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...

„The Duke in the Suburbs” was written in the year 1909 by Edgar Wallace. Rich Texas Cowboy with French noble lineage and knowledge of the manners of a Duke and George Hankey, who discovered silver in Los Madges, have moved to the suburbs of London and created a havoc with the neighbors there, the women, former enemies and friends. Duke de Montvillier has to avoid ambushes, avert sinister plots against him, found newspapers and much more. This book is one of the most popular...

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...

"„Misja specjalna” to debiut Janusza Brzozowskiego w gatunku science fiction, a także po raz pierwszy autor używa swojego pseudonimu literackiego (Patrick Edwards), pod którym znają go czytelnicy w Australii. ""Misja specjalna"" jest typowo fantastyczną powieścią, ktorej temat może okazać się w każdej chwili bardzo realistyczny. W pisarstwie Janusza Brzozowskiego czuje się pasję, znajomość tematu i umiejętność konstruowania napięcia z zaskakującym finałem."

An Edgar Wallace detective thriller novel. The plot revolves around the nephew of a small town English doctor who takes over his uncle’s practice and runs into trouble with a religious fanatic. This book is in a new vein for Edgar Wallace, for it is not a story of mystery but a real novel, and goes to show where his versatility could take him if he wished, for „Those Folk of Bulboro” proves him to be the possessor of all the requisite gifts which go to make the really popul...

When Ferdie van Wyk was arrested for being found in the barracks of the Larkshire Regiment under suspicious circumstances, he very naturally objected to being marched through the one little street of Simon’s Town by a military escort.

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...

Pies domowy – jako naturalny towarzysz człowieka – może pomagać w leczeniu różnych zaburzeń i towarzyszyć w nieszczęściu. Pies-terapeuta może być wsparciem w leczeniu tych zaburzeń, w których elementem obrazu klinicznego jest niepełnosprawność ruchowa, psychiczna lub somatyczna. W pierwszej naukowej monografii poświęconej dogoterapii Autorzy prześledzili historię kontaktów człowiek–pies oraz społeczny obraz psa w różnych systemach religijnych, filozoficznych i kulturowych. Pr...

Alan Mere ma wszystko: dobrze płatną pracę, luksusowy apartament na sto trzydziestym drugim piętrze, przyjaciela idealnego w postaci sztucznej inteligencji o imieniu Fred… oraz życie, którego nie znosi. Pewnego dnia spotyka piękną nieznajomą, Syntię, i od tej chwili nie może przestać o niej myśleć. Inne sprawy powoli tracą znaczenie, produktywność Alana w pracy gwałtownie spada, a jego rozkojarzenie natychmiast zostaje zauważone przez przełożonych. Podczas jednego z bezcelo...

Pacjentki mówiły o nim, że jest jak Juda Tadeusz, patron od spraw trudnych i beznadziejnych. Bo profesor Romuald Dębski nie był zwyczajnym ginekologiem-położnikiem. Raczej ostatnią szansą na macierzyństwo. Kobiety, które przez lata bez powodzenia starały się zajść w ciążę, leczyły się właśnie u niego. I rodziły dzieci. Mimo swoich chorób: endometriozy, raka, bezowulacyjnych cyklów, chorób tarczycy, wad serca czy niepełnosprawności.Ta książka to zbiór opowieści kobiet, których...

W życiu jak matematyce: jeżeli idzie za łatwo, zapewne robisz coś źle. Siedemnastoletnia Caroline Prajs urodziła się w Kanadzie. W wieku dwunastu lat wyjechała wraz z rodzicami do Polski. Jest więc dość rzadkim przypadkiem emigrantki, której sytuacja stanowi odwrócenie losów znacznej części współczesnej polskiej młodzieży. „Gdy krzywe jest proste” to wartka, pełna uroku, humoru i wzruszeń opowieść o relacjach rodzinnych młodej bohaterki i jej trudnej adaptacji do odmiennyc...

Pierwsza w języku polskim publikacja poruszająca w sposób kompleksowy problematykę terapii zajęciowej osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną. Przedstawia teoretyczne aspekty niepełnosprawności i terapii zajęciowej. Pokazuje obszary funkcjonowania osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną oraz możliwości wspierania tych osób jakie daje terapia zajęciowa. Szerzej omawia m.in. terapię zajęciową osób z głęboką niepełnosprawnością intelektualną oraz dzieci z zespo...

Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of „The Four Just Men”. Moreover, the author was a wholehearted supporter of Victorian and early Edwardian values and mores, which are now considered in some respects politically incorrect. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible. „The Day of Uniting” by Edgar Wallace was originall...

Edgar Wallace’s novels always have an endearing quality about them that is not so easy to define. „Daughters of the Night” is hard to explain in a few words, but there are the usual Edgar Wallace characters: the hero, the heroine, the suspicious but beautiful woman who is somehow involved in the whole plot, the hard-faced and fiendish villain and a chivalrous one. Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branch of the South Devon Farmers’ Bank with a love of hunting, horses ...

„The Dark Eyes Of London” is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in 1924. Inspector Holt and his valet Sunny are planning a visit to Monte Carlo when an urgent telegram arrives from the Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard. Mr. Gordon Stuart has been found drowned in suspicious circumstances. An unbalanced doctor and his brother murder a series of wealthy men to benefit from their life insurance policies, using a charity for the blind ...

The mysterious Crimson Circle is a high-level protection society: pay them, or you die. Every wealthy man goes in fear of them if he’s smart, and dies if he isn’t. This is a criminal genius who recruits people in trouble, rescues them with help or cash, and puts them to work on robbery, blackmail and murder. At least one man is dead after refusing to pay L100,000. Will there be more bodies? The Circle has many minions, including the mysterious and beautiful Thalia Drummond,...

A really top-notch literary thriller from Edgar Wallace. The story is set in Russia and England around the time of WW1. We follow a 22-year-old man on his first assignment for a Russian-English oil company as he becomes embroiled in intrigue and romance involving a beautiful Grand Duchess, American mobster Cherry Bim, and the influential Israel Kensky and his magical book of „all power”. It is through Hay’s eyes that we see the steady erosion of the existing Russian aristoc...