The scene is the south of France. An English lady has been murdered and a beautiful American girl has disappeared. Discovered is a body with a severed hand and an opal bracelet...

It follows a Sapphire given to a Captain Michael Crowther by his Burmese wife who he is deserting. When he finally decides to return to them he finds them now out of his reach and...

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle is forced, for political reasons, into marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover, afterwards George I of England, but has a lover: Prince...

The Drum is an adventure novel by the British writer A. E. W. Mason which was first published in 1937. The book's action takes place on the Northwest Frontier of British...

Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, unwisely lets Elsie Marsh of the Casino de Paris wear his ancestral pearls, which react badly to her skin. In order to restore...

A British barrister takes the witness stand after becoming embroiled in a shocking murder in colonial India…Unassured of a family inheritance, Henry Thresk dedicates...

When Boris Waberski, brother-in-law of the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe, attempts to talk her English solicitors into advancing him money on his expectations as her heir, he is...

The Dean’s Elbow begins in a calm lagoon at the harbour of Canford Cliffs. It is here that Mark Thewliss brings his fiancé, Mona, to meet his pride and joy, the nine...

In this novel of adventure, intrigue and romance, The Road, snaking its way across the Indian frontier toward Afghanistan, will take on a life of its own, drawing three...

Julian Linchcombe is the remarkable heir to the Earl of Linchcombe’s estate and he has the voice of an angel. When he is taken to the festival of San Januerius in Italy to...