Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and ... more »

Cold winter lay deep in the Canadian wilderness. Over it the moon was rising, like a red pulsating ball, lighting up the vast white silence of the night in a shimmering glow. Not a sound broke the stillness of the desolation. It was too late for the life of day, too early for the nocturnal roamings and ... more »

L'auteur avait pensé jusqu'ici, que la scène où se passe l'action de cet ouvrage, et les différents détails nécessaires pour comprendre les allusions qui y ont rapport, sont suffisamment expliqués au lecteur dans le texte lui-même, ou dans les notes qui le suivent. Cependant, il existe tant d'obscurit ... more »

THE FIRST AND BEST BLIND DETECTIVE! That's how the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection hails the adventures of Max Carrados.  Ellery Queen calls this first volume of his adventures, One of the ten best volumes of detective shorts ever written! Blinded in an accident, Carrados developed remarkable ... more »

Product Info A middle-aged private detective gets a chance to fulfill his life-long dream when he is hired by the woman he secretly loves ... who suspects her husband of infidelity. more »

What was the real crime committed in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and by whom? Unsatisfied with the happy ending, Gonzalo investigates.... There's a subtle clue in the epigraph quotation, which genuinely comes from Shakespeare's play. more »

Many a hardcase had died trying to tale the bank and settle an old score at the same time. But he never counted on meeting a beautiful woman and her trail-savvy but reckless father, headed a straight for Apache country. Now Consindine and his gang can either ride like hell for the border just ahead of ... more »

Terrence McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller Blood Work , is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his ... more »

Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such ... more »

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his past.  Now he was up and running for his life--into a tangle of lies and deceit.  His memory lost, the man had only a name and a few clues.  Where did his skill with a gun come from?  What was the link between his past ... more »

The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home--a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Ashbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again ... more »

The January afternoon was passing into night, the air was cold and still, so still that not a single twig of the naked beech-trees stirred; on the grass of the meadows lay a thin white rime, half frost, half snow; the firs stood out blackly against a steel-hued sky, and over the tallest of them hung ... more »