Thrillery

Nadszedł czas wyrównania rachunków Znany z "Ery Wodnika" komisarz Emil Stompor wychodzi z więzienia i spotyka dziewczynę byłej partnerki, która proponuje mu wspólną zemstę. Ten odmawia, pragnąc po latach wyłącznie spokoju. Tymczasem w Warszawie dochodzi do serii brutalnych zabójstw. Prowadząca śledztwo grupa policjantów Komendy Stołecznej natrafia na pewien ślad. Trop prowadzi jednak w bardzo niebezpiecznym kierunku.Oparta na prawdziwych wydarzeniach brutalna, do bó...

The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant, asking him to help track down three missing persons, taken so that the villain can, as well as furthering his craze for crime and stopping his activities being investigated, obtain complete mental control over his acolytes. After much deliberation, Hannay accepts the case and so ...

Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been forced to flee. But a series of strange events that follow Pitt-Heron’s disappearance convinces Leithen that he is dealing with a sinister secret society. His suspicions begin to center on a wealthy, well-known, and intelligent businessman, who reveals himself to Leithen as an ardent anarc...

Sir Richard Hannay, retired mining engineer, lives a comfortable suburban life outside London, but feels old age and stodginess coming on and longs to have his mettle tested again. He gets his chance when a promise he made years ago in Rhodesia, to protect the son of an old acquaintance from a sinister conspiracy, and the action moves rapidly from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island of Sheep in the remote Norlands, where Hannay and his friends turn at last to...

World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in „Mr. Standfast”, the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Set, like „Greenmantle”, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay’s recall from the Western Front, to eng...

Zawrotne tempo. Klaustrofobiczny klimat. Niepokojące wydarzenia. Książka, od której nie można się oderwać. Parę drobnych kłamstewek jeszcze nikomu nie zaszkodziło. Prawda? Paul ma plan. Wizję lepszej przyszłości, którą ma zamiar zrealizować. Jeśli wymaga to ukrycia czy wyolbrzymienia kilku detali, nic nie szkodzi. Ale gdy wprasza się na rodzinne wakacje w Grecji… ...wpada w pułapkę napięć i emocji, których nie rozumie. W końcu zaczyna do niego docierać,...

Demoniczny zbrodniarz i eksperymenty okultystyczne Jan Piołun,  cierpiący na nieuleczalną chorobę chirurg z Poznania wyjeżdża w Góry Sowie do cieszącego się złą sławą schroniska na Wilczycy. Nie zdaje sobie sprawy, że jego przyjazd wywoła lawinę dramatycznych zdarzeń oraz przebudzi nadnaturalne siły.  Tymczasem w okolicy dochodzi do makabrycznych zbrodni oraz tajemniczych zdarzeń. Policjant Dominik Lamberg coraz wyraźniej dostrzega paranormalny kontekst sprawy i wespół...

Niewyjaśnione zdarzenia, paranormalne zjawiska, nadnaturalne zdolności – a może jedynie usterka, drobna wada w mechanizmie? Co może łączyć prostego drwala z prowincji, profesjonalnego zabójcę na zlecenie, zwyczajnego, nudnego księgowego, zakochaną młodą dziewczynę i renomowanego psychologa z szesnastoletnim stażem? Wszyscy bohaterowie „Usterki” prowadzą normalny, spokojny żywot – jednak tylko do czasu. Kiedy w ich otoczeniu zaczynają dziać się rzeczy, które trudno wytłum...

 Bolesna. Porywająca. Makabryczna. Myślisz, że wiesz komu ufasz? Myślisz, że potrafisz odróżnić dobro od zła? Mylisz się… Ciało dyrektora ekskluzywnej szkoły w Devon zostaje znalezione powieszone w auli. Kilka godzin wcześniej nauczyciel otrzymał paczkę i jedynie on potrafił zrozumieć milczące przesłanie, jakie z sobą niosła. Brzmiało ono: koniec. Gdy Exeter nęka fala przerażających morderstw, detektywi Imogen Grey i Adrian Miles muszą rozwiązać tę zagadkę, aby z...

In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced the life of a common seaman, learned the craft of sailing, encountered terri...

The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the genre, selling thousands of copies on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert Hawke is a man on the run. After returning from business in London, he finds that a sworn enemy, Will Colville, has been shot dead and the murder ...

Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing is best known for his character Dr. John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. „Shuttlebury Cobb” is a completely different sort of book. In it Freeman demonstrates his sense of humor and whimsy as he f...

In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robber’s strange hair which Challoner’s wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for the killer, in the process revenging himself on London’s criminals class i...

"When Rogues Fall Out” incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting „essay” on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where so...

Dr.Thornedyke’s methods of detection are characterised by investigations of apparently irrelevant facts and lengthy explanations of his train of hypothetical reasoning. In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke’s ability to identify fish scales and rope material sets his investigation in motion. The crime is the murder of an aristocrat staged to look like a suicide. There are really two stories alternating, which eventually become one. We watch Dr. Thorndyke follow a thin and improbable...

R. Austin Freeman’s mysteries are often divided into two parts, the first dealing with events leading up to a murder, followed by Dr. Thorndyke’s investigation. In this case, the first part, about a beautiful woman who poses as a serious artist, then disappears, is delightful. It details the friendship between Thomas Pedley and Loretta Schiller. The second part is written in the first person with Jervis, Thorndyke’s assistant, being the narrator as usual. A peaceful, pleasa...

This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests capture unwary travelers and blind them to prevent escape. Purely out of curi...

First, there are two seemingly unrelated events: the murder of a constable in pursuit of a diamond thief and the attempt to poison a potter by using arsenic. The connection lies in the presence of Dr. Oldfield, a Dr. Thorndyke’s former student, who happened to find the constable body and served as the consulting physician of the potter. Dr. Oldfield once again found a trace of murder: ashes of cremated human human body in the dustbin at the potter’s studio. The police tries...

„The Penrose Mystery”, fist published in 1936, is definitely up to the high standard of the wonderful Dr. Thorndyke series. Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzling gems, which he won’t insure. When Dr. Thorndyke is alerted to a burglary at his house, a scrap of paper is found with the word ‘lobster’ on it along with two Latin words. Meanwhile, Penrose has fled in panic after a car accident. The police believe he’s gone into hiding to avoid a manslaugh...

This novel is an excellent example of the inverted detective story, a modern form that R. Austin Freeman is credited with inventing. You know from the beginning who the guilty party is, but watching Dr. Thorndyke figure it out is amazing. And watching the perpetrator think that he is getting away with his crime, while watching Dr. Thorndyke close in on him is well-done literary irony. The fun comes not from being baffled, but from watching Thorndyke’s mind at work and obser...

Originally written in 1907, „The Red Thumb Mark” opens the series by R. Austin Freeman featuring Dr. Thorndyke, who is a sort of Sherlock-Holmes type character. A single fingerprint is found at the scene of a crime. When the police are able to identify that fingerprint, the case seems closed. But Dr. Thorndyke, the detective/barrister/medical doctor who takes on defense of this suspect, thinks he can disprove the prosecution’s case, based on that same fingerprint. It does n...

Mr. Pottermack, wrongly convicted for forgery of checks, has escaped from jail, made his fortune in the US and come back to England to find his fiance. The only one who is cleverer than Mr. Pottermack is Freeman’s detective, Dr. Thorndyke. In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the world he wants. Then Mr. Pottermack comes up against the legendary Dr. John...