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Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 16: 1. The Million Dollar Story; 2. The Northing Tramp or The Tramp; 3. Penelope of the Polyantha; 4. The Square Emerald or The Woman; 5. The Terrible People or The Gallows' Hand.
Crime novels:
1. The Million Dollar Story
Jack Reacher once again is thrown into the twisting events, investigating a mysterious homicide in a small town. If you are fond of mystery fiction – this book is quite for you!
2. The Northing Tramp or The Tramp
THE tramp looked to be less savoury than most tramps; and more dangerous. For he was playing with a serviceable automatic pistol, throwing it from one hand and catching it with the other, balancing its muzzle on his forefinger with an anxious eye as it leant first one way and then another; or letting it slip through his hands until the barrel was pointing earthwards. This pistol was rather like a precious plaything; he could neither keep his eyes nor hands from it, and when, tired of the toy, he slipped it into the pocket of his tattered pants, the disappearance was momentary.
3. Penelope of the Polyantha
'Penelope of the Polyantha' is a crime novel by this pioneer of detective fiction.
«HARRY THE LANCER came into Burton Street Station to show his “brief,” for he was out of Dartmoor only that Monday, having served twenty-one months short of seven years.
He slouched in, a scowl on his yellow, scarred face, and produced his document to the station sergeant.
“Henry Beneford, S’ar’nt—convic’ on license. Gotta report here—”
And then he saw Inspector Long (or, as they called him, “Betcher,”) and his eyes blazed..."
4. The Square Emerald or The Woman
A female sleuth takes over in the fast-moving tale by Edgar Wallace.
"Suicide on the left," says Chief Inspector Coldwell pleasantly, as he and Leslie Maughan stride along the Thames Embankment during a brutally cold night. A gaunt figure is sprawled across the parapet. But Coldwell soon discovers that Peter Dawlish, fresh out of prison for forgery, is not considering suicide but murder. Coldwell suspects Druze as the intended victim. Maughan disagrees. If Druze dies, she says, "It will be because he does not love children!"
5. The Terrible People or The Gallows' Hand
The Terrible People is a 1926 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.
An heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead.