Angelina Frood, a striking young ex-actress, has gone missing and her new friend Dr. Strangeways, a good-hearted young doctor and the narrator of the story, is determined to find out what has happe...więcej »
As in many of Dickens’s greatest novels, the gulf between appearance and reality drives the action. Set in the seemingly innocuous cathedral town of Cloisterham, the story rapidly darkens wit...więcej »
Sylwester 1999 roku. Ludzie spodziewają się, że tej nocy nastąpi koniec świata: z nieba zaczną spadać samoloty, na giełdach wybuchnie panika, dojdzie do masowej awarii komputerów. Nic takieg...więcej »
„The Penrose Mystery”, fist published in 1936, is definitely up to the high standard of the wonderful Dr. Thorndyke series. Penrose is an eccentric old man in possession of some dazzlin...więcej »
In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the ...więcej »
Edward Leithen is a young British lawyer who learns that one of his Oxford contemporaries, Charles Pitt-Heron, has just disappeared. Leithen learns from Pitt-Heron’s wife that he has been for...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 »
Kit Frick to uznana autorka thrillerów dla młodzieży I dorosłych. Tym razem proponuje nam thriller YA na miarę znanych seriali „The White Lotus” oraz “Glass Onion”więcej »
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London’s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. Verloc is part of a group of anarchists who b...więcej »
This novel is an excellent example of the inverted detective story, a modern form that R. Austin Freeman is credited with inventing. You know from the beginning who the guilty party is, but watchin...więcej »
Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Cooper’s novel centers on Harry Birch...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 »
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 au...więcej »
London, May 1914. Europe is close to the First World War. Richard Hannay, a Scotsman raised in Rhodesia is living in London, and finds American Franklin Scudder at his door. Scudder is a photograph...więcej »
The story re-introduces the reader to an older Richard Hannay, married and the father of a young son, living on a country estate. Our hero is pulled out of retirement by his old comrade, Bullivant,...więcej »
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’...więcej »
In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch th...więcej »
OSZUSTWO EGZAMINACYJNE, PRZEZ KTÓRE MARZENIATHEO O STUDIACH PRAWNICZYCH MOGĄ SIĘ NIGDY NIE SPEŁNIĆ… Przed Theo Boone’em koszmarny tydzień. Jeśli chce zostać pr...więcej »
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition.Sherlock Holmes wybiera się z wizytą do swojego brata, Mycrofta. Towarzyszy mu...więcej »
Książka nominowana do nagrody An Post Irish Book Award za rok 2021 w kategorii Kryminał Roku Ostre, wyrafinowane i pełne napięcia. Cara Hunter, autorka Kto porwał Daisy Mason? Jeden zaginiony chł...więcej »