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okładka The Step on the Stair, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

„I had turned the corner at Thirty-fifth Street and was halfway down the block in my search for a number I had just taken from the telephone book when my attention was suddenly diverted by the quick movements and peculiar aspect of a man whom I saw plunging from the doorway of a large office-building some fifty feet or so ahead of me”.

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okładka Miss Hurd, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

The story of a strange, impenetrable, charming woman. Miss Hurd is certainly a very unusual person: „Miss Hurd in the garb of a working woman, and with a working woman’s bundle in her lap, but striking as ever in her appearance – possibly more so, –and as conspicuous among the mass of commonplace people surrounding her as she had ever been when clad in the habiliments of a lady and moving among persons of her own rank in life”.

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okładka Marked „Personal”, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

Intoxicated by success, the crowd walked along the street, screaming and screaming, while broken glasses and women’s cries marked her progress. In a few minutes they will be ahead. Suddenly a second doorbell rang. This time the negro stopped before opening it.

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okładka Doctor Izard, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

Mary Earle’s mother passed away and then her father disappeared when she was very young. Now, after many years, being „adult” and not having her own money in her youth, she receives a rather large amount of money. Who wished this money and why? Of course, in this small town in Massachusetts there is a secret that happened many years ago!

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okładka Behind Closed Doors, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

The last part of the book includes a chase that ends with a terrible snowstorm. The problem with this is that the „twist” discovered at the end is what the reader will suspect long before Mr. Grice does. She explains in detail the heart and souls of all her characters – even Detective Grace.

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okładka A Matter of Millions, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

The main plot of the story is a dying man and his will. Having no relatives, the man wants to give his money to someone worthy and resembling a woman whom he loved and lost too early. Most of the book is devoted to various actions of the characters, reactions and plans for this money – millions in the title. The book also has a love story.

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okładka 7 to 12, Ebook | Anna Katharine Green

A tall, elegant middle-aged woman sat in front of a mirror, and the finishing touches of her rich toilet seat young woman were kneeling on the floor next to her. The noted picture, and this is not from belonging to the wealth and splendor observed everywhere, but from the character of two persons who, although of completely different composition, and possibly belong to the two extremes of society, were both remarkable for their strength and individuality of expression, but al...

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okładka The Last Vendée, Ebook | Alexandre Dumas

The scene takes place in 1832, just 40 years after the fall of the royal family and about 15 years after the fall of Napoleon. There are we have characters who are designed to fight, perhaps for the last time, to ask the royal family again. This book focuses on a specific area in France, not in France as a whole.

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okładka The Mirror of the Sea, Ebook | Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad’s Mirror of the Sea was a compelling read. From love to death, Conrad explains all this, using his life in the sea to match the human condition. The Mirror of the Sea is mainly about the adventures of Joseph Conrad when he was at sea. In the adventures described above, the author discusses the risks, struggles and dangers of sailing for sailors. While he and the crew sailed, they often encounter a great terrible storm. Sailors always run the risk of a storm, and...

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okładka A Personal Record, Ebook | Joseph Conrad

”A Personal Record” is the story of the design and manuscript of „Caprice Olmeyer,” Conrad’s first novel, as well as the story of his dream about the sea, and the story of his cousin who ate a dog, and the story of a beloved dog presented to his son, but above all, – the story of the novel „The Olmeyer Caprice”, and the strange prototype of the hero of this novel, and a few more words about the man who was the first reader of this novel. At the same time, „A Personal Record” ...

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okładka Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends with a Biographical Sketch, Ebook | Anton Czechow

Correspondence with Knipper is interesting not only as a chronicle of the last years of Chekhov’s life, not only as a valuable source of information about the first years of the Art Theater. Knipper took an exceptional place in Chekhov’s spiritual life in recent years, and letters to her most fully reflect his inner world in those years, to the extent that Chekhov generally considered it necessary to open this inner world to other, even closest people. In letters to his wife,...

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okładka The Titan, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

„Titan” is the second part of Theodore Dreiser’s famous „Trilogy of Desire”, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire C. Yerkes, who played a significant role in the development of the public transport system in Chicago and the London Underground.

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okładka The Two Destinies, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The heroes of the novel love each other since childhood, but evil fate separates them for many years. Having managed to keep their feelings pure, the lovers, having gone through all the trials, finally connect their lives.

