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Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as „Bones”. It is a time when the world’s most powerful nations are vying for colonial honor, a time of trading steamers and tribal chiefs. In the mysterious African territories administ...

„Big Foot” is a 1927 crime novel by Edgar Wallace. This is one of the most significant of his works because of the character Sooper, a detective from Metropolitan Guard. Footprints and a dead woman bring together Superintendent Minter and the amateur sleuth Mr. Cardew. Who is the man in the shrubbery? Who is the singer of the haunting Moorish tune? Both Sooper and Cardew are anxious to solve the mystery of Big Foot, an ingenious murderer who always seems to stay one step ah...

More adventures of Edgar Wallace’s most popular characters, Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, & Merrell better known to the underworld as the dreaded Three Just Men – dedicated to punishing those whom the law cannot touch, in England, Europe, and America. „Again the Three” consists of 13 short stories: „The Rebus”, „The Happy Travellers”, „The Abductor”, „The Third Coincidence”, „The Slane Mystery”, „The Marked Cheque”, „Mr. Levingrou’s Daughter”, „The Share Pusher”, „The Ma...

„Angel Esquire” (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the ...

Seventeen short stories featuring that master of disguise, Henry Arthur Milton, known as „The Ringer”. An exiting page-tuner full of intrigue and mystery, „Again the Ringer” is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 – 1932) was a prolific English writer. During his lifetime, he wrote 18 stage plays, 957 short stories, numerous articles in newspapers and journals and over 160 films have been made of his novels. He was an imme...

This collection of episodes in the Commissioner Sanders series continues Wallace’s subtly humorous look at colonial Africa. In „Bones”, Wallace spins an engaging yarn about the adventures of an intrepid lieutenant as he travels through Africa on a series of life-or-death missions. When Commissioner Sanders goes on leave, the trusty Lieutenant Hamilton takes over administration of the African territories. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Francis Augustus Tibbetts, known...

The name, Edgar Wallace, threads through early twentieth century crime fiction like a stream that turns out to be a lot deeper and wider than you thought. This is one of his works. A thrilling tale of commerce and intrigue starring Barbara, god-daughter and Private Secretary to Mr. Maber. Unlike the old-fashioned Maber & Maber department store, the modern Atterman’s store is a successful, profitable business. At a take-over meeting Barbara gives Messers Atterman and Min...

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as ’’Bones’’ to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. A mischievous businessman, he seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a s...

Wyobraź sobie życie, w którym ciągle musisz grać kogoś innego. Tkwisz w zaklętym kręgu przemian: co trzy miesiące nowe imię i nazwisko, nowy kolor oczu i włosów, nowe plany na przyszłość, nowe mieszkanie… Zola Henderson i jej ciotka Camilla wiedzą, jak to jest, gdy tracisz tożsamość. Od siedmiu lat razem uciekają przed demonami przeszłości. Wcielając się w coraz to inne osoby, nie posiadają niczego na stałe, a ich życie jest jedną wielką iluzją. Wszystko zaczyna się zmi...

Posiadanie wewnętrznej mocy powoduje, że nie musimy dostosowywać się do świata, nie oczekujemy też, że świat dostosuje się do nas. Jesteśmy wolne od konieczności bezustannego udowadniania swojej wartości – innym i sobie. Przestajemy też zajmować się przekonywaniem innych ludzi, że mamy rację. Im większa nasza wewnętrzna moc, tym bardziej jesteśmy odporne na krytykę, zranienia, stosowane przez innych manipulacje. Nasza wewnętrzna moc powoduje, że nie mamy potrzeby kryty...

Renata, pochodząca z małej wsi na Kaszubach studentka filozofii, żyje beztrosko, a kolejne dni upływają jej na pisaniu doktoratu i opiece nad psem. Nic nie zapowiada przełomu w jej życiu, aż do momentu gdy dziewczyna niespodziewanie zostaje... mamą czteroletniego chłopca, synka jej śmiertelnie chorej siostry. Przerażona macierzyńskimi obowiązkami, wie, że nie może się poddać. A to dopiero początek serii zaskakujących wydarzeń, jakie przygotował dla niej los! Wkrótce bow...

Kiedy podczas warsztatów archeologicznych w muzeum Piotrek znajduje tajemnicze drewienko, nie przypuszcza, że właśnie wszedł w posiadanie narzędzia do przenoszenia się w czasie. Razem ze starszym bratem Tomkiem wyruszają w podróż do średniowiecza czasów Mieszka I, któremu towarzyszą w najważniejszych momentach życia. Stają się świadkami postrzyżyn księcia, jego chrztu i poznają historię najważniejszych bitew. Chłopcy przekonują się, że w każdej legendzie tkwi ziarno prawdy… K...

