Hume: 529 books

« N'est-ce pas une pensée consolante, pour tous ceux qui aiment la liberté, que le privilège de la presse ne saurait guère nous être enlevé, sans qu'on nous enlève en même temps notre État républicain et notre indépendance. » (D. Hume) Un texte bref et précis sur la grande liberté...

Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains...

What impact do federal courts have on the administrative agencies of the federal government? How do agencies react to the decisions of federal courts? This book answers these questions by examining the responses of federal agencies to the U.S. Courts of Appeals, revealing what happens inside agencies...

British Mystery Multipack Vol. 15 presents four brilliant mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher. In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis. The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story by Fergus Hume. The Maxwell Mystery by Carolyn Wells.

DEATH OF AN EMPIRE— THE LEGEND OF MERLIN CONTINUES Merlin is the product of a brutal rape. Determined to uncover his father’s identity, he sets sail from Celtic Britain with his band of loyal companions. Their journey through war-ravaged France, Rome, and Ravenna to Constantinople will...

HUNTING WITH GODS — MERLIN’S DESTINY IS FULFILLED Disappointed after meeting his father in Constantinople, Merlin returns home to find Britain is engaged in a bloodthirsty war against the Saxons. Spared by the king of the Britons, he begins to train other healers across the land. But the...

The Dark Ages is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. The term employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery...

These two short crime novels from the Victorian period depict a threatening night-time London, where murder lurks in the fog...  In Fergus Hume's The Piccadilly Puzzle (1889), the private detective Dowker is called upon to investigate the death of a beautiful woman, whose body is found...

Fergus Hume was a 20th century American author who had many works adapted into screenplays and movies, such as The Top Dog. Popular titles like The Silent House are still widely read today.

A man is found poisoned at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle on London's Embankment, apparently having taken his own life. His identity is a mystery that Octavius Rixton (alias Octavius Fanks, detective) is determined to solve. A mysterious cryptogram leads Fanks to believe that oriental antiquities...

The Millionaire Mystery is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Shortly after the death of millionaire Richard Marlow, the village of Heathton is rocked by the discover that the body has been stolen. Further proof that something very nasty is afoot comes when Marlow's friend Dr. Warrander is discovered...

The Clock Struck One written by a prolific English novelist Fergus Hume. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1898. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally...

In the sleepy village of Hepworth, everyone knows the story of the Bally family curse. In each generation, the male heir is doomed to be born a deformed monster. Mark Bally, the current owner of the Bally's ancestral home is keen to dismiss the story, particularly the rumour that his younger brother...

Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard. Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of...