Around 1900 Bower started to write about the wild west – and she was one of a few women writers that ’wrote like a man’ and fooled most of her readers at the time. Not afraid to w...
New Zealand is one of the „hottest” industrial sites in the world. Known for the brilliant, crystal clear rivers, New Zealand, Zain Gray has the image of a great and mythical trout. In ...
The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Freeman’...
Hulbert Footner (1879–1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. About 1920, Footner began to write detective fiction, his first series detective character being Madame...
Geoffrey West falls in love at first sight with a girl in a hotel breakfasting with her father. They’re all Americans, but the scene is London on the eve of the Great War. Both Geoffrey and h...
Powell’s Plateau was the most distant, inaccessible corner of the Grand Canyon, when Zane Gray went there with a hunter to the buffalo, camp, a cowboy from Utah and a scout from Navajo State....
Rowdy Vaughn is a goodhearted but somewhat uncouth range rider whose attempts at wooing the local schoolteacher are hampered by a longstanding blood feud. The problems start when Jessie’s bro...
William Hulbert Footner was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He was once described as ‘one of the most charming men who was ever on earth.’ His love for his famil...
B.M Bower had a gift for writing Westerns, weaving tales of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and romance – often with surprise endings. They are historical reminiscences of pioneers among the sa...
In this last written adventure, the plot unfolds with an intriguing scenario. Wealthy and hospitible Dudley Ward gathers together Charlie Chan along with Ellen’s three later husbands to his l...
Beloved Western author B. M. Bower is back with another classic yarn of the Old West. Much like her best-known works, „The Uphill Climb” showcases the inner lives of the cowhands and ra...
B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This is one of her stories. In her prolific career as a writer of many cl...
An interesting read. Ken and Hal go canoeing in Mexico. The writing has a very early 20th century feel to it, it almost feels as though I’m watching an old classic movie on Saturday afternoon...
„The Under Dogs", published in 1925, is the first novel about Rosika Storey, told by her trusty secretary, Bella Brickley. Beautiful, intelligent Madame Rosika Storey, a respected invest...
Putting Crime Over by Hulbert Footner. When Madame Roska Storey and her secretary are robbed, a plan is put in place to catch the robbers as well as their leader. She is the best private detective ...
B. M. Bower (a woman who actually lived in early 20th century Montana when this story was written) has a good sense of humor and touches on some of the big issues of the West such as water rights a...
One of the most thrilling novel ever, this is a medley of mystery, farce and intrigue an especially fine example of the American mystery play and one of the outstanding dramatic successes of modern...
Contents of the collection: Moonlight at the crossroads Selling Miss Minerva The heart of the loaf Possessions The dollar chasers Idle hands The girl who paid dividends A letter to Australia Nina a...
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 t...
Hulbert Footner (1879 – 1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Te...