Młody Eryk Deryło i Zagadkowi Agenci na tropie wielkiego skarbu! TRZECI, WAKACYJNY TOM SERII KSIĄŻEK DLA DZIECI MAKSA CZORNYJA, AUTORA BESTSELLEROWYCH KRYMINAŁÓW.W trakcie porządkowania antykwariatu Zagadkowi Agenci trafiają na niezwykłą wiadomość. Wiele wskazuje, że jest to szyfr prowadzący do tajemniczego skarbu. Zagadkowi Agenci postanawiają wyruszyć w niebezpieczną podróż, ale ktoś od początku stara się im w niej przeszkodzić. Znajdą się w ogromnym niebezpieczeństwie ...

The Montana Kid, „El Keed” south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protection. In Duraya, Montana and Rubriz have no problem getting into the governor’s fort, even finding the crown. It’s the getting out that nearly undoes them!

Kildare saves the life of a skater who had a car accident. But even though her leg is broken, she cannot walk, and she is trying to sue Kildare for negligence, and Kildare’s entire career and reputation are now based on the correct diagnosis in the courtroom.

Lucky Bill has the reputation of a natural battler, but he is not a cold-blooded killer. Then Bill finds himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, and plenty of greenhorns and gringos set their sights on collecting the price on his head. He’s wanted by every tin star in the West and by every greedy gunslinger out for the price they can get for his no-good corpse. But Bill refuses to turn tail and run. Renowned Old West gunslinger Bi...

„Larramee’s Ranch” is another great and entertaining Max Brand novel! This is quite a change of pace for Max Brand. His hero Tom Holden is a bookish young man with a bad leg, no money, and no experience with firearms. When he sets out to make his fortune, he has no real prospects but through a series of bluffs he outwits a killer, faces down a town bully, makes a considerable bundle of money for himself. Then he announces he will marry Alexa Larrame, the beautiful blue-eyed d...

After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene’s sole legacy to his son is a Bible, so with his father’s passing, Tom renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to preach to others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. But Tom Keene’s good intentions are about to cost him more than he knows... Tom is...

Another great tale by Frederick Schiller Faust who was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary westerns under the pen name Max Brand! The Kid was a lawman’s worst nightmare. A fearsome gun-for-hire, he was a legend written in blood and carved in the tombstones of the men he killed. But this time he was facing an old enemy from his twisted past – a man who had survived his bullet and lived for vengeance. This story filled with excitement, suspense, g...

Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) is one of the greatest early Western writers who has been labeled „one of the top three Western novelists of all time” and „Speedy’s Bargain” is one of 9 „Speedy” stories that have seen print in various collections. „Speedy’s Bargain” features „Speedy,” Brand’s atypical western man of action who carries no gun and relies on his wits and psychological insights to stop crooks in their tracks. In it, an outlaw holds a family at gunpoint, thre...

Superstar pulpsmith Max Brand was best known for his Westerns, but his historical adventures rank among the best stories he ever wrote. He wrote somewhere around 12 or 13 historical swashbucklers not including the seven Tizzo stories. The complete tales of Tizzo the Firebrand contains the 7 stories. „The Great Betrayal” is one of it. The series is set in early 16th Century Italy. Luigi Falcone had taken in red haired street urchin Tizzo outside of the city of Perugia. Raised ...

A good classic western by Max Brand (Frederick Faust) about the famous outlaw King Bird. The King Bird, a young, reckless and mystery bandit, whose definition of happiness is freedom, the best horse, a wonderful girl, faces difficult choices when he attempts to save an old friend’s runaway daughter from a dangerous gang of robbers. „The King Bird Rides” is a fast moving, exciting, plenty of gun play and adventure. Max Brand’s action-filled stories of adventure and heroism in ...

Accused, tried, and convicted of robbery and murder that he did not commit, Jim Seton rotted in jail for five long years. Although the townspeople said he was lucky not to hang, that wasn’t how Jim saw it. He didn’t take kindly to being railroaded. Now he was free and ready. He was an innocent man who’d been sent to hell, and he was ready, willing, and able to return the favor. „The Return of the Rancher „ is a classical western excitement at its very best by a master of the ...

He was smiling continually, with such an air of removal above the concerns of ordinary mortals, with such an upward lifting of the head, that his fellows in the boat had called him, from the first day of labor and thirst, „The Saint.” This novelette filled with excitement, suspense, good guys and bad, and plot twists aplenty! Brand is a masterful story teller, slowly revealing his main characters’ unique idiosyncrasies, strengths and weaknesses that make them both human and a...

An exciting saga of danger, adventure, and romance on the Western frontier. Bill Lancaster was a dangerous man that no one dared mess with. He was fast with a gun, deadly with his fists, and a bully who never let you forget who was tougher. Young Dan Cadigan however refused to be pushed. Mistaken for a quiet weakling, no one expected him to stand up to Bill Lancaster. Fighting him with his fists he made Lancaster realize that someone was tougher than he was. Desperate he used...

