English writer Morrison chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective. Mr. Dorrington himself is a marvelous creation, charming and with no moral scruples whatsoever, clever, and entirely devoted to achieving as great a profit for himself as possible if this involves doing some honest detection, that is fine if it involved extorting the criminal instead of turning hi...

A widow and her two children struggle to make ends meet in East London after their grandfather and provider is killed. First they are threatened by a sponging uncle and his friend Mr. Butson, a „cadger of suppers”, then by their new landlord Mr. Dunkin, a man who exudes a wealth of sympathy, a wealth that Mr. Dunkin squandered with no restraint but this, that it carried no other sort of wealth with it. „To London Town” novel was intended to provide a picture of working-clas...

Second collection of detective fiction concerning Martin Hewitt, a famous private detective whose methods closely resemble those of Sherlock Holmes. The anthology is composed of six short stories, mysteries investigated by the investigator Martin Hewitt, and narrated by his friend, Colonel Brett. An artist’s work is vindictively vandalized, and the artist is found murdered in his smoking room. Gold bullion totaling L10,000 mysteriously vanishes from the ill-fated steamship ...

Who else could have so quickly connected a partial sheet of music wrapped around a rock and tossed through a sitting room window with an infamous decades-old robbery? Would anyone else have taken seriously the fears of an eccentric old woman who swore thieves were after her most prized possession: a snuffbox fashioned from the actual wood of Noah’s Ark? England’s greatest crime-solver Martin Hewitt uses his superior intellect and genial charm to unmask thieves, murderers, a...

The second collection of 12 of the early Craig Kennedy mysteries, written by Arthur Benjamin Reeve and published in 1912. His Craig Kennedy stories, of which these are early examples, earned their main character the nickname „the American Sherlock Holmes,” both for his highly rational and analytical detective work as well as for his ever-present Dr. Watson-like companion Walter Jameson. They solve crimes using cutting-edge technology of the early twentieth century with vary...

„Przerażająco logiczna, wiarygodna i przygnębiająco wizjonerska… Clarke jest mistrzem” - „Los Angeles Times” O losach Ziemi decydują wielkie mocarstwa, a ludzkość z napięciem śledzi wyścig programów kosmicznych USA i Rosji. Gdy jednak człowiek ma już ruszyć na podbój kosmosu, kosmos przybywa do niego – nad największymi miastami planety pojawiają się ogromne statki obcych. Po okresie niepewności i daremnych próbach oporu sytuacja wygląda obiecująco: przybysze...

Ciemność w południe to jedna z tych książek, których nie ma potrzeby przedstawiać ‒ niemal natychmiast po wydaniu została przetłumaczona na kilkadziesiąt języków i weszła do kanonu najważniejszych lektur obnażających mechanizmy totalitaryzmu. Co niezmiernie rzadkie w nowoczesnej literaturze, wszystkie te przekłady bazowały jednak na angielskim tłumaczeniu Daphne Hardy, sądzono bowiem, że niemiecki oryginał przepadł w wojennej zawierusze. Niezwykłym zrządzeniem losu odn...

TRZECI TOM WIZJONERSKIEJ SERII, KANONU LITERATURY SCIENCE FICTION. Clarke pozostaje mistrzem w opisywaniu wszechświata, łączącym wierność naukowym faktom z pisarskim artyzmem. - „The New York Times Book Review” Pięćdziesiąt lat po transformacji Jowisza w drugie słońce Ziemi stutrzyletni doktor Heywood Floyd wchodzi na pokład luksusowego statku Universe, by po raz pierwszy w dziejach wylądować na komecie Halleya. W tym samym czasie Galaxy wyrusza, by zbadać tajemnice ew...

Fascynująca mieszanka technologii i człowieczeństwa sięgająca tajemnic wszechświata i głębi ludzkiej duszy. - „Chicago Tribune” Poprawione i uzupełnione wydanie trzeciego tomu klasycznej serii SF Rama II przetrwał atak rakietowy z Ziemi i opuścił Układ Słoneczny, a wraz z nim troje członków załogi Newtona. Nicole des Jardins, Richard Wakefield i Peter O’Toole są sami, zdani na własne siły i pozbawieni przyszłości. Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnościom starają się jednak prz...

W książce autor pragnie przybliżyć podstawowe idee i myśli Jana Henryka Pestalozziego oraz wskazać możliwości ich praktycznego wdrożenia. Nie uda się nam bowiem ulepszyć edukacji tylko organizacyjną gorliwością i większymi nakładami finansowymi. Sukces edukacyjny nastąpi wówczas, gdy baczyć będziemy na owe ponadczasowe zasady, które zidentyfikował i sformułował dla potomności Pestalozzi. Swoich czytelników autor upatruje w osobach nie tylko związanych z kształceniem, lecz ta...

