The basic plot of this book is built around the reputation the Lloyds of London insurance firm had for ensuring all manner of unlikely propositions. Lord Harrowby is advised to marry a wealthy heiress. Luckily he meets Cynthia. She is rich, beautiful and willing to marry him. But, since he comes from a family of gamblers, he goes to Lloyds of London and takes an insurance policy to ensure his bride makes to the alter...

Biggers’ third book in the Charlie Chan series involves the detective in a case that spans decades and continents, culminating in the city of San Francisco. This time Charlie pulls aside the curtain that conceals a mystery far in the past. The plot links a present day murder with another murder some year previously, combined with a series of disappearances of young women. Charlie Chan is still trying to leave San Francisco after a vacation that...

Originally written in 1907, „The Red Thumb Mark” opens the series by R. Austin Freeman featuring Dr. Thorndyke, who is a sort of Sherlock-Holmes type character. A single fingerprint is found at the scene of a crime. When the police are able to identify that fingerprint, the case seems closed. But Dr. Thorndyke, the detective/barrister/medical doctor who takes on defense of this suspect, thinks he can disprove the prosecution’s case...

Earl Derr Biggers’ second Charlie Chan novel took the detective to the California desert where he uncovers the reason for the mysterious disappearance of a millionaire. Biggers was always a great romance writer who simply incorporated mystery into his books to propel the story forward. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. Charlie Chan embarks on an incognito journey across the...

No sooner had Bob from the Silver Star ranch reached Italy than a telegram arrived asking for $1,000. A pretty woman was behind it, but that wasn’t all. This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916. „The Ebony Stick” is one of Biggers shorter stories, published after his death. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio...

Charlie Chen the hero of the detective series, owned by the pen of the American writer Earl D. Biggers. Biggers wrote about two dozen action stories and plays, but he has been preserved in the memory of many generations of readers primarily as the creator of the image of this handsome inspector, the immense thickness of a Chinese living in Honolulu, where he now has to deal with purely Chinese dexterity...

Grace nie potrafi się pogodzić ze śmiercią swojej najbliższej przyjaciółki Charlie. Nie może spać ani skupić się w pracy, a jej związek z Danem powoli się rozpada. Dręczą ją ostatnie słowa przyjaciółki.

Szukając wskazówki, znajduje stare pudełko należące do Charlie. Gdy je otwiera, staje się jasne, jak wielu rzeczy o niej nie wiedziała…

W jej życiu pojawia się Anna, która twierdzi...

One of the earliest comedies of Shakespeare. And at the moment one of the most relevant. The plot of the play is built on dressing a woman into a man, on the love of a man for a woman, a woman for a disguised woman, and so on. The second comedy plan shows how different family relationships can be – one step from love to hate. And the fact that you are one blood does not mean anything, good relations are more important...

Charlie Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, is modeled after Chang Apana, a real-life police detective in Honolulu. A family originally from Boston, the Winterslips, has some members living in Hawaii. You can almost feel the gentle trade winds of Hawaii during the 1920s in this classic novel by Earl Derr Biggers. One of the wealthy Winterslips living in Hawaii is murdered. A younger member of the family...

The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Charlie’s old friend Chief Inspector Duff from Scotland Yard comes to his rescue in this book. Duff is investigating the murder of Hugh Morris Drake, a sweet old man strangled in London’s famous and exclusive hotel...

The death of Hollywood actress Shelah Fane in her Waikiki beach house brings Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police to seek the identity of the killer. The story behind her murder is linked with the three-year-old murder of another Hollywood actor and also connected with an enigmatic psychic named Tarneverro. Through the confusion of alibis, false clues, and bizarre characters, Chan moves with the utmost calm – until the classic „gathering of suspects”...

This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of „The Time Machine” and „The War of the Worlds” is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. It’s only when they „rescue” her that they see that she’s a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house...

In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man a younger man and good...

In the third installment of the Leatherstocking Tales, Cooper takes his main character, here called the Pathfinder (Natty Bumppo) and examines his role as an explorer for British/Colonial forces in the forests and islands around the Great Lakes. The story is a classic historical adventure/romance and Bumppo falls in love, for the first and only time in the five novels, only to see his choice fall in love with another man – a younger man and good...

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this storys spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontiers natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father...

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story’s spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier’s natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father...

Charlie McGuffin z pozoru jest zwykłym chłopcem. Wyróżnia go jednak niesamowita cecha – potrafi zmieniać się w rozmaite zwierzęta, od pchły przez pająka i węża aż do wilka. Niestety dzieje się to tylko wtedy, gdy Charlie jest zmartwiony lub zestresowany. A chwilowo powodów stresu ma co niemiara: brat w szpitalu, spanikowani rodzice czy znęcający się nad nim kolega ze szkoły. Z pomocą trójki przyjaciół Charlie musi nauczyć...

Second in the Dr. Thorndyke mystery series set in London around 1900. Thorndyke is a lawyer and medical doctor who reasons out mysteries. This involves a young doctor friend who Thorndyke hires as his assistant whose strange case involving a mysteries man and couple who are caring for him and an inheritance case brought to Thorndyke. A classic English mystery with the detective, Dr. Thorndyke, solving what appears to be two disparate mysteries...

