Tritonia

A short story from prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim, ‘The Governors’ tells the story of Phineas Duge. The leader of a group of American millionaires, Duge becomes suspicious o ...

In Paris, gambling house the Palace Noire is raided by police. Disguised as a workman, one man escapes, alongside a young girl and a monkey. Wounded on the night of the raid, Gilbe ...

Arthur, Arnold, and Allan are three great friends who live together. Whilst at a train station observing daily life as inspiration for his next novel, Arnold witnesses a shocking s ...

First published in 1922, E. Phillips Oppenheim set ‘The Great Prince Shan’ in an imagined future of 1934. Though WWI has ended, national security is still under threat. Great Brita ...

Perhaps the most famous of all E. Phillips Oppenheim novels, ‘The Great Impersonation’ is a daring tale of daring, disguise, and espionage set just prior to the outbreak of WWI. Tw ...

Poverty-stricken Arnold Chetwode heads to London to make his fortune. Whilst in the capital he is witness to a murder, drawing him unwillingly into a world of international intrigu ...

Middle-aged politician Andrew Tallente has found his career cut short due to jealousy within his own party and a strong opposition. Having lost his seat, he retires to Devon, only ...

A pre-WWI thriller, ‘The Great Secret’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the adventures of young Hardcross Courage. One night while staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel he witnesses an ...

Also published under the title ‘The Distributors’, ‘The Ghost Society’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the story of secret society ‘The Ghosts’. Bored with London society, Lord Ev ...

Written and published during the early years of WWI ‘The Kingdom of the Blind’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim is set against the backdrop of this international conflict. Hugh Thomson is ...

When beautiful actress Louise Maurel’s car breaks down in the middle of the countryside she is fortunate to find herself in the vicinity of the home of the Strangeways brothers. Th ...

‘The Zeppelin’s Passenger’ by popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim was first published in 1918 and is set during WWI. When a Zeppelin crashes in a small English town the passenger ...

Professori Kalitin on häikäilemätön, narsistinen kemisti, joka on kehittänyt äärimmäisen tappavan myrkyn työskennellessään salaisessa kaupungissa Venäjän Kaukoidässä. Myrkyn nimi o ...

Syksyllä 1944 Suomessa elettiin hirmuista aikaa. Sota Neuvostoliittoa vastaan oli hävitty ja pelättiin puna-armeijan valtaavan Suomen lopullisesti. Maassa määräsivät NL:n valvontak ...

19-åriga svenskamerikanskan Jenny, bosatt i Mora, Minnesota, förlorar en varm sommardag 1973 sin familj i en kuslig smitningsolycka. För att komma över sin sorg bestämmer hon sig f ...

Älgjägarna Simpson och Cathcart ger sig tillsammans med det övriga jaktlaget ut i den vidsträckta ödemarken i kanadensiska Ontario. Simpson lämnar baslägret vid Fifty Island Water ...

En kamp för överlevnad Med hjälp av kanoten tar sig vännerna genom Europa längs floden Donau och vad som var tänkt att bli ett äventyr förbyts snart till en kamp för överlevnad. De ...

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När en fjortonårig flicka försvinner och sedan hittas död vid en badplats, tyder det mesta på att hon utsatts för ett brott. Katarina Solberg, kriminalkommissarie hos regionalpolis ...

‘Tales and Fantasies’ is a short story collection by much-loved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Published posthumously in 1905, the collection included the farcical ‘The Mi ...

A 1915 short story by Edgar Wallace, ‘The Melody of Death’ is a thrilling crime story. A mysterious melody causes a young man to descend into mania whenever he hears the tune. Newl ...

Judge Derwent dotes on his daughter, Nancy. So when he receives a letter in the mail threatening Nancy's life, he immediately springs into an investigation. Attorney Littlefield as ...

Johnny Bellchambers is one of the wealthiest men in New York. His outlandish style is famous across all of America. But one day he disappears without a trace. A kidnapping? Alien a ...

A gothic short story from the hugely popular Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Poor Clare’ was first published as part of a serial in ‘Household Words’ a weekly magazine edi ...

A tragic short story from much-loved Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Half-Brothers’ is a tale of love and rejection. Unloved and spurned by his stepfather, Gregory is trea ...