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One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. Wallaces Sergeant Sir Peter is a collection of stories about...
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other...
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...
The hero, the discharged Army Captain Reginald Hex, was the prototype for Anthony Newland, whose adventures were related several years later in The Brigand (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927). The first two Hex stories were revised and published as Anthony...
The hapless Heine is trying very hard to be a good German spy in Great Britain during WWI but luck and circumstance are not with him. Every adventure turns out poorly for our dear spy. This collection of stories of...
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...
Zbiór opowiadań amerykańskiego poety i nowelisty Edgara Allana Poe. Twórca tak zwanego czarnego romantyzmu w swoich utworach zabiera czytelników w świat pełen grozy i niepokoju. Buduje wnikliwe studia ludzkiej psychiki wystawianej na ekstremalne sytuacje. W tytułowej noweli spotykamy pierwszą w...
Edgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. The story Pollyooly. A Romance of Long Felt Wants and the Red Haired Girl...
This early work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset in 1908, and subsequently novelized by Leblanc and then translated by Edgar Jepson into English and published in 1909. Leblancs creation, gentleman thief Arsene...
Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally for his entertaining mainstream detective and adventure stories, although he also wrote two fantasies, The Horned Shepherd and The Garden...
This novel was first published in 1920 and is along the lines of a classic whodunnit. Lord Loudwater is brash, short tempered and always bullying people. He was loved by none, feared by many and hated by all. When he...
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl is a bride story. Jepson continues the story of his twelve year-old heroine, Mary Bride, known as Pollyooly. She is still acting as housekeeper to the Honorable John Ruffin, keeping his rooms spotlessly...
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...
Brawurową kradzież klejnotów koronnych z londyńskiej Tower, romans angielskiego oficera zakochanego w tajemniczej kobiecie o podejrzanej reputacji, śledztwo prowadzone przez dociekliwego inspektora Scotland Yardu oraz harem egzotycznego księcia Orientu - to wszystko znajdziemy w Bramie zdrajcówEdgara Wallace'a, autora wielu bardzo...
Pewien bankrutujący londyński handlowiec Mr. Narth otrzymuje list z dalekich Chin. Jest to rodzaj testamentu, w którym bogaty krewny zapisuje mu majątek w wysokości miliona funtów. Jest jednak pewien warunek: wspólnika umierającego krewnego musi poślubić jedna z jego córek. Fortuną...
Johnny Gray po prawie dwóch latach opuszcza więzienie, do którego trafił za sprawą Wielkiego Drukarza – enigmatycznej postaci, którą zna zaledwie kilka osób, a poszukuje policja i banki w całej Europie. Po powrocie Johnny kieruje pierwsze kroki do domu swojego...