From Edgar Wallace's relentless pacing to John Buchan's espionage classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of danger, pursuit, and hidden agendas. Erskine Childers's proto-spy intrigue, Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman-crook capers, Mary Roberts Rinehart's had-I-but-known suspense, and William Le Queux's invasion thrillers sit alongside contributions from Henry Rider Haggard, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, tracing the suspense and thriller s...

Phoenix Classics is the reference in classical works. All our works are of good quality and contain an active table of contents (HTML), which will make it easier for you to read. This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen] Mr Standfast [John Buchan] The Three Hostages [John Buchan] Greenmantle [John Buchan] The Island of Sheep [John Buchan] The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Bucha...

Drugged and abducted on the eve of his coronation, King Rudolf V of Ruritania is imprisoned in the castle at Zenda by his scheming half-brother. Afraid of the political unrest, the king’s advisors convince Rudolf Rassendyll, a distant English cousin, to pose as the king and maintain peace. With danger around every corner, and a blossoming romance with the lovely Princess Flavia, Rudolf must rescue the king and return him to his rightful place on the throne.Published in 1894, the po...

Prepare for danger, deception, and unforgettable twists. 30 Suspense & Thriller Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die brings together a thrilling collection of classic literature designed to keep readers turning the pages. These stories explore the darker and more exciting sides of fiction, where danger can emerge without warning and nothing is quite what it seems. Inside, readers will encounter mysterious disappearances, dangerous secrets, criminal schemes, psychological tension, d...

This file includes: Comedies of Courtship, Dolly Dialogues, Father Stafford, Frivolous Cupid, Half a Hero, The Indiscretion of the Duchess, The King's Mirror, A Man of Mark, Quisante, Rupert of Hentzau, The Secret of the Tower, Simon Dale, and Tristram of Blent. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembe...

Mr Carter and Miss Dolly Foster talk — about her engagement, his losses, other people's marriages — in a series of dialogues in which nothing is said outright and everything is understood. Hope was a barrister who thought up The Prisoner of Zenda walking home from a court case and wrote it in a month; these 1894 sketches are the other half of his talent, and they are as good as light writing gets.

Three years after Zenda: the queen's letter is in the wrong hands, Rupert of Hentzau is back in Ruritania, and the Englishman who once impersonated a king is asked to do it again — for a stake that cannot be given back. Hope was a barrister who thought up Zenda walking home from a court case and wrote it in a month; this sequel is the better book, and he had the nerve to give it the ending the first one avoided.

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Although this novel from Anthony Hope doesn't have the same level of swashbuckling sword play as his best-known work, The Prisoner of Zenda, it is still a fast-paced, action-packed read. Containing elements of mystery and romance, The Secret of the Tower explores unusual goings-on in the Tower Cottage, a centerpiece of the small English village of Inkston.

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The Prisoner of Zenda is a quintessential romance of adventure, set in the fictional kingdom of Ruritania, where English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll is drawn into dynastic intrigue after discovering his uncanny resemblance to the soon-to-be-crowned King Rudolf V. Combining swift plotting, courtly disguise, political conspiracy, and restrained emotional conflict, the novel helped define the "Ruritanian romance" as a literary mode. Its elegant prose and theatrical structure reflect late-Vict...