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Another fast-paced murder mystery by J.S. Fletcher told in the first person. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the „Golden Age”. It was first published in 1920, and has just the right stock of truly good characters, balanced by a couple of nasties. A young apprentice solicitor in a rural English town bordering Scotland, is riding his bike through lonely stretches of...

This novel takes place in the London parish of Paddington. The story opens with the murder of an old Jewish pawnbroker. Our Scottish hero, Andrew Lauriston, a penniless aspiring writer, has the misfortune of finding the body, and is accused of killing and robbing the old man. But then it’s found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand pounds – a diamond that’s now missing. It falls to Melky Rubenstein to unr...

Viner stumbles upon the body of a murdered man whilst just following through his ordinary day routines. Little does he know that this find would make him a key figure in solving a big mystery. Well its soon discovered that the murdered man’s name was Ashton and some important documents were stolen from him, but the true purpose for killing him and his real identity and that of his charge, make for a rather excitingly interesting murder-mystery... Nevertheless, Mr. Fletcher ...

Pat is a beautiful young woman with many admirers. Nick is a young man with a secret. When his dark side interferes with their burgeoning love, things turn grim, and psychologist Carl Horker has to intervene. The plot wraps up in a way that the coming Hollywood would approve of, and with a deus ex machina that a theater would envy. Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but...

Charlie Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, is modeled after Chang Apana, a real-life police detective in Honolulu. A family originally from Boston, the Winterslips, has some members living in Hawaii. You can almost feel the gentle trade winds of Hawaii during the 1920s in this classic novel by Earl Derr Biggers. One of the wealthy Winterslips living in Hawaii is murdered. A younger member of the family, John Quincy Winterslip, has been sent to Boston to check ...

A quaint and idyllic English community is rocked to its very core when a dead body of a man is found and foul play is suspected. Did he fall or was he pushed? The inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure but more than one person is dubious about the death. But with few clues to go on and no likely suspects, it appears that the brutal crime may remain unsolved. There’s another murder, lots of behind the scenes investigation into burial and marriage records, questio...

Fans of golden-era mysteries will relish the twists and turns of J. S. Fletcher’s „The Chestermarke Instinct”. This cleverly crafted mystery begins with what seems like a common enough occurrence: a bank manager is late for work one morning. But what first appears to be simply a matter of a missed train soon is revealed to be a much more vexing problem. Has the manager, formerly a pillar of honesty, absconded with the missing bank’s items, or has something more sinister occ...

„The Borough Treasurer” (1921) by J.S. Fletcher is a tale of blackmail, murder and a secret quarry. He has quite a large cast of interesting characters in this one, and manages to bring them all to life with great detail. This novel tales place in an obscure small town by the Yorkshire moors – an ideal spot for two ex-cons to start life over. Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and...

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...

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 ...

Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to be traveling so far and in such a hurry, but Allerdyke’s mind is elsewhere. When he finally arrives in Hull, he finds his cousin dead in his hotel room and a valuable consignment of jewels missing. Allerdyke’s only clue rests with that woman hurrying off to Scot...

When an elderly man’s body is found on the steps of chambers in the Midde Temple, one of the Inns of Court, it falls to newspaperman Frank Spargo and Detective-Sergeant Rathbury to solve the crime. There is no indication as to the idetity of the corpse, whose pockets are completely empty apart from a scrap of paper bearing the names and chambers address of an aspiring young barrister. Who is the victim? Why was he killed? Who is the murderer? These are the questions that Sp...

No sooner had Bob from the Silver Star ranch reached Italy than a telegram arrived asking for $1,000. A pretty woman was behind it, but that wasn’t all. This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916. „The Ebony Stick” is one of Biggers shorter stories, published after his death. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. While on holiday in Hawaii, Bigger...

Czterem przyjaciółkom znanym z „Czterdzieści minus” przybyło kilka lat, dwoje dzieci i jeden pies. Czy to pora na nudną stabilizację? W żadnym razie! Prawdziwe życie dopiero się zaczyna, a Magda, Anita, Karolina i Aśka są przecież specjalistkami od kłopotów. W „Czterdzieści plus” zamiast nudy czeka nas ucieczka do Londynu, pojednanie z trudną przeszłością, nieoczekiwana przeprowadzka i nadzieja na prawdziwą miłość. Poleje się dużo wina i jeszcze więcej łez, ale będzie moż...

Geoffrey West falls in love at first sight with a girl in a hotel breakfasting with her father. They’re all Americans, but the scene is London on the eve of the Great War. Both Geoffrey and his ladylove Marian are reading the personals (The Agony Column) of the Daily Mail. Later that day he has an idea to place an ad to catch her attention, and vows to send her a letter each day for a week to win her heart. Each letter becomes more interesting than the previous because West...

