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Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane. Although it is the day of his daughter's wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with whom he has some business. Gray wanders into the garden and a tornado of... Read Full Overview

Room 13 is a children's novel written by the acclaimed award winning children's author Robert Swindells. Published in 1989, it is based from a real school trip and awarded the Children's Book Award, the novel centres around a group of friends, on a school trip, who stay in a... Read Full Overview

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and... Read Full Overview

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and... Read Full Overview

OVER the grim stone archway was carved the words: PARCERE SUBJECTIS. In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as "Parky Subjects"-it certainly had no significance as "Spare the Vanquished" for he had been neither vanquished nor spared... Read Full Overview

OVER the grim stone archway was carved the words: PARCERE SUBJECTIS. In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as "Parky Subjects"-it certainly had no significance as "Spare the Vanquished" for he had been neither vanquished nor spared... Read Full Overview

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective

Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective

Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane. Although it is the day of his daughter's wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with whom he has some business. Gray wanders into the garden and a tornado of... Read Full Overview

Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective

Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective

Room 13 is a 1924 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was the first in a series of books featuring the character of J. G. Reeder, a mild-mannered civil servant who is a brilliant detective

OVER the grim stone archway was carved the words: PARCERE SUBJECTIS.In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as "Parky Subjects"-it certainly had no significance as "Spare the Vanquished" for he had been neither vanquished nor spared.Day... Read Full Overview