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CONTENTS THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN . The Blue Cross . The Secret Garden . The Queer Feet . The Flying Stars . The Invisible Man . The Honour of Israel Gow . The Wrong Shape . The Sins of Prince Saradine . The Hammer of God . The Eye of Apollo . The Sign of the Broken Sword . The Three Tools of...

Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was smiling down at her, and her pony, Dixie, was jingling his bells and pawing at the snow and ice in the driveway below. It was the first trial of the pretty new cutter, and the joyous excitement of the occasion...

Seit Jahren treibt der „Zinker“ in der Londoner Unterwelt sein Unwesen. Immer wenn dort gestohlene Ware verhehlert werden soll, meldet er sich, um diese zu Tiefstpreisen an sich zu reißen. Falls die Diebe auf sein Angebot nicht eingehen, „verzinkt“ (verrät) er diese bei Scotland Yard.

“What can I do for you, Mr. Campenhaye?” he asked, with a little tremor as of anxiety in his voice. “It’s not—not, I hope, about poor Mr. James?” “That, Mr. Armstead, is precisely what it is,” I answered. “Now, remember, we speak together in the strictest secrecy?” “Oh, yes,...

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...

‘What is it, Sevidge?’ I asked. He glanced round to make sure that we were alone. Then he came close. ‘It’s murder, Mr Henderson!’ he said in a low voice. ‘Do you know that young fellow Maidment—Roger Maidment?’ ‘The rent-collector?’ I replied. ‘Yes!’ ‘He’s lying there...

I think my first notion was that this was the cry of some animal, trapped close by, or seized by another. But on the instant it came again, and I knew it then for the cry, desperate, terrorised, of a man in deadly fear and peril. I had sprung to my elbow at the first sound: at the second I looked...

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.

All the folk who lived in No. 85 had gone to bed by that time, and the landlady, knowing that there was no late-comer to arrive, had locked and bolted her front door. It took Jennison a minute or two to turn the key and draw the two bolts, and all the time something was pulsing and throbbing in his...

Heart of Darkness is a famous novel by Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. He tells his story of the search for and the obsession with the adventurer Kurtz: Is this man a hero – or a monster? Heart of Darkness raises important questions about imperialism and racism. Moreover, it is a great symbolist story.

Once, when Jane had been sitting in the Cadillac, one dark, dingy morning in a snowy world, waiting for Frank to take her to St. Agatha’s, as he did every day, she had heard two women, who were standing on the street-corner, talking about it. “Did you ever see such a dead house?” said the younger....

Der Band beinhaltet zwei der bekanntesten Geschichten des Meisters des mysteriösen Erzählens. Die Maske des roten Todes - ein skrupelloser Prinz und das Schicksal während der Seuche Hinab in den Maelström (Mahlstrom) - wie entrinnt man dem gewaltigen Strudel?

Die große Sammlung der besten Geschichten des genialen Poe: Der Goldkäfer Eine Geschichte aus dem Felsengebirge Der schwarze Kater Das Faß Amontilladowein Die Maske des roten Todes Die Rache des Zwerges Der alte Mann mit dem Geierauge Die Mordtat in der Rue Morgue Der gestohlene Brief Bericht über...

Das Werk schildert, angelehnt an historische Begebenheiten, den Verlauf des Söldneraufstands, der nach der Niederlage Karthagos im Ersten Punischen Krieg 241 bis etwa 238 v. Chr. in Nordafrika ausbrach. Die Titelfigur Salammbô, im Roman die Tochter des karthagischen Feldherrn Hamilkar Barkas, ist...