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    okładka The Yellow Snake, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „The Yellow Snake” is an entertaining and breathtaking 1926 thriller by the master of mystery Edgar Wallace. Fing-Su is a graduate of Oxford and head of the dread Society of the Joyful Hands, which he leads in his quest to dominate the world. The name „Yellow Snake” was bestowed on him by his opponent, Clifford Lynne. A bit more practical than Fu Manchu, Fing-Su employs terrestrial strategies like blackmail, bribery, and kidnapping to further his own nefarious aims. Under h...

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    okładka The Feathered Serpent, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „The Feathered Serpent” is a mystery-thriller novel penned by the remarkably prolific Edgar Wallace. A number of people receive threatening cards emblazoned with the device of a feathered serpent, a device that we later find is associated with ancient Aztec religion and with a cult that still exists in Mexico and Central America. Reporter Peter Dewin suspects the card mysteriously left in the handbag of actress Ella Creed is a publicity stunt. He soon discovers that a wealt...

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    okładka The Exploits of Airman Hay, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „The Exploits of Airman Hay” is a series of ten stories about an intrepid aviator by the name of Captain Murray Hay. The stories fast-paced with some surprising twists and turns, well written and great to read. The book presents the stories under the titles found in Edgar Wallace’s manuscript, most of which correspond to those used in Topical Times. Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Jus...

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    okładka Czerwony krąg, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Jedna z najbardziej znanych powieści kryminalnych w dorobku Edgara Wallace'a, aż czterokrotnie przenoszona na srebrny ekran. Gdy James Beardmore otrzymuje list z żądaniem wysokiego okupu, postanawia nie dać się zastraszyć. Organizacja Czerwony Krąg niewiele jednak robi sobie z jego nieposłuszeństwa - w kolejnych dniach zasypie swoją ofiarę kolejnymi listami z czerwonym znakiem i brutalnie wtargnie w codzienność jego i bliskich mu osób. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że finał tych p...

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    okładka Der Doppelgänger, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Jenny Miller reist nach London, um sich von ihrem Vermögensverwalter und Onkel Harry Selsbury Auskunft über ihre Finanzen einzufordern, ist ihr doch zu Ohren gekommen, dass ihr gesamtes Erbe veruntreut worden sei. Onkel Harry kann den Verdacht zwar widerlegen, benimmt sich jedoch ansonsten äußerst merkwürdig. Harry hat ein Verhältnis mit der verheirateten Germaine de la Roche und wird auf Schritt und Tritt von einem Privatdetektiv überwacht. Um diesem zu entkommen, wollen d...

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    okładka Der Mann von Marokko, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „Der Schwarze” treibt in London sein Unwesen, keine Bank ist vor ihm sicher. Die Wohnung James Morlakes in der Bond Street ist die luxuriöseste dieser vornehmen Londoner Strasse. Mr. Morlake zählt zu den bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten der Gesellschaft. Man sagt, er lebe von seinen Zinsen. Viele wissen um das Doppelleben des Gentleman, aber alle schweigen aus Angst vor einem gewaltigen Skandal! Gibt es wirklich eine Verbindung zu dem bekannten und reichen James Lexington Morla...

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    okładka Sanctuary Island, Ebook | Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

    1936. „Sanctuary Island” is a crime novel by the pioneer of detective fiction Edgar Wallace (an adaption by Robert Curtis). Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter’s School and the Board School, but after a frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military. He served in the Royal West Kent Regiment in England and then as part of t...

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    okładka The Green Pack, Ebook | Edgar Wallace, Robert Curtis

    „The Green Pack” is a novel adapted from a successful play by the playwright Robert Curtis. Robert Curtis was the private secretary to British crime writer Edgar Wallace. Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913, before parting following the outbreak of World War One, as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1916, he was discharged from the service after contracting malaria. In 1918 he was reunited with Wallace who employed him as his secretary, he had the task...

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    okładka The Fighting Scouts, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    The second of Edgar Wallace’s two short story collections about Scottish airman Tam during World War I. In this book Tam is joined by a new young American protégé Billy Best. The stories of Tam the pilot are not mysteries. They are the entertaining stories of the exploits of a cockney aviator who supposedly was Charles Lindbergh’s childhood inspiration to fly. Tam is a real person, and all the adventures set forth have actually happened, though names and places are necessar...

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    okładka We Shall See!, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Alva Collins, the mentally unbalanced wife of airline pilot Evan Collins, wants her husband to leave his job. She is neurotic, vicious and unstable but only her brother knows that she is a hopeless psychopath whose condition can only deteriorate. However, she is tragically killed when someone throws a hive of bees into her bedroom. Police deduce that whoever was responsible knew that Alva was allergic to the insects, and suspicion immediately falls on her husband. This earl...

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    okładka The Woman from the East and Other Stories, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, in his lifetime, earned him the title, „King of the Modern Thriller. This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1934. „The Woman From the East and Other Stories” is an enjoyable collection of short stories that include „The Chopham Affair”, „The Hopper”, „The Silver Charm”, and many more. As the stories are rather short and quite fast-pac...

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    okładka The Valley of Ghosts, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    A murder is committed among the rich of a small town, and with more than one ghost and all the evidence seems to point to a beautiful young woman... „The Valley of Ghosts”, written as one of four detective novels in 1922, is set in the seemingly peaceful community Beverly Green, a place where upper-middle-class families live a secluded life. Why was Stella Nelson with the victim in the middle of the night, shortly before the murder? Who was the mysterious blackmailer who he...

