Captain Jan Henderson master of the cargo ship Henrietta Anne trading between London and Holland is working with mysterious conspirators (Sir Gregory Fawsitt and Lady Judith Martellon) to smuggle goods from Holland to London. His deck boy, David, falls in love with Judy, a pretty dancer. When Anthony Loman, an haggard traveler, staggers up the stairs of the tenement house at Bunter’s Buildings, Judy listens while he is flung to his death. As Police Sergeant Sanders’ investi...

A mystery story that involves the revolution in Portugal. Arnold Chetwode never intended to become involved in international intrigue. Arnold, a gently born young man in impecunious circumstances, toils as a lowly, ill-paid clerk in the prosperous London firm run by Mr. Weatherley, he is industrious but common merchant. A surprising invitation puts him at the right time and place to be a witness to a public murder. His employer and employer’s family are involved in the afte...

In this remarkable 1927 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a great conference has been called in London to renegotiate the war debt. It is clear that Germany is suffering, and all of Europe is affected. The great Financier Felix Dukane is in London with his beautiful daughter Estelle. It is rumored that he stands ready to loan Germany One Billion Pounds if the conference is able to limit the total debt. The outcome of the conference hinges on military and industrial secrets. T...

This early work from the „prince of storytellers” E. Phillips Oppenheim published as a novel in 1897. Mr. Norman Scott is a young, hardworking, distinguished physician with a busy practice in London. He is called to visit a patient, Mr. Humphrey Deignton, who suffers from gout and who is murdered later. Dr. Scott is suspected. Two years later, we meet Mr. John Martin, postmaster and chemist in Market Deignton. A lonely, bitter, impoverished man. He is living near the home o...

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British writer known for his thriller novels. He is credited with writing over 100 novels including suspense, international intrigue, romance, parables, and comedies. His protagonists are known for their love of luxury, gourmet meals, and their enjoyment of criminal activities. „The Pawns Count” is a novel during World War I and intrigue. German, Japanese, British and Americans play roles in this novel. A chemist, Sandy Graham, has discovered a n...

Turmoil over Thurlow House. The new tenant of the garden house has barely moved in when a grisly murder happens. Is Mister Brown, the new tenant guilty? Who is he, anyway? His past is shrouded in mystery and nobody seems to know anything about him other than that he is wealthy? Strange things continue to happen... „The New Tenant” is a devious mystery from the „the prince of storytellers” Phillips Oppenheim who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. Very much in the gen...

Elegantly written novel, which tells about a young man who can not forgive his newly found father, because he left him and his mother. But after many living trials in many ways teach them both, they realize that there are other more important priorities and forces. A pleasant, easy-to-read, and thought-out essay.

Matravers is „an Apostle of Aestheticism” with „fixed views of life, down to even it’s most trifling details.” „A poet, philosopher, and man of fashion” who has „no intimate friends.” He writes for the London papers and reviews. One evening he is taken to the theater by a friend to see a „Norwegian” play by Istein, which he savages in his review. However the actress who plays the lead, Berenice, is brilliant, and is the same woman with whom he has been exchanging coy glance...

Król polski Aleksander Jagiellończyk i jego małżonka Helena Rurykowiczówna to postacie, które w naszej historii traktowane są po macoszemu. Poza wąskim gronem specjalistów i miłośników historii nikt o nich nie pamięta, za to są tacy, którzy woleliby, aby właśnie o nich nie pamiętano. A przecież stanowili niezwykłą parę: zakochaną w sobie bez pamięci, do ostatnich chwil swego życia; nadto Helena w zgodnej opinii współczesnych była najpiękniejszą kobietą swojej epoki. Skąd zat...

W tej historii sporo jest fikcji stworzonej na potrzeby powieści, ale ona wydarzyła się naprawdę. Gdzieś, komuś i dawno temu. Jest rok 1941. Niespełna szesnastoletnia Helena wraz z dwójką przyrodniego rodzeństwa zostaje zabrana z domu rodzinnego, rzekomo na badania. Rzeczywistość okazuje się jednak bardziej brutalna, ponieważ cała trójka trafia do ośrodka Lebensborn mieszczącego się na terenie zachodniej Polski. W ośrodku Helena zostaje pomocą kucharki, a jej młodsze ...

W dalekiej Boliwii zamordowana została polska wolontariuszka Helena Kmieć. Na rocznicę jej tragicznej śmierci powstała pierwsza książka o tej niezwykłej młodej dziewczynie, która zapłaciła najwyższą cenę za życie w praktyce wartościami ewangelicznymi.Sam tytuł książki to słowa ks. bp. Jana Zająca, wujka Heleny. Mówi wiele o głębokim przekonaniu bliskich wolontariuszki o jej świętości. Historia Heleny Kmieć to świadectwo pięknego życia. Uśmiechnięta, rozśpiewana, życzliwa... W...

