Dla adwokata Jamesa Kitsona to dzień pełen wrażeń. Czuwa przy łożu konającego przyjaciela Johna Millinborna i pomaga milionerowi spisać testament. Dostaje od niego przy okazji prośbę o odnalezienie zaginionej w świecie siostrzenicy. Gdy wychodzi do apteki po lek dla chorego, spotyka odrażającego włóczęgę. Po powrocie do rezydencji przyjaciela odkrywa, że oprych dźgnął Millinborna w brzuch i tak zakończył jego żywot. A to dopiero początek zawikłanej historii kryminalnej... Na ...

Nadchodzą mroczne czasy dla handlowego miasta Thornis. Zagrażają mu wrogie Królestwa Południa, spustoszone przez długotrwałe wojny i suszę, a także bunt powiązanej z nieprzyjaciółmi szlachty. Tymczasem Mins, nastoletni syn szkutnika, marzy, by dokonać wielkich rzeczy i wyróżnić się spośród rówieśników przytłoczonych szarą rzeczywistością metropolii. Los zsyła mu szansę na spełnienie tych snów i już wkrótce chłopak zostaje przyjęty do tajnej organizacji, która ma na celu ratow...

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...

This is a typical Walla? e sensational story, and no one needs a better recommendation that. Lady Mary Danton and her infant daughter disappeared when Jim Steele, Mr. Salter’s legal assistant, was five. Almost 20 years later, the Danton fortune is about to be distributed to Digby Groat and his mother. But Jim is uneasy. Can he solve the mystery? The mystery surrounding the mark of the blue hand and Eunice’s birth, the schemes and plots of the evil Digby Groat, murder, and t...

Written in 1905, this is the first of Edgar Wallace’s adventures to feature the Four Just Men, a collective of European men of position who see it as their duty to execute those criminals that, for whatever reason, the law cannot or will not touch. In this adventure, the Four Just Men set their hand against the British Foreign Secretary. Concerned that an extradition bill about to be passed into law will result in the deportation of certain leading dissidents back to their ...

People, mostly young people, came to Tressa to resolve their immediate problems, for Tressa was wise in the ways of men and women, had London and its queer code at her finger-tips, and, a greater asset than her sophistication, had never lost touch with the human heart. She was fifty, slim, white of hair and hand, and, sophisticated as she was, had the habit of innocent interpretation.

The hapless Heine is trying very hard to be a good German spy in Great Britain during WWI but luck and circumstance are not with him. Every adventure turns out poorly for our dear spy. This collection of stories of Edgar Wallace about Heine was published during WWI and should be taken lightly by readers – some may see it as a piece of anti-German propaganda, with Heine as a bit of a hopeless idiot. But the stories are also entertaining and should be read as such. Although t...

Carfew was an erratic genius, with a horror of anything that had the appearance of discipline, order, or conventional method. So it was with some luck that there was a train disaster while he was working in the newspaper office of „The Megaphone”. He was dispatched to the scene and came back triumphant: „The Spaniard is a fake! „ shouted Carfew. He had forgotten all about the railway accident. Shortly thereafter, so would his editor. „The Admirable Carfew” is a collection o...

This collection of stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life – the Sanders stories – was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. He was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kipling’s famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own tales of ordi...

Istnieją zbrodnie, za które żadna kara nie jest odpowiednia, przestępstwa, których nawet prawo pisane nie jest w stanie wymazać. Oberzhon to prawdziwie czarny charakter, a kiedy konwencjonalna sprawiedliwość zawodzi, Trzej Sprawiedliwi wykorzystują swój wielki spryt i intelekt, aby samodzielnie ją wymierzyć. Stosują własne metody, wykonują własne wyroki. Nie ma mowy o kompromisie.

Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern „thriller”. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens – one of Wallace’s publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. „The Flying Fifty-Five” is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life. It’s all g...

„The Fellowship of the Frog” is a typical, fast-paced Edgar Wallace thriller. The plot centers around the identity of an arch-criminal who is using down and outs to do his dirty work. The Frog is a menace to Society. A criminal mastermind who has organized the tramps of Britain into an unlawful army. He murders, he robs, he blackmails... He must be stopped. But who is he? There is no shortage of suspects – and no shortage of twists. Richard Gordon, a prosecutor, and Sgt. El...