The basic plot of this book is built around the reputation the Lloyds of London insurance firm had for ensuring all manner of unlikely propositions. Lord Harrowby is advised to marry a wealthy heiress. Luckily he meets Cynthia. She is rich, beautiful and willing to marry him. But, since he comes from a family of gamblers, he goes to Lloyds of London and takes an insurance policy to ensure his bride makes to the alter. Lloyds sends a handsome young man to make sure nothing s...

Earl Derr Biggers’ second Charlie Chan novel took the detective to the California desert where he uncovers the reason for the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire. Biggers was always a great romance writer who simply incorporated mystery into his books to propel the story forward. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. Charlie Chan embarks on an incognito journey across the desert to find the answer to a ...

One of the most thrilling novel ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modern times. A hotel closed for the winter, a snowy night, our hero and a key begin this delightful mystery. As we soon learn, our hero looking only for solitude, isn’t the only one with a key. Other colorful characters arrive one by one... men and women with stories of love, loss, and...

Just as in Biggers’ first Charlie Chan mystery, „The House Without a Key,” that romantic link between the Hawaii of a different era and the city of San Francisco is explored and holds the key to the mystery. Henry Drew has cheated young Winthrop out of a partnership in a Hunan mine. Other shady deeds abound in the past of this rich and outwardly respectable old man. Despite his antagonism to Drew, Winthrop accepts the old man’s invitation to a birthday dinner, mainly to be ...

Od kresów wschodnich po zachodnie, ale nieodmiennie w cieniu gałęzi czarnego bzu wciąż umierają i rodzą się miłość, zło, przebaczenie i zawiść. Czy o trudnej polskiej historii można pisać w duchu Hrabala? Z przewrotną niewinnością, czarnym humorem, a zarazem bystrością wnikliwego obserwatora rzeczywistości? W tej opowieści-balladzie z kresowym zaśpiewem, historia rodzinna, najmniejsza i osobista, przeplata się wielką historią, która jednak pozostaje tu tylko tłem, ...

Własnością młodego małżeństwa staje się stara, zagadkowa szafa. Barbara, której przeszłość też skrywa wiele tajemnic, pragnie odkryć, kim byli pierwsi właściciele antyku. Trafia do Sławkowa, miejscowości leżącej w Zagłębiu Dąbrowskim, tam dowiaduje się, że mebel należał do rodziny żydowskiej. Dalsze poszukiwania doprowadzają Barbarę do Mikołaja, pasjonata historii i opiekuna żydowskiego cmentarza. Z płyt nagrobnych i starych dokumentów powoli odsłania się historia Sary, ż...

Wszystko się tu pomieszało i bardziej przypomina majaczenie chorego, pijacki sen niż pamięć. Ale jest pamięcią, jest przeszłością, jest tu i teraz. Jak gdyby patrzeć jednocześnie przez okulary do bliży i do dali. Śmierć i dzieciństwo idą ramię w ramię. Zgarbiony Bułat Okudżawa z marną rosyjską gitarą, siekierkowski Izajasz, pisarz w drodze, Grażyna, której ciała nie starcza do tego, by ją nazywać Grażyną, pijany listonosz, kulawy Bartek, kot i dziadek, pan Gerber, który ...

Przejmująca opowieść o miłości i determinacji matki pragnącej uratować zaginiona córkę Twarda i niezależna Myra mieszka z córką na niewielkiej łodzi. Na ląd schodzi tylko po to, żeby wymieniać się zapasami i informacjami. W wyniku zmian klimatycznych zachował się jedynie archipelag kolonii, utworzony ze szczytów górskich i otoczony bezkresną przestrzenią otwartej wody. Świat stał się nieprzyjazny i okrutny, a przeżycie w nim podstawowym celem tych, którzy przetrwali...

Alayna i Hudson wracają w nowym tomie elektryzującej serii Uwikłani!Po wielu burzliwych przejściach Alayna i Hudson prowadzą spokojne rodzinne życie. Wszystko do czasu, gdy Chandler oznajmia, że zamierza się ożenić. Jego wybranką jest córka Edwarda Fasbendera, a to może oznaczać tylko jedno…Ich sielankę przerywa żona Edwarda, Celia. Kobieta, która zrobi wszystko, aby wystawić na próbę trwałość rodziny Pierce’ów. Na dodatek Hudson otrzymuje tajemniczy list z pogróżkami.Hudson ...