Uczył się sztuki wojennej w warszawskiej Szkole Rycerskiej, walczył o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych, przyjaźnił z przyszłym prezydentem tego kraju i z... wodzem Indian. Po powrocie do ojczyzny został obwołany naczelnikiem powstania przeciw Rosji i Prusom napastującym Polskę. Bohater dwóch krajów, o których wolność walczył: Polski i Stanów Zjednoczonych. Wielki zwolennik wolności, równości i braterstwa wszystkich ludzi. Kiedy mama oznajmia Antosiowi, że spędzi wakacj...

Uczył się sztuki wojennej w warszawskiej Szkole Rycerskiej, walczył o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych, przyjaźnił z przyszłym prezydentem tego kraju i z... wodzem Indian. Po powrocie do ojczyzny został obwołany naczelnikiem powstania przeciw Rosji i Prusom napastującym Polskę. Bohater dwóch krajów, o których wolność walczył: Polski i Stanów Zjednoczonych. Wielki zwolennik wolności, równości i braterstwa wszystkich ludzi. Kiedy mama oznajmia Antosiowi, że spędzi wakacj...

Kiedy podczas warsztatów archeologicznych w muzeum Piotrek znajduje tajemnicze drewienko, nie przypuszcza, że właśnie wszedł w posiadanie narzędzia do przenoszenia się w czasie. Razem ze starszym bratem Tomkiem wyruszają w podróż do średniowiecza czasów Mieszka I, któremu towarzyszą w najważniejszych momentach życia. Stają się świadkami postrzyżyn księcia, jego chrztu i poznają historię najważniejszych bitew. Chłopcy przekonują się, że w każdej legendzie tkwi ziarno prawdy… K...

Alva Collins, the mentally unbalanced wife of airline pilot Evan Collins, wants her husband to leave his job. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate. However, she is tragically killed when someone throws a hive of bees into her bedroom. Police deduce that whoever was responsible knew that Alva was allergic to the insects, and suspicion immediately falls on her husband. This earl...

Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, „When the Gangs Came to London” is rated as one of Edgar Wallace’s best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburs...

„Again Sanders” is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. The situation appears calm in the colonial area of the Sanders. But dark clouds are gathering on the horizon and the Captain Hamilton and the inexperienced Lieutenant Bones need to pass some exciting adventure before you can enjoy life on the power again. The tales are all loosely connected and center on Lt. Augustus „Bones” Tibbetts. Part of his famous „African novels” („Sanders of the River”...

English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles. In the 1920s, one of Wallace’s publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. He was known during his lifetime for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, „"The Four Just Men"”, „"The Ringer"”, and for creating the Green Archer character. He is most famous today as the co-creator of King Kong. „"A King by Night"” is...

Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Just Men”, „Sanders of the River”, and „J. G. Reeder”. Although Wallace wrote many „stand alone” novels it is, perhaps, for his series based material always popular with readers that he remains best known. „The Worst Man in the World” is an entertaining tale of mystery and intrigue, this volume constitutes a must-read for lovers of crime fiction. Althou...

Thomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries – perfect except for the missing Treasury sign. When Verity meets her new employer she develops serious misgivings, and arriving back home she can hear a menacing voice. „"A Debt Discharged"” is a novel about forged dollar bills and a young girl’s investigations into her suspicious new employer. These we...

This book belongs to the pen of a well-known British author of mystery genre Edgar Wallace and was written during the Great War (the WW1). It is set in a possible 1925, ten years after the war has ended. Wallace utilized his experiences of the Boer War in two Future-War novels „Private Selby” and „1925: The Story of a Fatal Peace”. „1925” accurately predicts that a short peace would be followed by a German attack on England. As you get closer to the end you wonder how on ea...

„The Yellow Snake” is an entertaining and breathtaking 1926 thriller by the master of mystery Edgar Wallace. Fing-Su is a graduate of Oxford and head of the dread Society of the Joyful Hands, which he leads in his quest to dominate the world. The name „Yellow Snake” was bestowed on him by his opponent, Clifford Lynne. A bit more practical than Fu Manchu, Fing-Su employs terrestrial strategies like blackmail, bribery, and kidnapping to further his own nefarious aims. Under h...

An Edgar Wallace detective thriller novel. The plot revolves around the nephew of a small town English doctor who takes over his uncle’s practice and runs into trouble with a religious fanatic. This book is in a new vein for Edgar Wallace, for it is not a story of mystery but a real novel, and goes to show where his versatility could take him if he wished, for „Those Folk of Bulboro” proves him to be the possessor of all the requisite gifts which go to make the really popul...