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okładka Twelve Men, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

Twelve Men – biographical stories. Each story individually is an autobiographical essay, a portrait of an individual. If we consider the works as a whole, as a collection, then we can trace the history of the author’s life: adolescence in Indiana, work as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer, worker at a railway station, magazine editor.

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okładka The New Magdalen, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The adopted daughter of a wealthy aristocrat is a beauty who is waiting for a profitable marriage. What is her past hiding? Will the Princess have the courage to turn into Cinderella, to sacrifice love and wealth?

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okładka The Queen of Hearts, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

A novel about a young woman, Jessie Yelverton (also known as the Queen of Hearts), aged 20, who soon inherits an inheritance from her dead parents. Due to a strange set of circumstances, Jessie is forced to stay at her caregiver’s house for six weeks until her 21st birthday. The guardian’s name is Griffith, he is a lawyer and lives with his two older brothers.

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okładka The Financier, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

The protagonist of the novel, Frank Kovperwood, begins to do business at school, and as an adult, he moves on to stock speculation. And although he is tried for breaking the law, and he ends up in prison, the hero does not feel guilty at all.

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okładka The Guilty River, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

Gerard Roiland, a typical Collins outsider, returns from college in Germany to take over his family estate at Trimley Dean and falls inappropriately in love with Kristel Toller, the daughter of one of his tenants. There is a mysterious deaf tenant who is also after Christelle.

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okładka The Legacy of Cain, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

This book not only wants to thrill its readers with a chilling story, but also touches on social issues – in this case, the debate about whether there is a tendency to crime in a person. Blood is the genetic code, or can it be successfully counteracted by compassionate and virtuous parenting.

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okładka The Dead Secret, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The mistress of the old estate – the Portgen Tower – dies, leaving a dying letter in which she makes a fatal confession. The discovery of this secret can have truly tragic consequences for all the inhabitants of the estate. But the maid, hoping to keep the peace of her masters, hides the letter in the old abandoned room of the castle – the Dead Room. Many years will pass before the Dead Room will part with its terrible secret.

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okładka The Evil Genius, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

There is literally no such thing as an evil genius, just a lot of depressed people who were not lucky enough to live in the 1800s. This is a historical family drama. A very abrupt end. It’s never quite clear who the evil genius is. But he certainly gave us a clear idea of just how devastating adultery can be.

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okładka The Fallen Leaves, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

Full of noble aspirations, a young graduate of the American Christian Community, Amelius Goldenhart, comes to his homeland in England. Here he falls in love with Regina, the niece of the wealthy merchant Farneby, but, having learned selfishness and cruelty, the hypocrisy of the world, he gives his heart to the destitute, lonely girl Sally – one of the representatives of the „fallen leaves” of bourgeois society.

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okładka The Black Robe, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The novel The Black Robe tells the story of a young rich heir who has fallen into the net of the Catholic Church. Only the devotion of his wife and love for his son allowed Luis Romain to throw off his heavy fetters and make the right decision.

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okładka No Name, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

A tragic incident leaves a girl from an aristocratic family without the right not only to an inheritance, but even to a family name. But the talented and energetic beauty is not going to surrender to the will of fate – she will throw all her ingenuity and desperate audacity into the cause of restoring justice. True, for this you have to give up a lot...

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okładka Poor Miss Finch, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

A novel about the fate of a blind girl who dreams of finding happiness. How many difficulties she has to overcome on the path of life! Deception of a loved one, betrayal of loved ones, sudden blindness – a series of tragic circumstances that haunt the heroine.

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okładka Sister Carrie, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

Theodore Dreiser is a famous American prose writer, publicist and public figure. This is the story of the rise of the main character, the young provincial Caroline Meeber, achieved at the cost of numerous moral compromises, and the descent of the manager of a prestigious bar, George Hurstwood, to the bottom of life.

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okładka The „Genius”, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

The hero of the novel is a talented artist Eugene Vitla overcomes a thorny path to his goal of becoming a recognized artist. Experiencing ups and downs, Eugene gives an assessment of the life of a creative person in a capitalist society. Describes the life of the American elite and ordinary workers, whom the hero has to face on the path of life, against the backdrop of difficult family relationships. However, he did not break down after he experienced mental and creative cris...

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okładka My Lady’s Money, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The novel „My Lady’s Money” continues the detective line of Collins’ work: this time it is about investigating the loss of a 500-pound banknote, during the search for which the honest name of poor Isabella, suspected of stealing money, was defamed.

