"There was a mysterious affair last night, signore. An English steam yacht ran aground on the Meloria about ten miles out, and was discovered by a fishing-boat who brought the news to harbor. The Admiral sent out two torpedo-boats, which managed...
The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech...
Why do Czech men love sandals and white socks, and why do Czech women practice extramarital sex with greater gusto than women in most other European countries? Did you know that Czech Euroscepticism has its roots in 1620? That Czech society is in...
Where there’s a will there’s a way — at least that was old A. B. Carr’s reasoning until Doug Selby appeared and mapped out another course...
Obviously the young lawyer, Inez Stapleton, had bitten off more than she could chew. It isn’t...
Take two luscious redheads... add green-eyed blonde, mysterious burglary, and a bewildered fiancée... stir in a good measure of that unscrupulous attorney Alphonse Baker Carr... season with murder, and no wonder...
“You’ve got to break an...
When we found Perry Mason, we called SEVEN! When we met the “D.A.” — Douglas Selby — we shouted ELEVEN! They’re both naturals — and though Perry Mason does not take part in this novel, it marks the appearance of Erle Stanley Gardner’s...
"Tell us all about Dagger!"
That was the command thrown at Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin by the unseen THRUSH agents who kidnapped and interrogated them with lie detectors. And from each U.N.C.L.E. agent came the same answer: "We know...
A thrilling new case for London’s most talented psychic detection
agency – from the global bestselling author of the Bartimaeus Sequence.
In London, a mysterious and potentially deadly ghost is stalking the
halls of St Simeon’s Academy...