„Martin Hewitt, Investigator” is a collection of late Victorian short stories linked by the protagonist, Martin Hewitt. This book chronicles seven of Hewitt’s cases, and gave rise to his reputation as England’s „second-best-detective”. They are tales of impossible to solve crimes that Hewitt was able to crack by piecing together a few clues where the police detectives had failed. Like the Holmes stories, the author did not want the detective to talk about his own cases in t...

Spirit of Old Essex draws together Arthur Morrison’s lost treasure of a novel „Cunning Murrell”, a jocular tale of witchcraft, old salts, pugilists, smuggling and country life long lost, together with additional background information on Morrison’s research and inspiration. „Cunning Murrell” is a fictionalized biography of James Murrell, also known as Cunning Murrell, who was an English cunning man, or professional folk magician. In this capacity, he reportedly employed mag...

„Tales of Mean Streets”, published in 1894, is a collection of short stories describing the appalling conditions that many working people endured. These stories are a brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community, that of the streets of London’s East End. Having lived and worked there, he author knew that East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. Here Arthur Morrison chronicles their advent...

„Green Ginger” is one of the humorous story from mixed collection of sixteen short stories by the author of the Martin Hewitt, Investigator series. Collects several mysteries, including a „Cunning Murrell” tale, also „The Seller of Hate”, a deal-with-the-Devil story, and „The Chamber of Light”, a humorous ghost story of psychic investigator driving the poor spectres to distraction. The stories are well written and definitely a product of their time and place. Arthur George ...

Morrison’s literary reputation is mostly based on his realistic novels and short stories about slum life in London. In addition, he wrote detective fiction that is openly derivative of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Possessed with a wide and free-ranging curiosity, Morrison wrote both fiction and nonfiction works on diverse subjects, from Japanese art to occultism, and participated in English literary life well into World War II. In 1930 Arthur Morrison moved...

Sulla to jedna z najbardziej kontrowersyjnych postaci w historii Republiki Rzymskiej. Wybitny wódz, oddany ideałowi rzymskiego przeznaczenia, często przedstawiany jest jednak jako pospolity tyran lub despota. Biografia autorstwa Arthura Keaveneya, po raz pierwszy wydana przeszło dwadzieścia lat temu, zmieniła ten pogląd na rzecz bardziej złożonego wizerunku człowieka, który obsesyjnie wierzył, że – jako Sulla Feliks – obdarzony jest łaską bogów. Sulla dorastał w ubóstwie...

„The Gold of the Gods” was first published in 1915. By then, Arthur Benjamin Reeve’s series of mysteries involving Professor Craig Kennedy and his sidekick, journalist Walter Jameson, had become something of a household name. Altogether, he wrote 18 novels featuring these two characters, and several short stories. Our story follows a theft of an ancient Inca dagger from an archeology professor. He asks Kennedy to assist in bringing it back. But there are threats beyond ones...

Detective Kennedy and his sidekick Walter Jameson are called in by a District Attorney to look into the murder of an actress in the middle of shooting a movie called „The Black Terror”. What follows is figuring out the puzzling trail of a calculating killer. Kennedy performs detailed tests in his laboratory and he eventually finds what caused the death of the film star, but he must still go through lots of adventures until he finds the murderer as well. The book is highly e...

The scientific detective known as the „American Sherlock Holmes” pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel. „The Exploits of Elaine” is a collection of short stories about a beautiful young woman Elaine, who’s father was murdered by the mysterious gang leader The Clutching Hand, and who is subsequently terrorized by him and his gang. Using the latest advances in forensic science, the professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter...

Guy Garrick, a detective who has made a scientific study of crime, has been the hero of a number of earlier short stories. In the present novel he is engaged in tracking down a gang of motor bandits. The police, the city detectives, the automobile detectives and Guy Garrick are all working on the problems, and the unravelling and subsequent glory of Garrick are very exciting. The eleventh volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar...

Arthur J. Rees is a past master in the art of fashioning ingenious mystery-detective yarns and „The Moon Rock” is one of his best. The author’s many admirers will find keen enjoyment and many puzzling moments in their endeavors to solve the mystery. Robert Turold had spent his life trying to prove his claim to an ancient title. Yet, when it seems he is about to finally succeed, his body is found in a remote cottage on the Cornish coast, an apparent suicide. Detective Branne...

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. The new Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husband’s family home. However, she is seemingly taken ill and can’t accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbor’s house after dinner. Later she is dead of a gunshot wound, an heirloom pearl necklace is missing, and Scotland Yard is homing in o...