One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. This comprehensive work presents a collection of nine short stories, primarily detective fiction of Edgar Wallace. These are largely adventure narratives with elements of cri...

„Fighting Snub Reilly” is one of the mystery story from collection which includes eight short mysteries by Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. There are others: „Jimmy’s Brother”, „The Christmas Cup”, „The Man In The Golf Hut”, „A Romance In Brown”, „The Perfect Gentleman”, „Kid-Glove Harry, „Nig-Nog”. Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In to...

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness’ accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographic...

„Educated Evans” is the first novel in the ’Evans’ series. These stories combine Wallace’s talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. The eponymous principal character is a London racing tipster. Garrulous and delightfully ignorant of most of the subjects about which he professes to have knowledge, Evans provides the comic foil for the towering figure of „The Miller”, a formidable police detective named for his perpetual habit of chewing upon a length of str...

British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallace’s works have been turned into well over 100 films. This early work by Edgar Wallace was ori...

Arnold Long war es, der Shelton gejagt hatte. Inspektor Arnold Long stellt dem Gauner Clay Shelton eine Falle. Shelton wird gefangen und zum Tode durch den Strang verurteilt. Bald nach der Vollstreckung scheinen alle für seinen Tod Verantwortlichen von einem Fluch getroffen: Henker, Richter, Ankläger – alle sterben unter mysteriösen Umständen. Aber da ist noch Inspektor Long von Scotland Yard. Wird Inspektor Long das nächste Opfer des Fluchs? Kann er der Rache des Toten ent...

Cäsar Valentine ist ein Abkömmling der Borgias. Er ist reich, berühmt und sieht blendend aus. Aber einige Leute, die mit ihm in Geschäftsverbindung standen, hatten das Pech plötzlich zu sterben. Aber wer ist der Täter? Hallett von Scotland Yard schickt einen Agenten nach Paris, sein Deckname ist „Nummer Sechs”. Er soll Cäsar Valentine genau unter die Lupe nehmen. Nach einem Jahr hat Hallett monatelang Nichts mehr von „Nummer Sechs” gehört und schickt Sergeant Steel ebenfall...

Stephen Narth ist hochverschuldet. Seine Lage scheint aussichtslos. Doch dann eröffnen sich ihm Möglichkeiten, den drohenden Konkurs noch abzuwenden – einzige Bedingung: Er muss eine seiner weiblichen Verwandten an den mysteriösen Goldminenverwalter Clifford Lynne verheiraten, um an das Erbe des Millionärs Joseph Brays zu kommen. „Zwei Stunden nach Sonnenuntergang wird Clifford Lynne durch das Tor des Wohltätigen Reises nach Siangtan kommen. Tötet ihn und bringt mir alle Pa...

Sokrates Smith to były policjant i pracownik Scotland Yardu, który posiada nie tylko niezwykłe imię, ale także nieprzeciętne zdolności detektywistyczne. Na zaproszenie emerytowanego kolegi z pracy, Johna Mandle’a, przyjeżdża do jego willi wraz z młodszym bratem Lexingtonem. Na miejscu każdy z braci znajduje zajęcie – Sokrates próbuje dowiedzieć się, dlaczego gospodarz żyje w nieustannym strachu o swoje życie, a Lexington dotrzymuje towarzystwa uroczej pasierbicy Mandle’a, Mol...

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“Tarzan and the Ant Men“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
This is the tenth novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.

“The Cave Girl“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a South Seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when he encounters primitive, violent men, ape-like throwba...

“The Mad King“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold, the current king of Lutha, B...

Mały lord Greystoke, osierocony przez rodziców, samotny i kwilący w dzikiej afrykańskiej dżungli, zostaje przygarnięty przez małpią samicę Kalę. Dorasta wśród zwierząt, ucząc się od nich przetrwania. Przez małpy zostaje nazwany Tarzanem, co w ich języku oznacza „biała skóra”. Z czasem chłopiec staje się niemal tak krzepki i zręczny, jak one. Wychodzi zwycięsko z walk z dzikimi zwierzętami i mieszkającymi w pobliżu ludożercami. Wkrótce sprytem, inteligencją i siłą prześcignie...

“A Princess of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris.Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh ...

“The Gods of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the second of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris.Full of swordplay and daring feats, the series is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh de...

“Pirates of Venus“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
Pirates of Venus is a science fantasy novel, the first book in the Venus series. The events occur on a fictionalized version of the planet Venus, known as "Amtor" to its inhabitants. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism.

“The People That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.

“Tarzan of the Apes“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
This novel is the first in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.

Pierwsza część znanej na całym świecie historii Tarzana. Osierocony jako niemowlę w afrykańskiej dżungli John Clayton, jedyne dziecko Lorda i Lady Greystoke, zostaje uratowany małpią samicę Kalę. Dorasta wśród dzikich zwierząt, ucząc się od nich przetrwania. Przez małpy zostaje nazwany Tarzanem, co w ich języku oznacza „Biała Skóra”. Z czasem chłopiec staje się niemal tak krzepki i zręczny, jak one. Zdolny stawić czoła każdemu wrogowi i wygrać każdą walkę zostaje okrzyknięty ...

“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He...

“The Beasts of Tarzan“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
This is the third novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.

“Tarzan the Terrible“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
This is the eighth novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.

“The Chessmen of Mars“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the fifth of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the series is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet wi...