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Orientalizm po rosyjsku. Górale Kaukazu Północnego i pogranicze gruzińskie, 1845-1917 – ebook
Austin Jersild
Książka Austina Jersilda, profesora Wydziału Historii w Old Dominion University, jest bodaj pierwszą monografią o XIX-wiecznym podboju Kaukazu Północnego przez Rosję. Stanowi przy tym skuteczną odtrutkę na kłamliwą propagandę historyczną, posługującą się twierdzeniami, że „ciągła ekspansja Rosji na południe wynikała z konieczności obrony, ale także ze zwykłego pragmatyzmu”. Dokumentując proces narodzin...Data dostępności:
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Rozmowy z psychopatami – ebook
Christopher Berry-Dee
Stale słyszałem strzały. Zmienił magazynek w pistolecie. Był bardzo dobrze przygotowany. Chodził spokojnie po korytarzach. Jukka Forsberg o masowym morderstwie w Kauhajoki w Finlandii we wtorek 23 września 2008 roku Christopher Berry-Dee, brytyjski kryminolog, autor bestsellerów o seryjnych zabójcach i psychopatach, analizuje psychikę, motywy i metody działania masowych morderców, sprawców...Data dostępności:
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The House in the Mist – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
In „The House in the Mist,” weary traveler Hugh Austin happens upon a house in a village whilst seeking shelter on a misty night. The house is open, and initially the reception he gets is quite strange to him, he then realizes that he was taken for the relative of a dead man and that the gathering he encounters is a meeting of relatives regarding an inheritance that was left. By the time they find...Data dostępności:
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Easy To Kill – ebook
Hulbert Footner
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...Data dostępności:
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A Silent Witness – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
All the Dr. Thorndyke books are outstanding. This one is no exception. In this installment, the action centers on one Dr. Humphrey Jardine, who is the narrator of the story, and who himself is the focus of several strange events. Jardine’s troubles begin with a casual walk, where he comes across the body of a man and runs to fetch the police, only to come back and find that the dead man has disappeared....Data dostępności:
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Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This is a delightful Thorndyke mystery full of suspicious happenings, like the ugly human head found in a box checked at a railway station cloakroom. Other peculiar things are afoot too. A rich American gentleman has come to London to make a claim for an earldom, based on some far-fetched „evidence.” His lawyers seem particularly unsavory. And there’s been a daring robbery of precious platinum, with...Data dostępności:
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Death at the Inn – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank official after meeting him at the scene of a murder near the bank. He mentions in conversation that he felt suicide was a very understandable option to someone who had lost everything. When Gillum’s...Data dostępności:
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The Golden Pool – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
This novel begins with Robert Englefield, a young Englishman, taking on a job with a vessel sailing for northern Africa. Once there, Englefield is placed in the position of running the store through which the captain sells and trades his goods. As Englefield spends more and more time at this outpost on the African coast, he hears stories a legendary mine in the interior of Africa where the priests...Data dostępności:
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For The Defence – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Dr. Thorndyke is the CSI of his day. Most of the book is taken up with the account of how an innocent man gets himself thoroughly entangled in what looks like the certainty that he will be hanged, either for the death of a man he saw only once, or amazingly, for his own death! But, of course, Dr. Thorndyke is able to extricate him from this awful situation and triumph yet again. This is the amazing...Data dostępności:
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Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight – ebook
R. Austin Freeman
Mr. Pottermack, wrongly convicted for forgery of checks, has escaped from jail, made his fortune in the US and come back to England to find his fiance. The only one who is cleverer than Mr. Pottermack is Freeman’s detective, Dr. Thorndyke. In this novel, the sympathetic, engaging and enterprising Mr. Pottermack commits the perfect crime, only to discover that a perfect crime is the last thing in the...Data dostępności:
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