Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of high society, and a princess, after the violent death of a butler who has his employer’s valuable emerald in his possession. The trail takes a twist when it’s discovered that Peter may have a child he knew nothing about, and that his landlady has been been using her home for more than room and board. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Square Emerald
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of high society, and a princess, after the violent death of a butler who has his employer’s valuable emerald in his possession. The trail takes a twist when it’s discovered that Peter may have a child he knew nothing about, and that his landlady has been been using her home for more than room and board. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of high society, and a princess, after the violent death of a butler who has his employer’s valuable emerald in his possession. The trail takes a twist when it’s discovered that Peter may have a child he knew nothing about, and that his landlady has been been using her home for more than room and board. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Square Emerald
Author: Gilbert Seldes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Square Emerald
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
'Suicide on the left,' says Chief Inspector Coldwell, as he and Maughan stride along. But Coldwell discovers that Dawlish, fresh out of prison for forgery, is not considering suicide but murder. Coldwell suspects Druze as the intended victim. Maughan disagrees. 'It will be because he does not love children!'
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
'Suicide on the left,' says Chief Inspector Coldwell, as he and Maughan stride along. But Coldwell discovers that Dawlish, fresh out of prison for forgery, is not considering suicide but murder. Coldwell suspects Druze as the intended victim. Maughan disagrees. 'It will be because he does not love children!'
Emerald Square
Author: Lar Redmond
Publisher: Irish Books & Media
ISBN: 9780907606796
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: Irish Books & Media
ISBN: 9780907606796
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Square Emerald
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Lady Raytham drew aside the long velvet curtains and looked down into Berkeley Square. It was half-past four o'clock on a cheerless February evening. Rain and sleet were falling, and a thin yellow mist added to the gloom of the dying day. An interminable string of cars and taxi-cabs was turning towards Berkeley Street, their shining black roofs reflecting the glare of the overhead lights that had just then hissed and spluttered to life. She looked blankly towards the desolation of the gardens, a place of bare-limbed trees and shivering shrubs - stared, as though she expected to see some fog wraith take a definite and menacing shape, and give tangible form to the shadows that menaced reason and life.
Publisher: Echo Library
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Lady Raytham drew aside the long velvet curtains and looked down into Berkeley Square. It was half-past four o'clock on a cheerless February evening. Rain and sleet were falling, and a thin yellow mist added to the gloom of the dying day. An interminable string of cars and taxi-cabs was turning towards Berkeley Street, their shining black roofs reflecting the glare of the overhead lights that had just then hissed and spluttered to life. She looked blankly towards the desolation of the gardens, a place of bare-limbed trees and shivering shrubs - stared, as though she expected to see some fog wraith take a definite and menacing shape, and give tangible form to the shadows that menaced reason and life.
The Orchid and the Emerald
Author: Timothy David Mack
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1665046813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
William Gunn wants nothing more than a quiet life. After returning home from the Napoleonic wars, he accepts a position on the Duke of Devonshire’s idyllic estate. Destiny, however, intervenes when his young daughter Sarah falls prey to a mysterious sickness, and Gunn must strike out once more into the unknown and search for an unusual cure—the black orchid, a plant found only in the forbidding Amazon rainforest, where the last man who saw it went insane. Across the Atlantic, American frontiersman Nathanial Yankee has left his country and his past behind to join a new revolution, fought by General Simón Bolívar to free South America from the Spanish. Nate, however, is no hero—he fights for land, and a chance at a fresh start. Pursued by a cruel enemy in a race against time, William and Nate must survive the battlefields of the Spanish Main, cross the snow-covered peaks of the Andes, and finally reckon with the rulers of a dying Amazonian empire. For one man, the goal is a chance to save his daughter’s life; for the other, a priceless treasure beckons. If they cannot learn to work together, one of a thousand enemies will kill them (that is, if they don’t kill each other first). Unbeknownst to them, both men are pawns in a far larger game, and some secrets cannot be hidden forever ...
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1665046813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
William Gunn wants nothing more than a quiet life. After returning home from the Napoleonic wars, he accepts a position on the Duke of Devonshire’s idyllic estate. Destiny, however, intervenes when his young daughter Sarah falls prey to a mysterious sickness, and Gunn must strike out once more into the unknown and search for an unusual cure—the black orchid, a plant found only in the forbidding Amazon rainforest, where the last man who saw it went insane. Across the Atlantic, American frontiersman Nathanial Yankee has left his country and his past behind to join a new revolution, fought by General Simón Bolívar to free South America from the Spanish. Nate, however, is no hero—he fights for land, and a chance at a fresh start. Pursued by a cruel enemy in a race against time, William and Nate must survive the battlefields of the Spanish Main, cross the snow-covered peaks of the Andes, and finally reckon with the rulers of a dying Amazonian empire. For one man, the goal is a chance to save his daughter’s life; for the other, a priceless treasure beckons. If they cannot learn to work together, one of a thousand enemies will kill them (that is, if they don’t kill each other first). Unbeknownst to them, both men are pawns in a far larger game, and some secrets cannot be hidden forever ...
Emerald City and Other Stories
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780334648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780334648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
These eleven masterful stories - the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan - deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters, models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls, are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora, as cosmopolitan as downtown Manhattan, or as familiar as suburban Illinois to seek their own transformations. Elegant and poignant, the stories in Emerald City are seamless evocations of self-discovery.
The Square Emerald
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Everybody's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
The Avenger
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755122232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Francis Elmer has vanished. A note is found signed 'The Head Hunter'. Elmer's niece Adele is a film extra, whi is given a starring role. Surprised by Mike Brixan she drops the typed script. The 'v' letters are blurred and the 'g' is indistinct. Mike turns white...
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755122232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Francis Elmer has vanished. A note is found signed 'The Head Hunter'. Elmer's niece Adele is a film extra, whi is given a starring role. Surprised by Mike Brixan she drops the typed script. The 'v' letters are blurred and the 'g' is indistinct. Mike turns white...