Ayesha is an example of a strong and stately woman. It is a 2000-year-old woman who still looks amazing for her age, rules the tribes in Africa. Despite the unwelcome arrival of the British on her land. She extends a helping hand to them. Suddenly, she falls in love with one of the researchers of this group. But can such love be?

Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing is best known for his character Dr. John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. „Shuttlebury Cobb” is a completely different sort of book...

Richard Austin Freeman, the doyen of the scientific division of detective writing is best known for his character Dr. John Thorndyke. A close and careful investigator and the outstanding medical authority in the field of detective fiction, R. Austin Freeman not only tested the wits of the reader but also inspired many modern detective forensic methods. „Shuttlebury Cobb” is a completely different sort of book...

Often considered one of the first mystery novels, The Woman In White follows protagonist Walter Hartright, an art teacher, as he has a mysterious late night encounter on a London street with a lost woman, dressed all in white, who he later finds out had escaped from an asylum. The figure of this woman and the words they exchanged during their meeting come to haunt Walter, even as he accepts a job at Limmeridge House outside of London to instruct...

Charlie zostaje właścicielem fabryki czekolady i ma w niej zamieszkać z całą rodziną. Sprawdź, dokąd zabierze ich pan Wonka Wielką Szklaną Windą!

W 2016 roku Roald Dahl obchodziłby setną rocznicę urodzin. Charlie i fabryka czekolady oraz Matylda należą do kanonu ulubionych lektur szkolnych. Można je też zobaczyć w wersjach filmowych. Z okazji jubileuszu Steven Spielberg wyreżyserował inną jego książkę – BFG...

Nie masz lat, miesięcy, tygodni, aby wpłynąć na czyjeś życie.
Masz wyłącznie sekundy. Sekundy by wygrać lub by wszystko stracić.

Prowadzenie lokalu ze striptizem nie jest tak fascynujące jak uważa większość facetów. Dwudziestodziewięcioletni Cain pracuje głównie nocą, jego załoga nadaje się do psychiatryka
i regularnie odwiedza go policja. Zaczyna jednak wierzyć...

Life and adventures during the Klondike Gold Rush are breathtakingly realistic. Frona Wells, the main character of the novel, is a strong, intelligent, courageous and at the same time unusually charming character in a word, a woman who is able to think, love, fight and share trials along with the best of men. Who is worthy of the hands and hearts of a confident and independent ruler of the North...

Charlie Finn musiał szybko dorosnąć, w wieku szesnastu lat został zupełnie sam. Dzięki wyjątkowej inteligencji zdobył prestiżowe stypendium na Harvardzie, które pozwoliło mu przetrwać, a nawet doskonale funkcjonować na obrzeżach uprzywilejowanego społeczeństwa. Umiejętność ta zapewniła mu sukcesy w bezwzględnym świecie biznesu oraz w prowadzeniu bardziej intratnych, ale ryzykownych interesów na wybrzeżu Miami...

„The Mystery Road” an antique book written by E Phillips Oppenheim follows the heroine on her journey to true love and independence from family pressures. An orphan French girl, Myrtile, who is living with her stepfather horrifies at the prospect to marry to a local barkeep and runs away from the farm. Struck by Myrtile’s desperation and beauty, two Englishmen rescue her and bring her to Monaco with them...

Charlie znajduje Złoty Kupon do fabryki czekolady szalonego pana Wonki, gdzie czeka go moc pysznych przygód. Łakomczuchy, przed wami idealna książka na deser!

W 2016 roku Roald Dahl obchodziłby setną rocznicę urodzin. Charlie i fabryka czekolady oraz Matylda należą do kanonu ulubionych lektur szkolnych. Można je też zobaczyć w wersjach filmowych. Z okazji jubileuszu Steven Spielberg wyreżyserował inną jego książkę – BFG...

Od śmierci mamy Charlie Reynolds przebywa głównie w męskim towarzystwie - ma trzech starszych braci i sąsiada, honorowego członka rodziny. Jest zdeklarowaną chłopczycą i woli grać z kumplami w kosza, niż bawić się w jakieś gierki i flirty. Jednak gdy musi sama zarobić na kolejny ze swoich mandatów za przekroczenie prędkości, nagle ląduje w butiku z eleganckimi ubraniami. I tam nie pozostaje jej nic innego...

Od śmierci mamy Charlie Reynolds przebywa głównie w męskim towarzystwie - ma trzech starszych braci i sąsiada, honorowego członka rodziny. Jest zdeklarowaną chłopczycą i woli grać z kumplami w kosza, niż bawić się w jakieś gierki i flirty.
Jednak gdy musi sama zarobić na kolejny ze swoich mandatów za przekroczenie prędkości, nagle ląduje w butiku z eleganckimi ubraniami. I tam nie pozostaje jej nic innego...

Just as in Biggers’ first Charlie Chan mystery, „The House Without a Key,” that romantic link between the Hawaii of a different era and the city of San Francisco is explored and holds the key to the mystery. Henry Drew has cheated young Winthrop out of a partnership in a Hunan mine. Other shady deeds abound in the past of this rich and outwardly respectable old man. Despite his antagonism to Drew...