“Tarzan the Terrible“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
This is the eighth novel in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.

Astrid zostawiła burzliwą przeszłość za sobą. Minęło ponad sześć lat, od kiedy poznała gorzki smak prawdy, i tyle samo czasu, odkąd ostatni raz poczuła dotyk ust Aresa na swoich.Dziewczyna postanowiła skupić się na przygotowaniach do zaręczyn z synem wspólnika swojego ojca oraz na dalszym wzmacnianiu więzi z przyjaciółmi.Wydaje się, że nic nie może już zburzyć tego spokoju, na który tak długo pracowała. Wystarczą jednak trzy krótkie chwile, żeby Astrid zrozumiała, jak bardzo ...

What would you do if your doppelganger were committing crimes and making the police believe you were the perpetrator? In Danby Croker’s case, he decides to retaliate! But that is only one of the problems besetting him in this set of interlinked stories. Given a job as an antique dealer, can he resist the temptations of earning some easy money through a bit of fencing and counterfeiting? And what on earth is he doing going round London dressed as a suffragette?! R. Austin Fr...

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 character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is an „autobiography” of Thorrndyke’s lab assistant Polton. Polton, Dr. Thorndyke’s lab assistant and a servant has graced every Thorndyke mystery with his mechanical ingenuity, his sumptuous meals and teas, and his crinkly smile. The second part is a mystery tale, which builds on some of ...

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillum’s body is found, the inquest duly returns a verdict of suicide and blackmail ...

John Osborne is a young gentleman who has left England for some, as of yet, unknown reason. He settles in Adaffia, an ends-of-the-earth type of town on the Gold Coast. Almost immediately he gets into a fight defending the only other white man in town, a drunken trader. And we see that Osborne is a tremendous fighter skilled at ju-jitsu, boxing, wrestling and strategy. These skills will come into play again and again, in a mutiny, a rebellion and other struggles with formida...

Second in the Dr. Thorndyke mystery series set in London around 1900. Thorndyke is a lawyer and medical doctor who reasons out mysteries. This involves a young doctor friend who Thorndyke hires as his assistant whose strange case involving a mysteries man and couple who are caring for him and an inheritance case brought to Thorndyke. A classic English mystery with the detective, Dr. Thorndyke, solving what appears to be two disparate mysteries. One is an apparent suicide wi...

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...

Osiągnął niewiarygodne bogactwo i władzę, jednak w dalszym ciągu nie ma dziedzica.Wspaniałe dziedzictwo stworzone przez jednego z największych królów Judy – Hiskiasza – jest zagrożone. Jego ukochana żona, Chefsiba, jest bezpłodna. W desperackiej próbie uratowania ciągłości rodu królewskiego, Chefsiba decyduje się zawrzeć zakazany pakt z boginią płodności Aszerą. Oburzony bałwochwalczym występkiem Chefsiby, Hiskiasz niszczy doszczętnie miejsce pogańskiego kultu; sam jednak zos...

Osiągnął niewiarygodne bogactwo i władzę, jednak w dalszym ciągu nie ma dziedzica. Wspaniałe dziedzictwo stworzone przez jednego z największych królów Judy – Hiskiasza – jest zagrożone. Jego ukochana żona, Chefsiba, jest bezpłodna. W desperackiej próbie uratowania ciągłości rodu królewskiego, Chefsiba decyduje się zawrzeć zakazany pakt z boginią płodności Aszerą. Oburzony bałwochwalczym występkiem Chefsiby, Hiskiasz niszczy doszczętnie miejsce pogańskiego kultu; sam jednak zo...

The twins are living in relatively straightened circumstances, as their father has died, and get up to all kinds of mischief, while being governed by their own set of values. The children, however, have little dread of poverty, for when ever they desire a luxury, such as a bicycle, or a fur stole for their mother’s Christmas present, they devise some means to raise the necessary funds, and they stop at nothing from inducing a rich great-aunt to endow a home for cats to poac...

