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Mr. Rivington is tall, slender and willowy; Mr. Wells is stoutly built and looks as if nothing could break him. Mr. Rivington is a dreamer who loves art and can pursue his cultured interests thanks to the inheritance his uncle has left him; Mr. Wells is philosophic in a dry-humoured fashion and works...

It's old Mr. Bartle, sir, he whispered. He's in your room there -- dead! Dead? exclaimed Eldrick. Dead! Pratt shook his head again. He came up not so long after you'd gone, sir, he said. Everybody had gone but me -- I was just going. Wanted to see you about something I don't know what. He was very...

Of the many thousands of utterly ordinary-looking individuals who journeyed into the city from various suburban retreats every workday morning Limmis was, by a long way, the most ordinary and least likely to attract attention. He was the sort of young man whom no one would have ever troubled to look...

After a childhood beset by abject poverty, Jeckie Fletcher is determined to do whatever it takes to live a comfortable, stable life. That's why she rejects the love of her childhood sweetheart, Joe Bartle, and instead sets her sights on local merchant Albert Grice. When her dogged pursuit of Grice ends...

Excerpt: "At seven of the clock I turned away from the window, where, for a full hour, I had stood flattening my nose against the pane in a vain attempt to see something of interest in the dripping garden or the dank meadows outside. Sir Nicholas moved in his deep chair by the fire and then groaned,...

     Presently came along another Corporation official, whom Bunning knew as well as he knew the Mayor, an official who, indeed, was known all over the town, and familiar to everybody, from the mere fact that he was always attired in a livery the like of which he and his predecessors had been...

Who murdered the man found roped to the gibbet on Gallows Tree Point? Who stole Miss Ellingham’s famous Kang-He Vase? What was Uncle Joseph doing at Middlebourne? From the date that old scoundrel turned up, trouble began—murder, robbery, and abduction; trouble in which Ben Heckitt and Pepita played prominent and perilous parts.

(Versione senza fotografie). Questo racconto è opera di fantasia libertina, nel senso che personaggi e situazioni sono completamente inventate e che ogni riferimento a eventi reali e a persone esistenti è del tutto casuale. L’unica cosa vera di questa storia gaudente è l’ambientazione, perché...

Being a criminal kingpin is more work and less fun than everyone makes it seem. Carl Ramsey is the head of his own criminal Syndicate. With a hundred men and women and the resources of a tiny jungle moon at his disposal, life should have gotten easier, not harder. Infighting, politics, and...

There's a new crime lord in this galaxy. Time to make crime actually pay. Carl Ramsey had a derelict battleship and a hundred stranded navy veterans fall into his lap. With Earth Navy happier pretending none of them existed, it only seemed logical to turn them into a criminal empire. Of...

Can't wait! weddings and sex go hand and hand. You can't have a Wedding with out sex right? It's not just for the bride and groom. Jen had always had a crush on John when she was younger.  But, the problem was John saw Jen as a big pest. Now, Jen is older and more mature and looked like a...

Megan Collier, an M.E. with the Syracuse Medical Examiner's Office is called in to perform an autopsy on a victim whose heart has been removed in a mysterious and unusual fashion. The Chief of Police doesn't believe her explanation, and bucking heads with the bureaucracy is just another problem she...

Having lost the trust of his wife, Andrew, a sissy girl already initiated into women's clothing and taking orders, is forced to stay with Nanny Patricia. Nanny Patricia is a beautiful yet cold older woman that immediately sets Andrew straight about talking back and not obeying. Her first task is to...

**In a crime family, there's a thin line between the Christmas list and the hit list. ** When the crew of the Mobius takes on passenger Bryce Brisson to make some easy money, they find themselves caught up in his business dealings with Tanny's estranged family: the Rucker Syndicate. On top...