Halcyon Press Ltd: 195 books

THE CLUE AND OTHER MYSTERIES features fourteen novels and short mysteries from the 'Fleming Stone' and 'Pennington Wise' mystery series.  Young sleuth Fleming Stone and his associate, Fibsy, are noted for their ability to solve the most baffling, convoluted locked-room mysteries.   Fleming...

THE BEGUM'S MILLIONS is a little-known work by Jules Verne which follows the contest between two men, the inheritors of a vast fortune.  The men, one French and the other German, believe in their innate superiority of their respective nations--and each man sets out to prove it.  The Frenchman,...

Set in unexplored Africa during 1858, MERIDIANA follows the adventures of three Russian and three English scientists as they journey north from South Africa to measure the meridian. As their mission is proceeding, the Crimean war breaks out, and the members of the expedition find themselves citizens...

THE ADVENTURES OF A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (originally titled CLAUDIUS BOMBARNAC) is a fascinating late 19th century adventure set on the newly-built Grand Transasiatic Railway between Turkestan and Peking, China.  Along the way, special correspondent Claudius Bombarnac encounters sundry rogues,...

Jules Verne's CAESAR CASCABEL follows the adventures of a family of French circus perfomers who have spent several years touring North America in the 1860s.  As they prepare to return home, their savings are stolen, leaving them with few options for returning to France.  Instead of working...

SEVEN OUT OF TIME AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES contains seven works by Golden Age scifi writer Arthur Leo Zagat, including his sci-fi/time travel adventure novel SEVEN OUT OF TIME.  In SEVEN OUT OF TIME, a young man is kidnapped and transported to a distant alien world where he encounters many...

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS recounts the further adventures of the boy who wouldn't grow up - PETER PAN. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish playwright and author, best remembered today as the creator of PETER PAN.

PETER PAN is a timeless classic children's story of a boy who never grows up.  Living in a mythical land, young Peter Pan and his friends battle pirates, monsters, and the dreaded Captain Hook. Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish playwright and author, best remembered today as the creator of PETER PAN.

A PAIL OF AIR AND OTHER GOLDEN AGE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES includes twenty-two novellas and short stories by award-winning writer Fritz Leiber. In A PAIL OF AIR, a few survivors must adapt and try to survive on an Earth which has been cast into the depths of space, far from the sun's warmth. This...

Zuleika Dobson is an incredibly beautiful young woman, famous as a conjuror, who visits Oxford as the guest of her grandfather, Warden of Judas College. There she meets the extremely eligible Duke of Dorset, an undergraduate, who leads the other students first into falling in love with her and then...

Biff Brewster, sixteen, is a tall, strongly built blond youth who lives In Indianapolis, Indiana, with his parents and the eleven-year-old twins, Ted and Monica. Because his mother and father believe that travel is as important to education as formal schooling, Biff is encouraged to travel to various...

THE GREAT MARVEL ADVENTURES SERIES follows young Jack and Sam, two inventive boys whose curiosity and pluck lead them on adventures to the North and South poles, to the center of the Earth, to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. • Through the Air to the North Pole • Under the Ocean to the South...

THE JACK HILDRETH ADVENTURES include three of noted German writer Karl May's 'Jack Hildreth' adventures, WINNETOU, THE TREASURE OF NUGGET MOUNTAIN, and JACK HILDRETH ON THE NILE. • Winnetou, the Apache Knight • The Treasure of Nugget Mountain • Jack Hildreth on the Nile Karl...

In CLAIM NUMBER ONE, rich men, poor men, beggarmen, thieves impelled by the lure of chance had gathered at the mushroom city of Comanche. The drawing was to be by lot and the lucky holder of number one was entitled to first choice of the rich lands. It meant a fortune. Dr. Warren Slavens drew claim...