Święta Helena: skalista wysepka oddalona o tysiące mil od najbliższego wybrzeża, pilnie strzeżona przez brytyjską marynarkę wojenną. Nigdy nikt nie został zamknięty w bardziej odległym i niedostępnym więzieniu niż Napoleon Bonaparte po swojej klęsce pod Waterloo. W roku 1819 Markiza Delfina de Sabran i jej kochanek, znakomity pisarz François-René de Chateaubriand, odwiedzają cesarza na wyspie na krańcu świata, gdzie cesarz ostatnie lata swojego życia spędza w angielskim aresz...

Helena od wieków była i jest jednym z najpopularniejszych imion. Wabi magicznym czarem: po grecku imię to oznacza „blask Księżyca”. Srebrny Glob był źródłem fascynacji, wyobrażeń i uosobieniem bogiń Selene i Luny w mitologii greckiej i rzymskiej. Zaobserwowano też związek miesięcznej dolegliwości kobiecej ze zmniejszaniem się lub powiększaniem tarczy Księżyca, tym bardziej więc skojarzono go z tajemnicą kobiecości. A także z seksem. Akt miłosny na ogół odbywał się nocą, właś...

Helen Vardon narrates her own story and one in which Dr. Thorndyke barely features until the final chapters. Helen Vardon contracts to a marriage without full knowledge of the circumstances regarding her father’s financial status. This leads to a dastardly trail of intrigue and deception and ends in murder. Dr. Thorndyke appears at the eleventh hour but does he save the day? Dr. Thornedyke is left to piece together the clues in this enticing mystery. This novel is a departu...

Nie jest to książka dla dzieci, co może sugerować okładka, jeśli wśród kolorowych obrazków ktoś przeoczył kieliszki… Bohaterka książki – Helena - to niekliniczny przypadek schizofrenika.Słyszy głosy… Konkretnie jeden - mocno upierdliwego alter-ego.Osobisty GeniuSz siedzi w głowie Heleny, choć nie wiadomo dokładnie za co… Za to Helena, uparcie poszukuje.Swojego talentu, miłości, pracy, nowych butów (zwłaszcza lewego).Jak się dosyć szybko okazuje, sama również jest poszuki...

An engrossing tale of financial intrigue, full of shadowy characters and shady dealings from the author of mystery and espionage thrillers E. Phillips Oppenheim. Phineas Duge, leader of a group of American millionaires who work financial deals together, suspects his colleagues of crooked dealings, and tricks them into signing a document that gives him power over the group. During a struggle the document is stolen from Duge, and everyone is pulled into a frantic search to re...

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa early in his career. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. His is engaged to Lady Olive Nunnelly, and is the envy of all of society. Deane is threatened with ruin when a old enemy – Richard Sinclair- shows up in London with what appears to be a legitimate prior deed to the mine. After a meeting with Deane, the man is found murdered and the ...

A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes and a tragic plot. This story tells of a wealthy Englishman who fell in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Krutha in the Mediterranean Sea. The very dark influence of the Catholic Church in this period will not prevent the victory of love and ha...

British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning, mystery, international espionage and intrigue. Many of his novels have been adapted for the screen. Mr. Oppenheim can be depended upon to give his plots that turn which is as admirable as it is unexpected, and „The Seven Conundrums” is one of the best of his many good and exciting books. His plotting is as smooth as silk, with the virtue of creating believabl...

A collection of nineteen stories, by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, mostly from the 1890’s and early 1900’s, published in magazines, and collected in 1913. Ghost stories, bizarre adventures, strange appearances and disappearances, and improbable love are the themes of these very enjoyable stories by the master storyteller. Young men courting women, psychic phenomena, and humorous characters abound. „Those Other Days” stories are almost Victorian in their diction and flavor, wit...

The state of the working class in the early 20th century caused significant changes in the left-wing political parties. The Liberal Party, which enjoyed the support of the working class, was threatened by the Party of Labor and trade unions that were in the forefront of the socialist and communist movement. In this novel, we are talking about a great deal of sympathy for the poorest workers who lost their jobs due to automation, recession and mass layoffs. The use of taxes ...

The secretive financier and Press baron Warren Rand is working to bring about Global Peace and Disarmament, against the plotting of England, France, Germany, and Russia. The story expands to include the chief characters in Rands life: his security chief a British officer Tellesom who falls in love with Rand’s estranged daughter, the financier John Glynde and a large cast of evil Russian and German spies. His machinations of the gold market and international sabotage bring t...

This third novel by Oppenheim was published in 1895. It was originally published under the title „A Daughter of the Marionis” and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, „a daughter of the Marionis,” we have a not impossible character. She does not appear till late in the story, but takes up the vendetta of her uncle with a will. Marionis himself is ...

A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue. The tiny kingdom of Theos is surrounded by Eastern European powers in this 1902 novel of politics, war, and romance. Russia and Turkey are plotting to take over the peaceful and rural country. A ...