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okładka I Say No, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

This is a typical English Victorian novel. The action takes place in a women’s closed boarding house, the main characters are girls, one of them will turn out to be of aristocratic origin, the other will have a passionate affair with an unrecognized artist.. in a word, everything we expect from Victorian novels is passion, moralizing, trials, censure of vices and exaltation of virtues.

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okładka Jennie Gerhardt, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

This is the story of an innocent beautiful young woman from the poorest family, who throughout her life is associated with men of high social status. How her family members react to such a connection became the basis of the plot. The novel takes place over several decades.

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okładka Jezebel’s Daughter, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The heroine of the novel, Mina, the only daughter of Madame de Fontaine, is in love with Fritz. But Fritz’s father is opposed to his son’s marriage and believes that Mina and her mother encroached on the family’s wealth. Suddenly, the groom’s father, Mr. Koehler, falls ill, and Madame de Fontaine gives the sick man a miraculous medicine. She cures him of a fatal illness. But this medicine turns out to be an antidote. Who poisoned Herr Koehler?

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okładka Little Novels, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

These are Victorian melodramas set in England with a strong focus on the class system, but in the end that’s what makes the stories so special. There are several common themes of Wilkie Collins, including the general theme of the return of a character presumed dead. Great for readers of Victorian fiction.

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okładka Man and Wife, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The novel is set in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Due to the imperfection of the marriage legislation of England, Ireland and Scotland and the presence of conflicting articles in it, a woman becomes a victim of her scoundrel husband, and then her daughter falls into the same situation many years later. But fate, although cruel, is fair – with the help of friends, the girl manages to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, save her life and find her happiness.

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okładka Mr Wray’s Cash Box, or, the Mask and the Mystery, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

This is a very hilarious story by Wilkie Collins. This book reads like sensational journalism from the 1800s or an old radio show. The characters are fun and cute, and the story moves quickly and leaves you with a smile on your face.

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okładka Heart and Science, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

Mrs. Galileo is engaged in various studies and spends much more than she can afford. Suddenly, Mrs. Galileo receives custody of her niece Carmina, in her plans to never let the guardianship out of her hands. The doctor’s secret experiments in vivisection lead to the fact that a young girl becomes infected with a terrible virus.

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okładka Hide and Seek, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

Hide and Seek is a story about love, betrayal, hardship and forgiveness. Mr. Valentine Blyth is an artist. While working in the countryside, painting portraits of babies and sometimes portraits of horses, he meets a deaf-mute girl named Mary.

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okładka Blind Love, Ebook | Walter Besant, Wilkie Collins

The loving heart of the protagonist of the novel, Iris, remains faithful to the master of her destiny. The conflict with the father does not prevent the lovers from connecting, but how does this story end?

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okładka After Dark, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

„When Night Falls” is a complex novel. Six fascinating stories, full of mystery and tension, are collected by the author into a single picture, worthy of taking its place among the most exquisite works of classic English literature. The stories consist of formal introductions to each story, including character sketches of the alleged narrators, a fictional portrait painter taking a break from sore eyes, and diary entries of the artist’s wife.

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okładka An American Tragedy, Ebook | Dreiser Theodore

The book shows the journey from the American Dream to the American Tragedy. And this path is shown through the life of an ordinary young man, Clyde Griffiths. Clyde, a young man from a poor large family of street preachers, not alien to vanity, pride, but deprived of education, ends up in Lycurgus, where he receives a position in a factory of wealthy relatives. Here he meets and becomes close to the worker Roberta Alden, a sweet, modest girl. From that moment on, everything c...

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okładka Armadale, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

The hero of the novel, Armadel, decides how to deceive fate, become loved and fall in love for life. The mysteries of life are the mysteries of love, which are presented to us by the main characters of the novel, and it is up to the readers to decide which characters to side with. A cry of passion or the silent restraint of love – this is how the heroes of the novel behave.

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okładka A Rogue’s Life, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

This is a charming and highly readable novel written in the middle of the 19th century. This novel also combines the adventure and twists of a novel with a moderately upper-class protagonist. Frank sees work life as a problem, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed in medicine, portraiture, caricature, and even forgery. Disillusioned with life, he despaired of finding something to do until he met Alicia Dulcifer.

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okładka Basil, Ebook | Wilkie Collins

A young aristocrat falls in love with a shopkeeper’s daughter and is forced to hide his marriage to her from his relatives because of the existing class inequality. The hero of the novel is subjected to countless trials, which lead some of the characters to a tragic end.

