Morrison, a novelist and short-story writer, is most often remembered for a series featuring the detective Martin Hewitt, but before that, he wrote several grim and violent books about life in the London slums. „The Hole in the Wall” is one of the most gripping adventure stories ever written. Stephen Kemp goes to live with his mysterious grandfather after his mother’s death, and is gradually drawn into the seedy world which Captain Nat Kemp inhabits. The author brilliantly ...

A charming thief rescues the not-so-innocent in this delightful crime novel from the creator of the Craig Kennedy detective series. Constance Dunlap is a young woman who turns amateur criminal in order to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesn’t work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More antiheroine than heroine, she uses her photographic memory and her sharp wit to help amateur criminals get back on the rig...

Another classic book of murder mystery and mayhem skillfully written with an in depth journey to find out who really did the evil deed and why. „The Shrieking Pit” is one of Arthur Rees’s earlier works. American private detective Grant Colwyn is on a leisurely holiday in a fashionable seaside hotel in Norfolk when one morning during breakfast the strange behavior of one of the other guests catches his attention. The young man later leaves the hotel without paying his bill, ...

„The War Terror” is a detective novel by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 – August 9, 1936), one of his Craig Kennedy series, often regarded as American Sherlock Holmes. Each story features a fascinating look at life in the early 20th century, and even includes some action along the way. A major spy operation is deployed in the heart of Europe in time of World War II. Detective Kennedy lands right in the middle of it and begins his face off with Nazi secret service. But th...

Enter an American Sherlock Holmes solving crimes in the early twentieth century. Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New York’s premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. It is interesting to see the different cases they take on and how they solve them. Originally published in 1910, these t...

26 czerwca 2000 roku nastąpiły zmiany, które na zawsze zmieniły oblicze biologii i medycyny. Premier Wielkiej Brytanii Tony Blair oraz prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych Bill Clinton wzięli udział w konferencji prasowej za pośrednictwem łączy satelitarnych, aby wspólnie ogłosić zakończenie projektu nad Genomem Człowieka. W dzienniku The New York Times pojawił się wówczas nagłówek: Ludzki kod genetyczny rozszyfrowany przez naukowców. Sekwencja 3 miliardów baz stanowiła punkt kulmi...

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...

Morrison’s most popular books are probably his detective stories, featuring Martin Hewitt, a methodical investigator, who uses his ability to be „thoroughly at home among any and every class of people” to invite confidences in gathering evidence. Martin Hewitt stories are similar in style to those of Conan Doyle, cleverly plotted and very amusing. Morrison made two other forays into the detective field, the first: „The Dorrington Deed-Box”, which introduces the quasi-crimin...

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...

 Niezapomniane, pełne przygód lato w Krainie Jezior Rodzeństwo Walkerów – John, Susan i Titty i Roger – spędza wakacje nad jeziorem. Małą żaglówką nazwaną „Jaskółką” postanawiają dotrzeć na Wyspę Dzikiego Kota. Tam, za zgodą rodziców, zamieszkują. Pod gołym niebem rozbijają obóz, łowią ryby, pływają po czystych wodach jeziora. Pewnego dnia ich spokój zakłóca widok innej żaglówki. To „Amazonka”, na której pod piracką banderą zbliżają się siostry Nancy i Peggy Blackett. Jaskó...

Thrilling detective novel taking place in the Engadine Express from Calais to Lucerne. It is a well-planned, logical detective story of the better sort, free from cheap sensationalism and improbability, developing surely and steadily by means of exciting situations to an unforeseen and satisfactory ending. A mysterious woman, followed by two detectives, shows up at the last minute to book a compartment for her servant, an infant and herself. The lady is afraid that someone ...

„A Child of the Jago” is London-born journalist Arthur Morrison’s best known novel. It was first published in November 1896 and is set in a fictional East End slum known as the Jago, which Morrison based a real district called the Old Nichol. The novel recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, who is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. The Perrott family, and their friends and enemies, must struggle for their very survival in the hars...

