Wallace Edgar: 852 books

Fing-Su is a graduate of Oxford and head of the dread Society of the Joyful Hands, which he leads in his quest to dominate the world. The name "Yellow Snake" was bestowed on him by his opponent, Clifford Lynne. A bit more practical than Fu Manchu, Fing-Su employs terrestrial strategies...

There was a lawless group of villages set upon a wooded ridge at the confluence of B'suri and the Great River, and these villages were called by the name of the largest, M'fumbini–falapa. It had another name which I will not give, lest this story falls into the hands of innocent people who speak...

'Taking the little paper from the pigeon's leg, Hamilton saw it was from Sanders and marked URGENT. Send Bones instantly to Lujamalababa... Arrest and bring to head-quarters the witch doctor.' It is a time when the world's most powerful nations are vying for colonial honour, a time of trading...

Lieutenant Bridgeman went out over the German line and strafed a depot. He stayed a while to locate a new gun position and was caught between three strong batteries of Archies. Reports? said the wing commander. Well, Bridgeman isn't back and Tam said he saw him nose-dive behind the German trenches.

As a prophecy of modern warfare,this book written before the Great War, is distinctly remarkable

They say the ghost of the Black Abbot has been seen near the old abbey, and Cartwright the grocer claims to have seen it too. Meanwhile Harry Alford, eighteenth Earl of Chelford is engaged to Leslie Gine, sister of Arthur, solicitor and gambler with the family fortune. The Earl had originally asked...

Four men sat about a table on the sidewalk in front of the Café of the Nations in the High Street of Cadiz and talked business. Leon Gonsalez was one, Poiccart was another, George Manfred was a notable third, and one, Thery, or Saimont, was the fourth. Of this quartet, only Thery requires...

There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot redress. The three friends, Pioccart, Manfred and Gonsalez, may be enjoying the exotic, Spanish city of Cordova with its heat and Moorish influences, but they are still committed to employing their intellect...

Willie, who read:   "THE Due DE MONTVILLIER," and in a corner. "San Pio Ranch, Tex."   "I'm not," continued the young man modestly. "I'm not an English duke: if anything I'm rather superior to the average English duke: I've got royal blood in my veins, and I shall be very pleased to see you at No. 64."  ...

Many years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the matter, was given an axe and a saw in the penal settlement—which was a patch of wild forest in the...

Ungekürzte Übersetzung von 1935 Der Gauner O'Shea erbeutet bei seinem letzten Überfall unfassbare 3 Tonnen Gold. Doch er liefert seine Komplizen ans Messer, und die schwören nun Rache. Wer ist der unheimliche Mönch, der nachts im Herrenhaus umherschweift und seine Opfer sucht? Wird Inspektor...

Manche Bücher sind so furchtbar, dass man sie nicht alleine lesen sollte.   Die Autoren von Die schlechtesten Bücher aller Zeiten begleiten Sie deshalb mit beißenden Kommentaren auf Ihrem schweren Weg durch die schlimmsten Klassiker der Schund- und Weltliteratur – was verblüffend...

Er sprach und scherzte mit ihnen und rieb sich lachend die Hände über ihre erstaunlichen Antworten. Schon den ganzen Tag hatten sie ihm Dinge zugeraunt, die einen gewöhnlichen Menschen vor Furcht hätten erstarren lassen, aber Li schenkte ihren Zuflüsterungen diesmal keinen Glauben. Der schrille...

Vielleicht würde er sie tatsächlich treffen? Es war allerdings eine phantastische Idee, aber in seinen Träumen ereigneten sich manchmal die unglaublichsten Dinge. Und hatte er nicht, nur um der Frau zu begegnen, diesen kurzen, aber äußerst gefährlichen Weg gewählt? Vielleicht würde sich seine...