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Mr. Poskitt’s Nightcaps – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
The idea behind this book is that before going to bed, Yorkshire farmer Mr. Poskitt liked to tell a little story or „nightcap”. Thus, J.S. Fletcher recorded and collected these stories in this book. There is a hilarious story, tales of robbing money and arguing over wills, orphan pigs running around the village causing havoc, broken hearts and jealous lovers, and misers and men trying to make a fo...Data dostępności:
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Scarhaven Keep – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
This novel, first published in 1922, is a good example of J. S. Fletcher’s complex plots. The story starts with a famous actor gone missing in suspicious circumstances in northern England. But other dark deeds soon take our attention. Copplestone, the young dramatist, helping to solve the mystery, found himself suddenly in love; and the solution and his happiness were discovered together. In the search...Data dostępności:
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In The Mayor’s Parlour – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
This is a story of graft and corruption set in one of Fletchers favoured Northern towns. The mayor who is on a clean-up campaign is found dead in his parlour and our hero, his younger cousin, is determined to find out who killed him. Was he eliminated for this reason? There are entanglements involving city officials and his proposed reforms plus jealousy related to relationships. Lots of twists with...Data dostępności:
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward – ebook
H.P. Lovecraft
Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge. As the story progresses, the full extent of Charles Dexter Ward’s madness is slowly revealed until the evil of the past seems ready to burst into the present with horrific consequences. Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established...Data dostępności:
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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...Data dostępności:
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Osobliwe zdarzenia. Zbiór opowiadań – ebook
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"Bez wątpienia będziesz zaskoczony, drogi przyjacielu, przedmiotem niniejszej opowieści. [...] Muszę zatem udzielić ci pełnomocnictwa i wyjawić szczerze, na jakich podstawach opiera się wiarygodność dziwnej historii, którą zamierzam tu opowiedzieć". Ludowe opowieści, przekazywane z wioski do wioski i z pokolenia na pokolenie. Irlandzkie baśni i legendy. Mrożące krew w żyłach historie wymyślone przez...Data dostępności:
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The Vanished Messenger – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the world’s most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as „Joseph”. This is a thrilling...Data dostępności:
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The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull in response to an urgent telegram from his cousin. As he nears Hull, a beautiful woman stops his car to ask for directions to Scotland. Odd time to be traveling so far and in such a hurry, but Allerdyke’s mind is elsewhere. When he finally arrives in Hull, he finds his cousin dead in his hotel room and a valuable consignment of jewels...Data dostępności:
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The Middle of Things – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
Viner stumbles upon the body of a murdered man whilst just following through his ordinary day routines. Little does he know that this find would make him a key figure in solving a big mystery. Well its soon discovered that the murdered man’s name was Ashton and some important documents were stolen from him, but the true purpose for killing him and his real identity and that of his charge, make for...Data dostępności:
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The Borough Treasurer – ebook
Joseph Smith Fletcher
„The Borough Treasurer” (1921) by J.S. Fletcher is a tale of blackmail, murder and a secret quarry. He has quite a large cast of interesting characters in this one, and manages to bring them all to life with great detail. This novel tales place in an obscure small town by the Yorkshire moors – an ideal spot for two ex-cons to start life over. Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had...Data dostępności:
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