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Imagine an organized gang of thieves, ruthless, working together like a modern machine, run by one man referred to only as „Golden Face."This tale...

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Warm, brilliant, and cloudless was the July noon. Beneath the summer sun the broad, shallow waters of the Meuse sparkled as they rippled swiftly onward...

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No second glance was needed to realise the pitiful truth. The man seated there in his fine library, with the summer sunset slanting across the red carpet...

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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...

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In this story I have dealt with an extraordinary phase of modern life in London, which to the majority will come as a startling revelation. Some will,...

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Though it was a gay comic opera that was being performed for the first time, entertainers and entertained lost all interest in each other. They were...

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”The Ladybird will refuse to have anything to do with the affair, my dear fellow. It touches a woman’s honour, and I know her too well.” „Bah! We’ll...

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Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion...

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Thrice hath the Fast of Ramadan come and gone since the Granter of Requests last allowed my eyes to behold the well-remembered landscape, scarcely...

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Though it was a gay comic opera that was being performed for the first time, entertainers and entertained lost all interest in each other. They were...

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A grey, sunless morning on the Firth of Tay. Across a wide, sandy waste stretching away to the misty sea at Budden, four men were walking. Two wore...

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The style ofThe Day of Temptationis very melodramatic and overwritten – adjectives and adverbs abound to the confusion of the reader. The book is very...

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I sometimes despair of the country ever becoming alive to the danger of the unpreparedness of our present position until too late to prevent some fatal...

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I sometimes despair of the country ever becoming alive to the danger of the unpreparedness of our present position until too late to prevent some fatal...

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„The Council of Justice” is the sequel to much-lauded „The Four Just Men”, a novel which caused a sensation way back in 1905 by encouraging readers to...

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„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...

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A short but interesting detective story. Dick Martin plans for an early retirement from the police force seeking a quite life. His final job is to bring...

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„The Brigand” (1927) is a collection of a dozen fast-paced, frothy crime capers set in a Britain still reeling from 1926’s General Strike. An excellent...

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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...