A railroad Vice President and his chauffeur have sudden and mysterious seizures on the way to work; a family in New York city undergoes an epidemic of beri-beri; the American consul in the Virgin Islands collapses and dies for no apparent reason; a Wall Street speculator is apparently stabbed to death with a rubber dagger. Who other than Craig Kennedy, armed with his knowledge of chemistry, technology and Freudian psychology could solve these mysteries? This mystery/detecti...

The fifth volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures. Craig Kennedy continues to amaze with his usual sorts of crimes – jewel theft, missing persons, wrongly accused suspects, fixed horse races, arson, murder, and blackmail – but he uses scientific procedures to analyze the evidence, sometimes involving fantastical devices. „The Social Gangster” is the story focused on a mysteri...

Odkryj wielką moc chmur obliczeniowych i potencjał, jaki kryją w sobie! Co to jest chmura obliczeniowa? Kiedy korzystać z chmur, a kiedy ich unikać? Jak oszacować koszty korzystania z chmury obliczeniowej? Jeszcze parę lat temu udostępnienie dużej, popularnej aplikacji wiązało się z ogromnymi wydatkami na infrastrukturę. Konieczne było posiadanie własnej serwerowni, wynajmowanie przestrzeni w centrum danych lub uciekanie się do innych kosztownych rozwiązań. W tej chwili na ...

Obsypana nagrodami - Nebula, BSFA, Hugo, Nagroda Campbella, Nagroda Locusa i Nagroda Jupitera - klasyczna powieść science fiction. Niezwykle pomysłowa i budząca podziw odpowiedź na zawsze aktualne pytanie: czy jesteśmy sami we wszechświecie? - „The Guardian” Odkąd w 2077 roku duża asteroida uderzyła w Ziemię, powodując ogromne straty materialne i zabijając setki tysięcy ludzi, astronomowie bacznie śledzą ruchy wszystkich takich obiektów. Gdy blisko sześćdziesiąt lat późni...

Who else could have so quickly connected a partial sheet of music wrapped around a rock and tossed through a sitting room window with an infamous decades-old robbery? Would anyone else have taken seriously the fears of an eccentric old woman who swore thieves were after her most prized possession: a snuffbox fashioned from the actual wood of Noah’s Ark? England’s greatest crime-solver Martin Hewitt uses his superior intellect and genial charm to unmask thieves, murderers, a...

The second collection of 12 of the early Craig Kennedy mysteries, written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve and published in 1912. His Craig Kennedy stories, of which these are early examples, earned their main character the nickname „the American Sherlock Holmes,” both for his highly rational and analytical detective work as well as for his ever-present Dr. Watson-like companion Walter Jameson. They solve crimes using cutting-edge technology of the early twentieth century with vary...

When her mother dies, Cinderella’s father remarries and now she lives with her new family; her father, new mother and two new wicked sisters. They are mean and unkind to Cinderella and she is treated no better than a house servant, cooking and cleaning for everyone else.One day the two sisters are invited to a great ball to be given by the king and queen. Cinderella is unfortunately excluded.Sitting sad and alone at home, she is visited by a great fairy! Her fairy godmo...

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Fascynująca mieszanka technologii i człowieczeństwa sięgająca tajemnic wszechświata i głębi ludzkiej duszy. - „Chicago Tribune” Poprawione i uzupełnione wydanie trzeciego tomu klasycznej serii SF Rama II przetrwał atak rakietowy z Ziemi i opuścił Układ Słoneczny, a wraz z nim troje członków załogi Newtona. Nicole des Jardins, Richard Wakefield i Peter O’Toole są sami, zdani na własne siły i pozbawieni przyszłości. Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnościom starają się jednak prz...

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TRZECI TOM WIZJONERSKIEJ SERII, KANONU LITERATURY SCIENCE FICTION. Clarke pozostaje mistrzem w opisywaniu wszechświata, łączącym wierność naukowym faktom z pisarskim artyzmem. - „The New York Times Book Review” Pięćdziesiąt lat po transformacji Jowisza w drugie słońce Ziemi stutrzyletni doktor Heywood Floyd wchodzi na pokład luksusowego statku Universe, by po raz pierwszy w dziejach wylądować na komecie Halleya. W tym samym czasie Galaxy wyrusza, by zbadać tajemnice ew...