Caroline Fletcher, córka zamożnych ludzi, wychowuje się w przekonaniu, że niewolnictwo jest ustanowione przez Boga i nie ma w nim niczego złego. W pewnym momencie zauważa okrucieństwo i niesprawiedliwość posiadania niewolników. Kocha swoją służbę jak członków rodziny. Jednocześnie jej ojciec oraz narzeczony, Charles St. John, walczą o Konfederację, jej ukochany styl życia i tradycje.Bohaterka znajduje się w narodzie podzielonym na części. Jest rozdarta między tymi, których ko...

Przyjmując Boże Prawo, król Hiskiasz zapewnił swojemu krajowi pomyślność. Jednak realizowanie woli Jahwe nie jest proste. Wymaga podejmowania niepopularnych decyzji, tak w wymiarze życia osobistego, jak i polityki. Główny wróg judzkiego państwa żąda hołdu i daniny. Król znajduje się w bardzo niebezpiecznej sytuacji...Juerusza, młoda Żydówka wywieziona przez Asyryjczyków w dalekie kraje, na własne oczy widzi, do czego przerażający przeciwnik jest zdolny. Potężne wojsko podąża ...

NAJWYŻSZY CZAS, BY ZWIERZĘTA WZIĘŁY SWÓJ LOS WE WŁASNE ŁAPY  Niewinne zwierzęta mają kłopot: temperatura rośnie, poziom wód się podnosi, ich pokarm znika. Ktoś musi wkroczyć i uratować te istoty walczące o przetrwanie. Ktoś musi zapobiec globalnej katastrofie. Tym kimś jest… Bractwo Zagrożonych.  Jeden supersilny NIEDŹWIEDŹ POLARNY. Jeden ŁUSKOWIEC z talentem technicznym. Jeden wyjątkowo sarkastyczny NARWAL. I ORANGUTAN z wielkim marzeniem.  Ci niezwy...

Po dziesiątkach lat wygnania przepowiednie zaczynają się spełniać: król Cyrus oznajmia, że Żydzi mogą wrócić do Jerozolimy. Kapłan Iddo jest przekonany, że jest to znak odzyskanej Bożej przychylności. Żydzi zbyt długo żyli w Babilonie i wielu z nich, łącznie z synami Iddo, utraciło swoją wiarę. Dlatego niewielu decyduje się zostawić wszystko i ruszyć w drogę powrotną – wrócić do swojego domu i swojego Boga. Ich podróż do Ziemi Obiecanej nie jest łatwa. Gdy trudności zaczynają...

"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...

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 ...

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...

„The Eye of Osiris”, published in 1911, was the second of R. Austin Freeman’s many Dr. Thorndyke mystery novels. Here the great expert in medical jurisprudence will encounter the mysteries of ancient Egypt – without ever leaving London. The cast of characters is rich in Egyptologists. A wealthy old man, John Bellingham, collector of Egyptian antiquities, has disappeared without a trace. His brother is also an Egyptologist, as is his niece and the lawyer who executed his wil...

In this novel, Dr. Thorndyke builds a card house of wild speculations to solve a perplexing murder case, astonishing all observers, including the police. The victim is Julius D ’Arblay, an artist highly skilled at the rare French art of making wax-work figures and portrait masks. D’Arblay has a beautiful daughter, which leads to a romance with a young Dr. Grey who discovers the father’s body and brings the case to Dr. Thorndyke’s attention. Before the end of the story, the ...

This book is a collection of short stories about one of Sherlock Holmes’ most prominent rivals: Dr. Thorndyke and Jervis. Doyle’s characters may be better, but Freeman spins a lot of mysteries based on reasoning.

Dr. Thorndike is a physician and lawyer who lectures on medical jurisprudence. He is also a Grade A detective with a first-rate brain and excellent powers of observation, as well as a talent for scientific analysis. He aids the purposes of justice by reading out a completely unforeseen decision from a set of clues that the authorities have misinterpreted.