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Inspired by accusations of venality leveled at the men who captured Major Andre (Benedict Arnold’s co-conspirator, executed for espionage in 1780), Cooper’s novel centers on Harry Birch, a common man wrongly suspected by well-born Patriots of being a spy for the British. Even George Washington, who supports Birch, misreads the man, and when Washington offers him payment for information vital to the...

Tomasz Zackiewicz - autor niezwykle poczytnych za granicą powieści i książek o tematyce archeologiczno-historycznej oraz artykułów naukowych, szczególnie popularnych w Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii i Stanach Zjednoczonych. Jego anglojęzyczne publikacje stanowią cenny materiał edukacyjny zarówno dla naukowców jak i pasjonatów i cieszą się niesłabnącą popularnością. Przykładowe tytuły to: My Tips...

"When Rogues Fall Out” incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting „essay” on the early use...

The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the genre, selling thousands of copies on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert Hawke is a man on the run. After returning from business in London, he...