidan de Brune (Herbert Charles CULL). It’s all great fun and the author keeps the action moving along swiftly, as he always did. Wonderful entertainment and highly entertaining. If you haven’t discovered the joys of Brune’s mysteries there is a good place to start. Aidan De Brune was a Canadian-born writer who...

„Sixes and Sevens” is a first collection of humorous short stories from the author of „The Four Million”, his stories deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen and waitresses and often use twist endings which turn on an ironic or coincidental circumstance in his stories. O. Henry proves that he is the master of the short story format. This collection has quirky as well as nice little stories, each differing in style from the other. Most of his stories a...

O. Henry’s unique style of writing will introduce you to story filled of mystery, suspense and of course a decision. A decision which will lead a certain main character to three roads of which he must choose from. A collection of 22 short stories: „Roads of Destiny”, „The Guardian of the Accolade”, „The Discounters of Money”, „The Enchanted Profile”, „Next to Reading Matter”, „Art and the Bronco”, „Phobe”, „A Double-dyed Deceiver”, „The Passing of Black Eagle”, „A Retrieved...

Looking for a satisfying, meticulously exciting adventure with which to while away an afternoon? Look no further than „Squadron of the Damned”, a short story from one of the most early writers in the genre of fantasy and science fiction, David Wright O’Brien. O’Brien’s work was space opera or other routine adventure, but many of his stories betray a strain of humor, not unlike Henry Kuttner’s at that time. Some of the stories were co-written with his close friend William P....