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okładka The Woman from Outside, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

A woman goes on a secret errand into the far Northwest. Before it is accomplished the usual characters come into the story – Indians, mounted police, and the villain. Written by Hulbert Footner who was an Edmonton journalist and travelled the northwest before it was settled. Published in 1921, it is a fascinating eye-witness view of the times and attitudes of northern trappers and traders, including the colonial view of Native Peoples.

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okładka Tracked and Taken, Ebook | Dick Donovan

James Edward Preston Muddock also known as „Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock” and „Dick Donovan” (1843-1934) was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of Muddock’s stories featured his continuing character Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. Other works include these short stories as well.

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okładka Tracked to Doom, Ebook | Dick Donovan

There are peaceful people and there are passionate people, and once in a while you encounter someone who is beyond passionate, and probably murderous. Such people often make very clever predators, changing name and lifestyle like chameleons. How many will you meet in this story? How many spies? Will the detective or the „clever people” prevail? Read on and discover the trail.

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okładka Wanted!, Ebook | Dick Donovan

„Wanted! A Detective’s Strange Adventures”, by James Edward Muddock (Dick Donovan), is a collection of 22 short stories. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels, exposing villainous conspiracies and solving dastardly murders!

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okładka The Substitute Millionaire, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

A multimillionaire Silas Gyde was killed by an anarchist’s bomb and Jack Norman found himself Silas Gyde’s sole heir and the richest man in New York. The inheritance included a warning from his benefactor about an elaborate protection scheme promising to protect the wealthy from anarchists, in which Gyde had declined to enroll. Jack enlists a out-of-work actor to take on his own identity, while he, in the guise of Jack Norman’s secretary, works furiously behind the scenes to ...

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okładka The Huntress, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

„The Huntress” written by Hulbert Footner who was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920. Published in 1922, here a frontier love story with a tough, but intriguing heroine and a reluctant, at first weak, but eventually ...

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okładka The Man from Manchester, Ebook | Dick Donovan

The book, written in the 19 c. by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is about a married gentleman, first accused of murder of his lover and later acquitted due to brilliant investigation by police in spite of alleged heavy evidence against the gentleman. The real murder, ex-husband of the victim, is pretty evident to the reader.

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okładka The Owl Taxi, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car. Humor, espionage, romance, and adventure make this novel thrilling.

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okładka The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch of the Russian Secret Service, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Dick Donovan was a pseudonym used by (Mr) Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock (1842-1934). Muddock was also a journalist and wrote many other books. His series characters included not only Dick Donovan, the Glasgow Detective, but also Russian Secret Service agent Michael Danevitch, Vincent Trill of the Detective Service, private detective Tyler Tatlock and early forensic criminologist Fabian Field among others. „The Chronicles of Michael Danevitch of the Russian Secret Service” is...

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okładka The Clue of the Dead Hand, Ebook | Dick Donovan

”The Clue of the Dead Hand” novela features detective Peter Brodie and has a Scottish setting. It tells of a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance at Corbie Hall, „a strange, weird sort of place...” that has „an eeriness about it... calculated to make one shudder.” As much a rationalized ghost story as a detective story, it also involves male impersonation.

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okładka The Deaves Affair, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

„The Deaves Affair” by Hulbert Footner. A millionnaire family is attacked by a blackmailer. They will be ruined if he always succeeds. A young struggling artist in New York City Evan is engaged to protect the old man from the crowd and from their blunders. But he had to play the role of a detective to help this family to discover the romantically inclined mystery in this affair. Will he succeed?

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okładka The Folded Paper Mystery, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

Nick Peters was a repairer of watches who fond of friendly arguments with Fin Corveth, a free-lance journalist. One day Peters is murdered, and Corveth finds himself involved in a baffling mystery in which a little brass ball plays an important part for the little brass ball conceals an emerald locket, which in turn conceals a blank square of folded paper. It becomes clear that greater events are afoot than simple murder...

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okładka The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle, Ebook | Cliffford Ashdown

Austin Freeman and Dr. John James Pitcairn, a medical office at Halloway Prison, writing under the common pseudonym, Clifford Ashdown. This mystery collection is the first work of Freeman and it is a delightful bundle of adventures features the gentleman criminal Romney Pringle, an engaging crook and literary agent who lives in Furnival’s Inn, cycling everywhere no matter what the scam! This series of six stories feature many colourful, bizarre characters from the Chicago Hei...

