Miłość w czasach terroryzmu i paranoiJohn De Vuyst jest redaktorem w wydawnictwie. Szczęśliwie się ożenił z piękną i inteligentną Margą. Pewnego dnia jego spokojne życie gwałtownie się kończy...więcej »
Helen Vardon narrates her own story and one in which Dr. Thorndyke barely features until the final chapters. Helen Vardon contracts to a marriage without full knowledge of the circumstances regardi...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
Po szalonym pościgu dwóch samochodów przez centrum Helsingborga jedno z aut wpada do basenu portowego. Wszystko wskazuje na wypadek, ale wkrótce się okazuje, że kierowca samoch...więcej »
To już trzecia antologia współczesnych polskich opowiadań, które proponuje Państwu do lektury Wydawnictwo FORMA. Poprzednie – "2008" i "2011" – przekon...więcej »
R. Austin Freeman was one of the best mystery writers ever and this book is one to prove it. Harold Monkhouse is a very sick man but no one including his doctor seems to know what is wrong with him...więcej »
R. Austin Freeman’s mysteries are often divided into two parts, the first dealing with events leading up to a murder, followed by Dr. Thorndyke’s investigation. In this case, the first ...więcej »
R. Austin Freeman’s character Dr. Thorndyke is considered the first modern forensic scientist in literature. This is one of the oddities of detective fiction. The first part of this story is ...więcej »
A daring daylight art theft from a crowded museum, a secret document centuries old, and a hidden treasure, these are the elements of the title story in this collection of tales by R. Austin Freeman...więcej »
„The Eye of Osiris”, published in 1911, was the second of R. Austin Freeman’s many Dr. Thorndyke mystery novels. Here the great expert in medical jurisprudence will encounter the ...więcej »
First, there are two seemingly unrelated events: the murder of a constable in pursuit of a diamond thief and the attempt to poison a potter by using arsenic. The connection lies in the presence of ...więcej »
This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich Ame...więcej »
All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the ...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
Valerie urodziła się i wychowała w Australii, ale kiedy na studiach w Londynie poznała Antonia, przeniosła się do Włoch i urodziła dwoje dzieci. Małżeństwo okazało się jednak porażką, więc w trzeci...więcej »
"U kresu sił" to nowela Josepha Conrada będąca częścią jego cyklu morskich opowieści.Przedstawia losy kapitana Henryka Whalleya, dowodzącego parowcem „Sofala”, i j...więcej »
Dr.Thornedyke’s methods of detection are characterised by investigations of apparently irrelevant facts and lengthy explanations of his train of hypothetical reasoning. In this novel, Dr. Tho...więcej »
Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, ...więcej »