Longarm tracks a killer arsonist responsible for the destruction of a Denver rooming house, the murder of its inhabitants, and the theft of a fortune in treasury notes into Santee country, where hostile Indians are primed to protect their...
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in...
An ancient shipwreck.
A two hundred year old mystery.
A plague that’s destroying all marine life.
A pyramid half a mile below the sea.
And a puzzle that must be solved before it destroys the human race.
On the 18th of February,...
This is the first of Dennis Wheatley's famous historical series in which appears the young man who was afterwards to become Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent: Roger Brook.
The scene is the England of George III and the France...
"The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story,...
Neil Fraser, former WW II hero, is a top notch mercenary pilot. But now he is on the run, and in need of a plane. Bill Saeton has risen from the flames of war with the dream of an air freight fleet.
Fraser needs a plane. Saeton needs...
Adventure fiction. June, 1808 – and off the Coast of Nicaragua Captain Horatio Hornblower has his hands full… Now in command of HMS Lydia, a thirty-six-gun frigate, Hornblower has instructions to form an alliance against the Spanish colonies...
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories...
1565, Malta. A vital outpost between the divided nations of Europe and the relentless expansion of the Ottoman Empire. As a decisive battle rages. a veteran soldier fights for the existence of the Knights of the Order of St John and the Christian...
In the dead of night, a decrepit, unmarked motor yacht drifts into the medieval port of Vernazza, Italy.
The run-down vessel forms a jarring contrast to the pastel colored tower homes and terraced vineyards surrounding the natural harbor along...