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okładka The Adventures of Romney Pringle, Ebook | Cliffford Ashdown

From the author of the Thorndyke detective stories. The stories follow the adventures of Romney Pringle, a gentleman con man, thief and master of disguises–who is not above using his keen observation and wits to track down other criminals. These twelve tales conjure up the authentic atmosphere of Victorian London and offer a thrilling alternative to the ascetic honesty of Sherlock Holmes!

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okładka The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Dick Donovan’s detective was considered a great ‘rival’ to Holmes. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. „The Adventures of Tyler Tatlock, Private Detective” is a thrilling collection of mystery and adventure tales (21 in all) including „The Queensferry Mystery” in which a series of remarkable house burglaries take place during the winter months in Edinburgh. This series also includes Sherlockian titles such as „The Sign of the Yello...

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okładka Suspicion Aroused, Ebook | Dick Donovan

This collection dates from 1893 and includes 13 short stories written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. Many of Muddock’s mystery stories feature the character Dick Donovan, a Glasgow Detective, named for one of the 18th Century Bow Street Runners. The character was so popular that later stories were published under this pen name. Muddock also wrote true crime stories, horror, and 37 novels, most as „Dick Donovan.”

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okładka Ramshackle House, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

Traveling through southern Florida, a New Yorker Don Counsel is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holding the real killer captive on his yacht while detectives are searching for Counsel. Meanwhile a young Pen Broome tries to help Counsel out. Riever’s men find Counsel and trap him in a ballast bulkhead, but Pen rescues him. Will Counsel be able to prove his innocence?

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okładka Riddles Read, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Written by James Edward Preston Murdock (1843–1934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle – and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. This collection of short stories dates from 1896: 1: In the Shadow of Sudden Death, 2: The Doom of the Star-gazer, 3: The Strange Story of Some State Papers, 4: The Problem of Dead Wood Hall, 5: Trapped, 6: The Riddle of Beaver’s Hill, 7: A Railway Mystery, 8: ...

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okładka Out There, Ebook | Dick Donovan

„The heart of a man is full of hypocrisy; the heart of Nature is utterly without guile”. Harold Preston discovers this when he goes prospecting for gold in the uncharted bush with a rival he considered a friend. This is a fairly decent tale of jealousy, betrayal and vengeance written by a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction James Edward Preston Muddock also known as „Dick Donovan” (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934).

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okładka Found and Fettered, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Found and Fettered – A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories is a collection of short stories dates from 1894 written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.

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okładka From a Surgeon’s Diary, Ebook | Cliffford Ashdown

Meet the widow anxious to bury her husband before the autopsy, the artist who’s brushes have never been used, the bedridden drunk who contracts lead poisoning from a pub miles away. These strange stories are designed to baffle the mind and entertain the crime buff and newcomer alike. Set in the early days of the nineteenth century, the six tales here take place in various parts of rural England -- wherever the young physician-detective’s assignments take him.

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okładka From Clue To Capture, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. In these thrilling stories, Muddock writes under the guise of his fictional alter ego – the private detective Dick Donovan. From the murky underworld of Victorian London to the grand houses of the upper classes, Donovan investigates crime in all its forms, recovering priceless jewels, exposing villainous conspiracies and solving dastardly murders!

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okładka A Gilded Serpent, Ebook | Dick Donovan

Before Sherlock Holmes there was Dick Donovan. The name struck terror into the hearts of thieves, murderers, fences, swindlers and criminals of every class, and his exploits gave delight to millions worldwide from 1888 onwards. This second volume of the Dick Donovan adventures collects three novels and a short story, written by British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction J. E. Preston Muddock. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur...

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okładka A Self-Made Thief, Ebook | Hulbert Footner

A strange and inescapable force lures Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer, on to life of crime, and he finds his lovely rescuer in a denizen of the underworld where they join forces. The development of Frank’s criminal career and the way he goes from theft and blackmail to drugs and finally murder makes as thrilling and absorbing a tale as Hulbert Footner ever wrote – with a smashing surprise at the very end.

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okładka A Detective’s Triumphs, Ebook | Dick Donovan

„A Detective’s Triumphs” (1891) by Dick Donovan – eleven intriguing detective short stories including: The Mystery of Surgeon-Major Palmer; The Great Ruby Robbery; The Abduction, etc. Dick Donovan is the pseudonym of British author James Edward Preston Muddock (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934) who created a private detective, also named Dick Donovan, in the 1890s. Dick Donovan achieved an international reputation as the master sleuth, and is reputedly responsible for American d...

