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The Box with Broken Seals – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
„The Box with Broken Seals” is a thrilling cat and mouse murder mystery following the narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. This skillfully written and an exciting espionage story of intrigue, unfolding in the Oppenheim’s best style. The reader will follow with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the „City of Boston,” accompanied by a dying man and...Data dostępności:
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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.Data dostępności:
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The Phantom Launch – ebook
Aidan de Brune
There is always a special thrill of excitement about a mystery story, especially when the main characters cover their tracks successfully. „The Phantom Launch” is an Australian story through and through, its main setting being Sydney and Melbourne, and the swiftness and sureness with which both the launch people and amateur sleuths act will keep the reader breathless. Wireless plays an important part...Data dostępności:
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The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman – ebook
Edgar Wallace
Larry Loman is a member of the Criminal Investigation Department of New Scotland Yard. While on a special assignment in Asia he contracts a form of malaria that causes him to suffer character-changing bouts of amnesia for up to eight hours at a stretch. When Larry is assigned to deal with the Crime Trust, a syndicate which has gathered just about every crook in England into one organization, his periodic...Data dostępności:
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The Canterville Ghost – ebook
Oscar Wilde
A family of flag-flaunting United States acquire an historic English mansion from the thoroughly prim, thoroughly British Lord Canterville. Throw in a murderous, aesthetically-minded ghost with a penchant for high drama and theater, and you have a classic, joy-inducing tale of clashing cultures, progress vs. tradition, and Wilde’s self-mockery of his own philosophy of decadent aestheticism. Wilde emphasized...Data dostępności:
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Surviving Belize – ebook
Let me take you to the jungle in Belize. This is not by any means a safe location. Sweaty, stifling green hell is around. Anything that flies is trying to get to your blood. Anything that crawls and hisses can get at you. You will learn the secrets of stalking the enemy in a jungle, and the art of survival in extreme conditions where even one minor mistake can cost you life. Three weeks...Data dostępności:
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The Scandal of Father Brown – ebook
G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series are not as compact as those in other books, notably „The Innocence of Father Brown,” but they have the same magnetic power to draw the reader in. As ever, Chesterton is interested not only in delivering first...Data dostępności:
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Komandosi Hitlera. Niemieckie siły specjalne w czasie II wojny światowej – ebook
James Lucas
Na morzach Niemcy rzucili do walki flotylle „żywych torped” i kutrów wypełnionych materiałami wybuchowymi. W powietrzu z pierwszych sprawnych samolotów odrzutowych zorganizowali eskadry mające powstrzymać aliancką ofensywę bombową. Z kolei na lądzie elitarne, świetnie wyszkolone i śmiałe jednostki „Brandenburg” przenikały daleko na nieprzyjacielskie tyły, a pod koniec wojny...Data dostępności:
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Oriental Studies and Arts. Contributions Dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Majda on His 85th Birthday – ebook
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"This volume is respectfully dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Majda, a renowned scholar in the fields of Oriental Studies and Art History. His numerous publications attest to his preeminent scholarly standing. But it is not the high number of his books and articles that alone mark him as a true teacher and a man of knowledge. It is the position he holds among his learned colleagues; the intense interest...Data dostępności:
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Russian doctrine of international law after the annexation of Crimea – ebook
Oleksandr Zadorozhnii
The monograph is a comprehensive study of approaches adopted by the Russian doctrine of international law regarding the 2013-2015 events which are directly or indirectly connected with international legal relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation – the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, the use of force by Russia in Crimea, the annexation of the peninsula, and the armed conflict in parts...Data dostępności:
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