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This 1929 novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim neatly describes some of the frothy financial dealings of the late stage of the roaring 20’s in England and centered around a commercial chemical formula. The formula for the process is carefully guarded from it’s own employees, but is stolen one night by a band of five adventurers who plan to ransom it for 1 million pounds. Two men are killed during the robbery....

A young adventurer steals two complimentary idols of Buddha from a Chinese temple, one of which is supposed to have a debasing and malevolent effect upon its owners. One of the idols represents the Body, and all of the corruption and evil of Mankind, the other represents the Soul, and all that is good. The Ballastons are a spendthrift aristocratic family threatened with the loss of their ancestral...

In this tightly plotted novel, we follow the bizarre career of a man who loathes criminals. After Humphrey Challoner finds his wife killed by the bullet of a robber in his home, he vows to catch the man. Mr. Challoner is a wealthy savant, and he saved the fingerprints of the robber as well as some of the robber’s strange hair which Challoner’s wife had in her hand. For twenty years Humphrey hunts for...

Honoré de Balzac: Blanka Bruyn - Sukkub. Blanche Bruyn - Le succube. Blanche Bruyn - The Succubus. Edycja w trzech językach polskim, francuskim i angielskim. Tekst - Texte - Text: Polski / Français / Englisch. Z francuskiego na język polski przełożyła Celina Hańska. From French into English translated by George Robert Sims. Fragmenty opowiadania: Niektórzy, co z zacnego kraju Turenii...