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okładka Votes for Men, Ebook | Mary Cholmondeley

‟Votes for Men” by Mary Cholmondeley, a tribute to the famous suffragist play „Votes for Women”. It begins with „in two hundred years, maybe less,” which tells you everything you need to know about this suffrage era suffrage allegory.

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okładka The Lowest Rung, Ebook | Mary Cholmondeley

This book focuses on the social exclusion and marginalization of respectable women in the context of their response to risk. Of the four stories included in the collection, three deal with crime, deviance, or both.

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okładka The Magic Casket, Ebook | R. Austin Freeman

The Magic Casket – Thorndike solves the mystery of the box in order to locate a jewel stolen from a client and get rid of the dastardly Japanese who are after them in every way.

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okładka The Puzzle Lock, Ebook | R. Austin Freeman

A gang of jewel thieves has come to the attention of the police. Will Dr. Thorndike be able to find the leader and the jewels? It would seem that the jewel merchant has a strong room with a puzzle lock where there are too many combinations to solve. But can it be done.

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okładka The Romance of His Life, Ebook | Mary Cholmondeley

There are eight unrelated shorts in this book. The author tells us about the cottage she lives in and the memorable experience she had during the war.

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Napięcie, zagadka, zbrodnia, śledztwo - literatura kryminalna to królestwo wyjątkowych postaci próbujących odkryć różnorakie tajemnice. I właśnie za to jest uwielbiana - najlepsze kryminały pełne są suspensu i nagłych zwrotów akcji, które sprawiają, że nie możemy się od nich oderwać. Choć początkowo kryminał uważany był za pośledniejszą, lekką rozrywkę dla osób, które chciały umilić sobie długie podróże, teraz to jeden z najpopularniejszych gatunków literackich. Czytanie kryminałów to przyjemność szczególnie dla miłośników silnych emocji - ale nie tylko! Niezwykle popularne są chociażby komedie kryminalne, sięgające po pastisz i groteskę, a równocześnie przedstawiające skomplikowane zbrodnie oraz ich okoliczności. W Polsce w tym obszarze królują Maryla Szymiczkowa (a raczej Jacek Dehnel i Piotr Tarczyński), Joanna Chmielewska, Alek Rogoziński czy Jacek Galiński. Do najchętniej czytanych polskich autorów kryminałów zaliczają się z pewnością Katarzyna Bonda, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Katarzyna Puzyńska, Remigiusz Mróz, Wojciech Chmielarz i Marek Krajewski. Nie sposób jednak mówić o bestellerach kryminalnych, nie wspominając o takich pisarzach jak Harlan Coben, czy Lee Child, a także znanych twórcach kryminałów skandynawskich, Camilli Läckberg, Stiegu Larssonie lub Jo Nesbø. Stworzone przez nich historie to gwarancja intensywnych wrażeń i wciągających opowieści - szukajcie ich na Woblinku w formatach książek papierowych, audiobooków oraz ebooków.

Wciągające powieści kryminalne? Poznajcie kryminały skandynawskie!

