Historical
mobi |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Chapter Six The red ship was close and was coming fast. Her bows were crowned with a black-​toothed dragon's head and filled with armed men in mail and helmets. She ...
( Category: Military July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2003-07-02 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Sir Guillaume had held the manor from its attackers for close on three months and did not doubt he could hold it indefinitely so long as the Count of Coutances ...
( Category: Military July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-09 | Author:Anthony Riches

Cornelius Felix rode west at a measured pace, using the light from the moon overhead to follow the road to the west as it ran parallel to the south of ...
( Category: Military July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-10 | Author:Agatha Christie

Chapter 20 Miss Johnson, Mrs Mercado, Mr Reiter I don’t mind confessing that the idea came as a complete shock to me. I’d never thought of associating Miss Johnson with ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Agatha Christie

N or M III In the end Commander Haydock, taking in the situation with commendable Naval rapidity, drove the car. Tommy sat beside him, and behind were Bletchley, Mrs Sprot ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Agatha Christie

Death Comes as the End II “What is all this?” Imhotep demanded as he came fussily into Esa's room a few minutes later. “Henet is deeply distressed. She came to ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Agatha Christie

Mrs McGinty's Dead III Half-way up the hill she met Robin Upward coming down it with a handsome platinum-haired young woman. Robin introduced them. “This is the wonderful Ariadne Oliver, ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Rhys Bowen

I arrived back home looking rather the worse for wear, having been squashed into a train and then a trolley with a sticky, dirty mass of humanity. I’d have loved ...
( Category: Historical Mystery July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Stephanie Barron

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Poet WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 1813 BRIGHTON, CONT. MR. SCROPE DAVIES, I AM TOLD, IS POSSESSED OF A complex character. Indeed, if I may believe the Earl of ...
( Category: Historical Mystery July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Agatha Christie

The Murder at the Vicarage Chapter XVII Inspector Slack came round to see me the following morning. He is, I think, thawing towards me. In time, he may forget the ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1996-01-31 | Author:Anne Perry

“You did what?” Farnsworth said, his face aghast. “Good God, man, do you realize what could happen as a result of this … this …” “No,” Pitt said brazenly. “What ...
( Category: Historical Mystery July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Dewey Lambdin

Or he's took by "barrel-fever" by now, Lewrie thought, seeing as how we're on our fourth bottle of wine 'twixt the four of us. And nought but Ben's been sippin' ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

Historical Note Lords of the North opens a month or so after Alfred’s astonishing victory over the Danes at Ethandun, a tale told in The Pale Horseman. Guthrum, the leader ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1996-10-05 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 6 “He's mad, Hogan,” Wellington said. "Stark mad. Gibbering. Should be locked up in Bedlam where we could pay sixpence to go and mock him. Ever been to Bedlam?" ...
( Category: Military July 22,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1994-08-14 | Author:Agatha Christie

Poirot knew the name as that of one of the best-known and most reputable private detective agencies in New York. “Now, Mr. Hardman,” he said, “let us hear the meaning ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )