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A very precious collection of short stories by W. W. Jacobs, author of several humorous and ghost stories. This ebook contains a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a smart biography. This interactive digital edition includes: Interactive Notes and Chapters,...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Master of Craft. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by W.W. Jacobs, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill...

Flight of the Curlew is a fast moving story about a ruthless executive who has scrambled his way to the top using anyone or anything in his way.Things fall apart rapidly as he is knifed in the back and summarily discarded without warning. His home life is already on the skids, and now his destruction...

Many readers have enjoyed Harvey Jacobs' stories in Playboy, F&SF, New Worlds, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and other magazines and Year's Best SF anthologies. This collection, representative of his remarkable originality and range, includes eleven stories of broad humor, irony, fantasy, and poignancy....

"The old man of the sea" is a very precious short story by W. W. Jacobs, author of several humorous and ghost stories, contained in "Ship's Company". This ebook contains a detailed biography including all the publications of the Author and a smart biography. This interactive...

Michael did not go to North Carolina looking for romance, he was all business, but he found it anyway among the campers and beaches of the Outer Banks. He soon learns however, that Lori comes as a complete package including her faith that he hasn’t had any use for since childhood. Lori is prepared...

This charming and thoroughly entertaining collection of interwoven short tales from W. W. Jacobs all spring from the same fictional source: a nightwatchman on the docks who has lots of time on his hands to opine, philosophize and reminisce, often about his run-ins with unruly sailors.

Claire Lane’s students are always close to her heart. When one disappears into fells and becks of the Lake District in Northwest England, she is not convinced the woman has gone to meditate on Scafell Pike. A talented and gifted writer, Bo Huan, a Chinese National follows her dream.  Claire in...

Vera Lawson is embroiled once again in the Polt family saga. The two paintings discovered in the crypt in the garden of the Saint-Pois house, have come under scrutiny from The Louvre Museum's top investigator, Dr. Lucille Thompson-McLeay. Are they real or forgeries? Dr Thompson-McLeay's unusual...

British Scientist. Robert Jameson is wanted by NATO. His crime, trading illegal weapons and toxic serums to Chinese insurgents. An Archaeological team have unearthed the remains of a Viennese silversmith near Lake IssyKul. An ancient Cossack tribesman knows too much, but will he assist Jacques Barbosa...

Jacques Barbosa, now retired from the French Military, takes on more than he bargained for, returning to Ethiopia in search for two rogue militia who have shot his ex-wife, concert pianist Elizabeth Mallory.  Recruited by British MI6 boss Sir Braxton Jerret, Barbosa and his partner Hendrik’ Dutch’...

Recently dead, Paul Ourisman is grappling with his new home in the underworld. He and the people who have become the closest thing Paul has to friends are returning their kidnapping victim to her camp when they come upon a stone-age civilization that promises the best Hell has to offer, only to discover its soul-crushing cost. Litost - Hell 2.0

Vera Lawson accepts an offer of employment with the aristocratic Wellmont family in London as a tutor. But she has an ulterior motive. Could her mother the scatterbrained Caroline Montieff have fled to Paris in search of her lost freedom? Gunther Polt, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, aristocratic,...

A collection of intriguing stories reflecting the author's view that life is a wonderful, exciting, sometimes dangerous and often totally boring trip. Rex Jacobs strives to write as honestly and openly as possible, but he will never get drawn into discussing the source of inspiration for any particular tale. They are all true in some way, he says.