Po koszmarnym postrzale Bruno Salt przestał istnieć, lecz dzięki FBI narodził się jako nowy człowiek. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że plan federalnych się powiódł. Były bokser od kilku lat prowadzi...
Five people were seated around a table in the private office of a well-known solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn. Their expressions and general attitude were sufficiently disturbed to suggest that their...
Mr. Samuel T. Billingham of New York, recently landed from the great liner anchored a few miles out, walked along the Terrace at Monte Carlo, serene, light-hearted, beatifically content. His yellow...
Mr. Roger Ferrison has just returned to London after several years of living rough in Canada. He takes a small room in the boarding house run aby Mrs. Dewar. There he meets the bewitching invalid...
This is a very clever collection of linked stories aby E. Phillips Oppenheim written in 1913. Algernon Knox, pretty young, dapper, seemingly silly, has failed at everything. Although wealthy, he...
„The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead” is a collection of connected stories about Mendel Honeywood, a diminutive insurance agent who skips out on his family and his hometown of Okehampstead,...
Sir Joseph is a brilliant surgeon from Australia who went mad after operating on vast numbers of soldiers during World War 1. His terrible hobby is cutting people’s heads open to steal bits of...
General Besserley sat before his writing-table, drawn close up to the wide-flung windows of his summer-house, his pen clasped in his idle fingers, his eyes wandering though a tangle of drooping...
Jules Lawler włącza się w pomoc potrzebującym. Jako pracownica opieki społecznej obserwuje dzieci z ulicy, aby nie stoczyły się na dno. W Denver, w którym aż roi się od dilerów narkotyków i...
Joseph P. Cray is an American manufacturer who has just completed a year serving coffee to the troops in France during World War 1. He is motivated aby good will, and also to escape his American...
Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant with green leaves and a cluster of queer little brown beans hanging...
Indy Savage, właścicielka niewiele znaczącej księgarni, ma wszystko, o czym mogłaby zamarzyć. No… prawie. Do pełni szczęścia brakuje jej tylko jednego – najprzystojniejszego mężczyzny, jakiego...
A best-selling author of novels, short stories, magazine articles, translations, and plays, Oppenheim published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his...
This early work from the „prince of storytellers” E. Phillips Oppenheim published as a novel in 1897. Mr. Norman Scott is a young, hardworking, distinguished physician with a busy practice in...
„The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown” is an 1896 novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Following the apparent murder of a man, a novelist comes under suspicion. Very enjoyable period...
Felicja odzyskuje pamięć, a wraz z nią chce odzyskać męża. Okazuje się jednak, że współorganizacja jego ucieczki z więzienia to za niewiele; Alex jest przekonany, iż wolność zawdzięcza Michaelowi....
The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street,...
Alicja oskarża Kostę o zdradę, ale ten uparcie twierdzi,za każdym razem był jej wierny i iż ktoś postanowił go wrobić. Rodzina za każdym razem była dla niego najważniejsza – to jego najsłabszy...
General, his companion pronounced, „you are getting fat. Too many cocktails.” General Besserley, late of the Secret Service at Washington and now a very popular member of Monaco society, glanced...
This is a connected collection of short stories about the leader of a secret society pledged to protect England and their German adversary. In „The Double Four”, Peter is called out of retirement...
A series of stories telling about the graceful crimes of a high class robber, a forger, a robber, a murderer. Stories in each of which are the same criminal, but under different names travels...
The two men hesitated upon the tee, gazing down the glade towards the distant-green. Their caddies were still pointing in excitement to a motionless object stretched upon the smooth turf close to...
To nie żarty, to nie przelewki, tu się dzieje, i to jak! W roku 2014 Daniel Wyrwa był jeszcze żołnierzem 6. Batalionu Powietrzno-Desantowego w Gliwicach, a Maria Zimnicka – należycie zapowiadającą...