Hugh Greene Knihy

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY. The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police, and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle shed fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian age. All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion - a rare treat!

Do mlhavých ulic viktoriánského Londýna a ponurých blat zapadlých hrabství vykročil muž, který věru neměl „ani špinavé ruce, ani strach“, doprovázen svým přítelem, jemuž vděčíme za svědectví o jejich dobrodružstvích. Sherlock Holmes a dr. Watson. Právě se seznámili (v příběhu Studie v šarlatové (knižně poprvé 1887), podivínský génius a sportsman a veterán britské afghánské války, aby pomáhali pravdě a spravedlnosti, někdy tak těžkopádné. Dr. Watson ještě netuší, do jak zvláštního, groteskního světa plného záhad vstupuje. Díky jeho zápiskům jej můžeme následovat. V tomto svazku odhalíme ještě tajemství Podpisu čtyř (knižně 1890).

She drew off her left glove, a delicate, crinkled suede affair, and offered her bare hand to the surgeon...from the polished pink nails of the tapering fingers to the firm, well-moulded wrist, it was distinctly the hand of a woman of ease - one that had never known labour, a pampered hand, Dr Prescott told himself. "The forefinger," she explained calmly, "I should like to have it amputated at the first joint, please." - from Jacques Futrelle's The Superfluous Finger, just one of the stories from this first-rate collection of Edwardian tales of cosmopolitan crime. Cover design: Ivan Holmes

This work contains the following stories: Max Pemberton: 'The Ripening Rubies' Arthur Morrison: 'The Case of Laker, Absconded' Guy Boothby: 'The Dutchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds' Arthur Morrison: 'The Affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Ltd"' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Assyrian Rejuvenator' L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: 'Madame Sara' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Submarine Boat' William Le Queux: 'The Secret of the Fox Hunter' Baroness Orczy: 'The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway' R. Austin Freeman: 'The Moabite Cipher' Baroness Orczy: 'The Woman in the Big Hat' William Hope Hodgson: 'The Horse of the Invisible' Ernest Bramah: 'The Game Played in the Dark'

On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence.

Herausgegeben von Graham Greene und Hugh Greene, mit Illustrationen von Paul Flora. Das Buch umfasst 243 Seiten und enthält zahlreiche Zeichnungen.