„The Face in the Night” was written in the year 1924 by Edgar Wallace. Leaving her chicken farm and moving to London to seek her sister, Audrey Bedford is caught passing the Queen of Finland’s stolen necklace, and allows herself to be sent to prison for a year rather than implicate her guilty sibling. Once released, she takes a position as scribe to the mysterious Mr. Malpas, who lurks in his electrically-automated apartment and only allows himself to be seen from across a ...

When Inspector Tanner is called in to investigate a ruthless murder at Mark’s Priory, the grand ancestral home of the Lebanon family, he quickly discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. The household is controlled by the family physician, the footmen behave more like guests than servants and the secretary Isla is afraid for her life. Why are these two American „toughs” employed as footmen? Why is Lady Lebanon so unwilling to answer any questions? What he does know is th...

Edgar Wallace is one of the most popular classics of the English detective. The unpredictable dynamic plots of his books gave rise to more than 160 adaptations! The author worked a lot with Hollywood: he was the screenwriter of the legendary King Kong and the first film version of The Baskervilles Dogs. Chases, shootings, changing clothes, luxury villas and cars are integral parts of Wallace’s stories. Mysterious murders, dizzying intrigues, dangerous investigations and unp...

„Killer Kay” is one of the mystery story from collection which includes the following short stories by Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre: „The Business-Woman”, „Blue Suit”, „Battle Level”, „The Air Taxi”, „The Convenient Sea”, „The Vamp and the Librarian”, „Thieves Make Thieves”. Fast-paced, with good twists and turns, an unusual mystery scheme and a little romance. Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular British writer of mystery thrillers. Today, Wall...

Edgar Wallace’s humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us about the every-day life of the soldiers and are supposed to be, in turns, funny, moving, or even sometimes tragic. This substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army ...

Over a period of time, men disappear, and later their heads are found. Meanwhile a young actress in a small part in a film on location, is disturbed by the actions of the owner of the place where they are filming. A detective comes to investigate, and finds many puzzling things going on. Several of the characters are suspicious, in one way or another, and as the plot unfolds, it grips you. Edgar Wallace’s „The Avenger” is a perfectly fine example of what a page-turning thri...

„Terror Keep” is a 1927 Edgar Wallace thriller featuring perhaps the most memorable of all Wallace’s heroes, Mr. J. G. Reeder. Reeder is at pains to point out that he is not a detective, which is technically true. He is not a policeman, and has no power to arrest suspects. He works as an investigator of banking crime, particularly forgery. He is nonetheless the terror of the criminal classes. This time detective and his attractive secretary, Margaret Belman, almost suffered...

Further collection of 24 war-time short stories about Smithy, the soldier and his comrades Nobby and Spud in the British army before WWI. This is the second anthology in Wallace’s „Smithy” series in which the famous character T. B. Smith makes his appearance. Also Smithy’s pal „Nobby” Clark has now emerged very much as the main character in these, usually humorous stories of pre world war one British army life. These stories are more clearly set in the Boer war. While the f...

Like most of the later ones even though this one is called „Sanders” it very much stars Lieutenant Augustus „Bones” Tibbetts. Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humor, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honors, Sande...

With „Room 13” in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This time Edgar Wallace’s unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a mode...

Ein paar Wochen nachdem ein Gefangener aus dem Gefängnis Sing-Sing entflieht, gibt es plötzlich mehrere Unterschlagungen im großen Stil. Ein Bankangestellter schenkt seiner Verlobten teuren Schmuck und schickt ihr ein dickes Bündel Dollarnoten. Zwei Fälle, die nur der berühmte Privatdetektiv Reeder lösen kann. Dort ist er der Spezialist für das Bankenwesen. Als in London eine Bank nach der andern durch Unterschlagungen im größeren Stil geschädigt wird, ist er es, der beigez...

„Das Gesetz der Vier” ist die Fortsetzung von „Die vier Gerechten”, in der die gleichnamige Vereinigung von Rächern für Gerechtigkeit kämpfen, wo Polizei und Justiz nicht können oder wollen, sind zwar nur noch zu zweit – nichtsdestotrotz kämpfen sie mit vollem Einsatz für ihre Fälle. Wenn das Gesetz des Staates Verbrecher nicht mehr belangen kann dann schlägt die Stunde der Vier Gerechten. Mit genialen und umsichtigen Plänen bestrafen die Vier Gerechten, kaltblütige Mörder,...