Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing story of a polite, artistic gentleman who, by a series of mistakes, accident...

This little novel is a total departure from the Dr. Thorndyke mysteries, the classic British detective novels that made Freeman’s reputation. The heroine is a perfectly proper but adventurous young woman named Phyllis, who takes over her cousin Charlie’s chambers in Clifford Inn. The presence of some of Charlie’s clothes in the closet gives her the idea of dressing as a man for a fancy dress ball. Unfortunately, Phyllis looks just like the charming Charlie when wearing his ...

All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardine’s troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared. The police can find no trace that the man was ever there, so Jardine ta...

“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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Narrated by Robert Anstey, who is acting as Thorndyke’s counsel as Jervis is away in America. He walks right into a murder scene, attracted by the screams of a beautiful young woman. The dead man is a harmless old bachelor who collects objects of arcane appeal. Several pieces of inscribed jewelry are missing. It’s a strange sort of burglary perpetrated by clumsy amateurs – who nonetheless got clean away. Dr. Thorndyke takes on the case and enlists Anstey as his sidekick. An...

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...

Dr. John Thorndike is a fictional detective in a series of novels. He is a medical lawyer – a doctor by origin, he turned to the bar and became one of the first, in modern terms, forensic experts. His decisions were based on his method of collecting all possible data.

Pachnące kwiaty zwiastowały wiosnę, ale sad był również pełen tajemnic i złamanych serc… Głębokie pragnienie posiadania domu niegdyś zaprowadziło Elizę do Sadów Wyatta. Teraz jako wdowa z trojgiem dzieci zmaga się z rosnącymi długami i świadomością, że wszystko jest na jej barkach. Nie ma jednak pojęcia, jak samodzielnie zająć się sadem. Gdy u jej drzwi zjawia się nieznajomy, Eliza z początku traktuje go jak pozostałych włóczęgów, którzy szukają pracy w czasach wielkiego kryz...

NARODZIŁ SIĘ, BY WŁADAĆ LUDEM BOŻYM, ALE JAHWE JEST W JEGO CZASACH JEDYNIE MGLISTYM, NIEISTOTNYM WSPOMNIENIEM W PAMIĘCI JEGO NARODU.Hiskiasz urodził się jako drugi syn króla Achaza. Nie powstrzymało to jednak jego ojca przed wcieleniem w życie przewrotnego planu, który miał zaskarbić mu łaski pogańskiego bożka, Molocha. U stóp ołtarza przerażony i bezsilny chłopiec po raz pierwszy spotyka Boga Jedynego i Prawdziwego, Boga swojego królewskiego rodu – Jahwe.Ale jego droga do Św...

Życie wygnańców w Babilonie zostaje niespodziewanie zagrożone. Zgodnie z królewskim dekretem na terenie całego imperium ma zostać zgładzona każda osoba pochodzenia żydowskiego, włącznie z kobietami i dziećmi. Wyrok dokona się w czasie krótszym niż rok. Ezdrasz, cichy, ale błyskotliwy uczony, zostaje wezwany do tego, by zostać przywódcą swego ludu. Zostaje zmuszony do zmobilizowania armii. W związku z tym, że całe dotychczasowe życie spędził na studiowaniu Tory, to zadanie zda...