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Delightful collection of mysteries of the first blind detective. In 1914, Ernest Bramah published his first collection of Carrados stories, „Max Carrados”. Max Carrados is a detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. He is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes...

„Max Carrados Mysteries” is a collection of Bramah’s classic detective tales containing „The Secret of Headlam Height”, „The Mystery of The Vanished Petition Crown” and many other stories. Carrados is a cerebral detective, solving the crimes with facts, information and his advanced senses, which over-compensate for his blindness. In „The Coin of Dionysius” we first meet the suave sleuth Max Carrados...

Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge. As the story progresses, the full extent of Charles Dexter Ward’s madness is slowly revealed until the evil of the past seems ready to burst into the present with horrific consequences. Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established...

Honoré de Balzac: Blanka Bruyn - Sukkub. Blanche Bruyn - Le succube. Blanche Bruyn - The Succubus. Edycja w trzech językach polskim, francuskim i angielskim. Tekst - Texte - Text: Polski / Français / Englisch. Z francuskiego na język polski przełożyła Celina Hańska. From French into English translated by George Robert Sims. Fragmenty opowiadania: Niektórzy, co z zacnego kraju Turenii...