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    okładka The Traitor’s Gate, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    This Edgar Wallace mystery takes place in London. Hope Joyner, ward of a Mr. Hallet whom she has never met, is in love with Sir Richard Hallowell. Diana Montague, who was once engaged to Sir Richard, now keeps very dubious company – Sir Richard’s brother Graham for one. He has just been released from prison. Since Graham has been away Diana has acquired money, and she is now Press Secretary for the Prince of Kishlastan, who according to Colly Warrington, is totally besotted...

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    okładka The Tomb of Ts’in, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Inspector Tillizinni is back, this time involved in the quest to locate an ancient tomb of the Great Emperor – the first Emperor of the Chinese, who died two centuries before the birth of Christ and its world-changing secret. The Society of Joyful Intention – the most bloodthirsty organization the world has known. It concerns Tillizinni also, for Scotland Yard placed him on his mettle, set him a challenging task, which threatened at one time to bring ruin to the greatest de...

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    okładka The Terror, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot. Finally released after ten years behind bars, they are out for vengeance on the man who betrayed them, and the trail leads to a lonely house haunted by organ music and the specter of a hooded figure who prowls its dark corridors. But the police are on their tail also wanting to find out who was behind the robbery. Another breathtak...

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    okładka The Terrible People, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Clay Shelton is an outstanding forger and has been capable of cheating on an entire country. One day is finally arrested, convicted of the assassination for killing a policeman and sentenced to death. His execution is performed and the case is closed. Or this is what everyone thinks, until the judge who sentenced Shelton, his prosecutor and executioner are brutally murdered by „the Terrible People”, an mysterious secret organization. The next name on their list is the one o...

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    okładka The Fourth Plague, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „The Fourth Plague” is an intriguing crime novel that was published in 1913, during the early years of Wallace’s career as a novelist. Here again pits a master detective against a powerful crime syndicate, this time with an Italian background. An Italian secret society, burglary, kidnapping, detectives, mysterious artefacts, remarkable coincidences! This is a tale of the Red-Hand, a criminal organization that makes Count Festini, its secret head, the most dangerous man in E...

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    okładka Nig-Nog and Other Humorous Stories, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    „Nig Nog and Other Humorous Stories” is a collection of short humorous stories that include „Jimmy’s Brother”, „Sentimental Simpson”, „Chubb of the Slipper”, and many more. There are reasons worth exploring why Edgar Wallace was so successful in his writings and amongst them were his imagination, cleverness, and humor as demonstrated in these initial short stories, especially „Nig- Nog” (making an in-your-face patent medicine pedlar and a burglar endearing characters, and f...

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    okładka Mrs. William Jones and Bill, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    This mystery collection, written by British author Edgar Wallace, contains the following works: „Mrs. William Jones and Bill”, „The Adventures of George”, „According to Freud”, „Bondage”, „The Society of Bright Young People”, „The King and the Editor”, „Christmas Presents”. Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Just Men”, „Sanders of the River”, and „J. G. Reeder”. Although Wallace wrote ma...

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    okładka Grey Timothy, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    The renowned family Callander receives a very unwelcome visit from their Australian relative, nephew Brian Pallard of family patriarch Peter Callander. Unwelcome because Pallard cultivates a rather dubious way of life and made his considerable fortune on the races. Upon arrival, Pallard proves charming and witty, so that daughter Gladys immediately gets a crush on him, but he also has rivals who do not shy away from bad deed like killing a horse with tse tse flies to manipu...

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    okładka The Angel of Terror, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Conventional ideas of beauty are typically associate it with goodness and kindness. However, appearances can be deceptive. A classic mystery crime novel involving the evil deeds of one Jean Briggerland, a woman with all the outward angelic qualities imaginable but possessing an unspeakable evil nature, so lovely that none can see her guilt – even in connection with the most blatant crimes! Jean uses her criminal connection to climb to the heights of wealth and power, but la...

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    okładka Captains of Souls, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another man’s body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer, Sault is nevertheless a commanding figure and an appealing character. He is the center of a tragedy... The novel is long and breezy and a bit confusing, a comedy of manners at some points, a melodrama at others. This story from the most prolific writers of the twentieth centu...

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    okładka Double Dan, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Various people had tried, and failed, to break the strong will of Diana Ford. Her lawyers, for instance, thought they could dissuade her from coming to England. Her cousin, Gordon Salisbury, found she had moved in as a permanent houseguest, uninvited and defiant of convention. So, it was not surprising that when she suspected Gordon of being the victim of a clever impersonation, Diana should take charge. Recommended for Edgar Wallace fans and fans of old-time, classic crime...

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    okładka Der Lügendetektor, Ebook | Edgar Wallace

    Mr. Reeder war ein seltsamer Mann. Er arbeitete nicht für Scotland Yard, aber als Beamter der Staatsanwaltschaft gab er dem Yard seine Rechercheergebnisse jeweils gerne weiter. In der Öffentlichkeit galt er als Detektiv. – Als Ena Panton verschwand, war Mr. Reeder schon seit geraumer Zeit auf der Spur des sogenannten Captain Mannering. Mannering, von allen „Der Captain” genannt, lebt in Hexleigh Manor, einem Landgut in schlechtem Zustand, das in einem großen Park liegt. Mr....

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