Ludzkie namiętności, niewyjaśnione morderstwa, tajemnicze zniknięcia bez śladu, zagadki sprzed lat - tylko niewielka grupa osób jest w stanie się z nimi zmierzyć i je rozwiązać. Do jednych z najchętniej czytanych w ostatnich latach na świecie powieści kryminalnych należą kryminały skandynawskie. Jo Nesbø, Camilla Läckberg, Arnaldur Indriðason, Lars Kepler, Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell i Yrsa Sigurðardóttir od pierwszych zdań pozwalają nam na zagłębienie się w krainy dalekiej Północy. Ten zimny, pełen ciemności świat pełen jest zbrodni i zdeterminowanych śledczych, gotowych ujawniać nawet najbardziej makabryczne i skomplikowane tajemnice. Kurt Wallander, Jona Linna czy Harry Hole to najlepsi przewodnicy po bestsellerowych seriach powstających w Szwecji, Danii, Norwegii czy Islandii. Sięgnijcie chociażby po Trylogię Millenium Stiega Larssona, by poznać najpopularniejszą skandynawską serię kryminalną XXI wieku. Na Woblink mamy dla Was pakiet wszystkich trzech tomów ("Mężczyźni, którzy nienawidzą kobiet", "Dziewczyna, która igrała z ogniem" i "Zamek z piasku, który runął") w formacie wygodnego audiobooka! Najlepsze współczesne kryminały często włączają do swoich fabuł elementy powieści sensacyjnych, zwłaszcza charakterystyczne jest dla nich użycie suspensu i nagłych zwrotów akcji. Kryminał jednak zawsze skupia się przede wszystkim na zbrodni - jej okolicznościach, przyczynach, a zwłaszcza na schwytaniu przestępcy. Nierzadko detektywi i policjanci mierzą się z przypadkiem seryjnego mordercy - tak dzieje się chociażby w serii powieści Remigiusza Mroza z komisarzem Wiktorem Forstem w roli głównej. Ebooki "Ekspozycja", "Przewieszenie" i "Trawers" to pierwotna trylogia opowiadająca historię komisarza, który niestrudzenie poszukuje na Podhalu zbrodniarza ochrzczonego mianem Bestii z Giewontu. Ci antybohaterowie, przez których działania odkrywane są coraz to nowe ciała zmarłych, odgrywają ogromną rolę w wielu najlepszych książkach kryminalnych. Niewątpliwie zasłużonym specjalistą od seryjnych zabójstw jest Harry Hole, główny bohater serii powieści autorstwa Jo Nesbø, bezkompromisowy i niepokorny policjant, który często używa niekonwencjonalnych sposobów by dotrzeć do prawdy. Ebooki z jego udziałem, takie jak "Czerwone gardło", "Upiory", "Pragnienie" czy "Krwawy księżyc" znajdziecie także w księgarni internetowej Woblink.

Najlepsze kryminały polskich twórców

Do najpopularniejszych autorów kryminałów należy wielu naszych rodzimych znakomitych pisarzy i pisarek. Wspomniany już Remigiusz Mróz jest jednym z nich - jego seria powieści z Joanną Chyłką w roli głównej zyskała tak dużą popularność, że doczekała się ekranizacji w postaci serialu. W polskich książkach kryminalnych znajdziecie wielu intrygujących bohaterów i zbrodnie, których skomplikowanie nie pozostawia polskich detektywów oraz policjantów daleko w tyle za ich zagranicznymi kolegami. Polacy świetnie radzą sobie z kryminałami retro - polecamy tutaj szczególnie powieści autorstwa Marka Krajewskiego z cyklu o Eberhardzie Mocku, do którego należą między innymi tomy "Śmierć w Breslau", "Mock. Golem", "Diabeł stróż" czy "Moloch".

Intrygujące powieści kryminalne

Do klasyki kryminału amerykańskiego, a także gatunku kryminału noir z pewnością zaliczyć należy dzieła Raymonda Chandlera - jego "Wysokie okno", "Żegnaj laleczko" czy "Siostrzyczka" to powieści, których popularność na świecie nie maleje od dekad. Jeśli interesują Was bardziej współczesne historie, na pewno przypadną Wam do gustu dzieła, których autorami są Harlan Coben i Lee Child. Powieści tego ostatniego, skupiające się wokół postaci byłego majora amerykańskiej żandarmerii wojskowej Jacka Reachera, to wyjątkowe połączenie kryminalnych zagadek, napięcia godnego thrillera i dynamiki charakterystycznej dla powieści sensacyjnych. Twórczość Harlana Cobena także przypadnie do gustu szczególnie miłośnikom mistrzowskich połączeń kryminału i sensacji, okraszonych dużą dawką humoru. Seria z Myronem Bolitarem w roli głównej, trylogia z bratankiem Myrona, Mickieyem, oraz liczne powieści autonomiczne Harlana Cobena czekają na Was niecierpliwie na Woblink! Polecamy Waszej uwadze także jeszcze jednego przedstawiciela kryminału skandynawskiego, Jørna Liera Horsta. Jest on autorem nie tylko popularnych powieści, których głównym bohaterem jest komisarz William Wisting (między innymi tomy "Kluczowy świadek" i "Psy gończe"), ale także powieści kryminalnych dla młodszych czytelników, takich jak seria "CLUE" czy "Biuro Detektywistyczne numer 2". Nieważne, czy sięgniecie po książki kryminalne jako książki papierowe, audiobooki czy ebooki - z pewnością najlepsze kryminały, które znajdziecie na Woblink dostarczą Wam niezapomnianej rozrywki. Pełne napięcia i wciągających zagadek nigdy nie pozwolą się Wam nudzić!