Celestial: 22 books

The Mysterious Stranger, published posthumously in 1916 and belonging to Twain's "dark" period, belies the popular image of the affable American humorist. In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an after-life, and even reality itself. As the...

When Cartwright and Maxell visit the theater in Tangiers, Cartwright boldly liberates the Irish singer Miss O'Grady from her infamous surroundings, so angering the theater owner's son and the Spaniard Jose Ferreria. Then the news from El Mograb is good, so Cartwright leaves to arrange the necessary...

There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. Herein lies the justification for The Council of Justice - a meeting of great and passionless intellects. These men are indifferent to world opinion; they relentlessly wage their wits and cunning against...

Wallace was an immensely popular writer in his time. These stories show all the attitudes of their time - colonial and condescending. However, the stories are well constructed and the light they throw on imperialist attitudes is very interesting. Here we are shown Bones as a business man. He is prepared...

Jack O' Judgment, that light-hearted, insouciant, masked mystery man, who sets out to expose a gang of daring crooks who are amassing millions regardless of their methods, is a book to read at a sitting. We are carried, spell-bound, through every page of what can justly be described as one of the late Edgar Wallace's best and most exciting thrillers.

The entertaining World War I exploits of a cockney aviator -- supposedly Charles Lindbergh's childhood inspiration to fly.

Hidden Secrets Can Be Fatal Tiel Lambrie is seventeen and worked hard to become a well-respected telepath and high-ranking bounty huntress. Sworn to protect the innocent, Tiel accepts a mysterious bounty to save a kidnapped reporter who's on a High-Councilwomen's hit list. In doing so,...

A young man finds that his old science teacher and benefactor, Professor Colson, is in contact with another world. The information the Professor is receiving has made him rich, but has also made him a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to discover the Professor's secret and use it for his own...