azw3, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]

The boy, snuffling into his handkerchief, looked bewildered but made no comment. ‘Well, what about bread and milk?’ A vision of her two little granddaughters spooning up their supper – ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Charteris, Leslie [Charteris, Leslie]

CHAPTER 7 “So even your arrangements can break down, Templar—when your accomplice fails you,” Kuzela remarked silkily. “My enterprising young friend, when you are older you will realise that it ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Charteris, Leslie [Charteris, Leslie]

6 He was back at Warsash in another twenty minutes, and as he stepped out of his car beside the inn he was just able to catch a sight of ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Charteris, Leslie [Charteris, Leslie]

CHAPTER SIX: HOW SIMON TEMPLAR INTERVIEWED MR INSELHEIM AND DUTCH KUHLMANN WEPT 1 It seems scarcely necessary to explain that Mr Ezekiel Inselheim was a Jew. He was a stoutish ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Charteris, Leslie [Charteris, Leslie]

9 The Saint’s lighter flared in the darkness, catching the exultant glint in his eyes under impudently slanted brows. When the light went out and left only the glow-worm point ...

azw3, epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Matt Haig

You had gone to school. The shop hadn't opened but I was sitting at the counter with some benzene, a clean rag and a dismantled late-Victorian bracket clock. Halfway through ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Cookson

They both gave a start as Ben sprang to his feet, all laughter and fun now gone from his face as he cried, “Don’t start putting things into her head. ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-25 | Author:Raffaella Barker [Barker, Raffaella]

August 28th We love the piglets so much that Giles and Felix are moving in with them. They have cooked supper, sausages unfortunately, on a little fire just outside the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Peter Robinson [Robinson, Peter]

NINE I They were going to church: the women smiling in their wide-brimmed hats and cotton-print dresses, the men ill at ease in tight ties and pinching waistcoats. Every Sunday ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-04-10 | Author:Holt ,Tom [,Tom, Holt]

"It must be wonderful to be in love," cooed Wellgunde. "I'm terribly jealous." "I'm not in any such thing," snapped her sister. "But I can understand you being jealous." Wellgunde ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Robinson [Robinson, Peter]

‘Those are the Islands over there,’ Gerry said, pointing towards a low hazy blur of green. ‘They’re just a long sandbar really, but everyone calls them islands. People live on ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1931-01-01 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

6 There came one morning to the London offices of Pasala Oil Products, Ltd. (Managing Director, Hugo Campard), a cable in code. He decoded it himself, for it was not ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1933-12-31 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

IX The Damsel in Distress "You need brains in this life of crime," Simon Templar would say sometimes; "but I often think you need luck even more." He might have ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

Chapter 6 How Simon Templar Interviewed Mr. Inselheim, and Dutch Kuhlmann Wept It seems scarcely necessary to explain that Mr. Ezekiel Inselheim was a Jew. He was a stoutish man ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1937-01-01 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

VIII Simon wanted seventy-three to finish, and the babble of chaff and facetious comment died down through sporadic resurrections as he took over the darts and set his toe on ...