The stories, united under the name „Through Russia”, were originally printed by M. Gorky in various periodicals and collections. In the series of short stories „In Russia”. M. Gorky refers to the image of the „past in order to illuminate the paths to the future.” The writer reflected the harsh truth of the life of „little great people”, life-giving and decorating the earth with their labor.

Tate rozstał się z ukochaną Gemmą, sądząc, że go zdradziła. Dwa lata później dowiedział się, że ma z nią syna. Postawił warunek: albo Gemma zostanie jego żoną, albo on odbierze jej dziecko. Małżeństwo miało być jedynie spełnieniem obowiązku, bo już nie ufał Gemmie. Wkrótce jednak odkrył, że jego dawne pożądanie wobec niej wcale nie wygasło...  

1913. „The Devil’s Garden” is a popular classic work by W. B. Maxwell. The main character in this story is William Dale who is Postmaster of Rodhaven. He is introduced as an honest peasant of uncompromising temper, whose rough nature is ever softened by his pretty wife Mavis. Dale’s evening in London is transformed into a catastrophe when he learns a past secret about Mavis that threatens his marriage. Confronted with this secret, Will and Mavis struggle to make their marri...

Już przeszłość zamknięta W grobach... Ja sama panią tajemnicy. Juliusz Słowacki, „Balladyna”, Akt V, Scena IV Balladyna ma wiele oblicz. Raz odcina głowę, bo taki ma kaprys; innym razem potrafi zabić po cichu, a winę zrzucić na kogoś innego. Jest pełna nienawiści i nie przebiera w środkach w dążeniu do realizacji swoich planów. Manipuluje, kłamie, oszukuje, zabija. Zło kusi ją od dziecka. Ma bardzo dobrą pamięć i nie zna litości. Czasem skryw...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable short novel „Chip And The Cactus Man „. Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the novel also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. The plot is well constructed with well drawn subsidiary characters and provides a number of interesting twists. Faust wrote more than 500 novels and over 400 short stories & novella...

"Najlepsza jednotomowa historia II wojny światowej, jaką kiedykolwiek napisano." - Sunday Times Jak II wojnę światową relacjonowałyby dzisiejsze media? Czy na podstawie wydarzeń sprzed lat da się stworzyć porywającą narrację, która sprawi, że czytelnik niemal przenosi się w czasie i ląduje w samym centrum wydarzeń? Sir Max Hastings - brytyjski historyk i jeden z najwyżej cenionych korespondentów wojennych na świecie - opisał historię największego konfliktu zbrojnego u...

Co to jest „Barbie Pussy”? Czy warto poddać się liposukcji? Brazylijski Lifting Pośladków - tłuszcz czy implanty? Czy można na stałe zmienić kolor oczu? Jak wyszczuplić twarz? Odpowiedzi na te i mnóstwo innych pytań znajdziecie w książce „Beautyfikacja”. Autorka, która poznała na własnej skórze tajniki medycyny estetycznej i chirurgii plastycznej, w rzeczowy sposób opisuje nie tylko zabiegi popularne w Polsce, ale i te, które jeszcze do naszego kraju nie dotarły, prz...

Max Brand (1892–1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman „Pepillo” (1927). Der ebenso spannende wie actionreiche Western handelt von einer mörderischen Bande von Viehdieben, die ausgerechnet einen ehemaligen Sheriff ausraubt. Der Sheriff schwört auf Rache und setzt Kitchin auf die Bande an – Kitchin ist der taffste ...

Max Brand (1892–1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Max Brand erzählt sachkundig und mit viel Gefühl die Geschichte eines Bull terriers(der weiße wolf),der in den Rocky Mountains bei Wölfen aufwächst. Es wird der Überlebenskampf des Hundes bis zur Rückehr zu den Menschen beschrieben. Nicht nur für Bullterrier – Freunde, sondern für alle Hundefreunde ein sehr schönes Geschen...

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his Western fiction. Raised on the tough streets of Old New York, Gregg could beat a man to death with his fists and use a pistol like an artist. Armed with these talents, he headed west to make his fortune, never realizing that herding mustangs was what he’d end up doing. He didn’t know a lot abo...

Frederick Schiller Faust penned his finest when he wrote his literary famous Westerns utilizing the pen name Max Brand. „Donnegan Gunman’s Reckoning” has a thoughtful storyline which is enough to hold your interest throughout the book. Solitary, mysterious figure Donnegan is on the run from his past. The last thing he has time for is love. But like all matters of the heart, sometimes emotions bloom when they are least convenient – as they do the first time Donnegan encounte...