The Agony Column
10 best books like The Agony Column (Earl Derr Biggers): The Low Road, The Adventures of Sally, Literary Lapses, Lodore, The Middle Temple Murder, Boston Blackie, Bat Wing, The Eye of Osiris, The Abandoned Room, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
| Author | Chris Womersley |
| ISBN | 1402798636 |
Unflinching, relentless, and powerfully written, The Low Road paints a searing portrait of two desperate men thrown together by chance as they both try to flee their troubled pasts. This savage noir surprises and grips at every turn. Young petty criminal Lee wakes up in a seedy motel with a bullet...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0140085041 |
I wanted to try P.G. Wodehouse because references to him started cropping up around me and also there's a set of really cool hardcover editions in my local book store (Book Soup). What I surmised is that he wrote the kind of novel that might have been made into one of those witty romantic comedies from the...
| Author | Stephen Leacock |
| ISBN | 1406814318 |
Canada’s own Stephen Leacock was a hard - albeit hilarious - nut to crack.
When he broke onto the world literary stage in 1910 with this collection of stories, the reaction was wildly mixed. Ordinary folks LOVED him.
And because of their hardcore support, Leacock soon became the...
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| ISBN | 1419131079 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | J.S. Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0486239101 |
All this led up to the appearance of Mr. Aylmore, M.P., in the witness-box. And Spargo knew and felt that it was that appearance for which the crowded court was waiting. Thanks to his own vivid and realistic specials in the Watchman, everybody there had already become well and thoroughly acquainted with...
Boston Blackie is a man who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie...
| Author | Sax Rohmer |
| ISBN | 1603121382 |
The review from afar – No. 16
Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:
Since emulating a yo-yo, I continue to rely on the old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the...
| Author | R. Austin Freeman |
| ISBN | 0755103564 |
John Bellingham is a world-renowned archaeologist who goes missing mysteriously after returning from a voyage to Egypt where fabulous treasures have been uncovered. Bellingham seems to have disappeared leaving clues, which lead all those hunting down blind alleys. But when the piercing perception...
| Author | Wadsworth Camp |
| ISBN | 1406841870 |
The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his will. As a consequence...
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
| Author | Emmuska Orczy |
| ISBN | 1419129090 |
There was a comment recently on a Lord Peter discussion group about "the Lady Molly stories", or Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. I'd never heard of them, so I did a search, and was surprised to find that they were written by the same author as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. A few minutes later I had the...
| Author | Margaret Widdemer |
| ISBN | 1153799146 |
A message of good cheer, of happiness, of love, is carried to the reader in this delightful story of Phyllis, who is the cheery "Liberry teacher" and Allan, a sad invalid whom she marries after a rather curious proposal to escape her life of drudgery. What follows is a humorous and heartwarming tale of...
| Author | Herbert Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0850461405 |
3.5 stars. This is a witty, somewhat fluffy British romance written in 1918. There's a meet-cute: Patricia Brent, a secretary in her twenties, lives in a boarding house with a bunch of rather catty gossips. One night she overhears a couple of them snidely commenting on her lack of dates. Incensed, she...
The Winning of Barbara Worth
| Author | Harold Bell Wright |
| ISBN | 1565544722 |
"The secret of [Harold Bell Wright's] power is the same God-given secret that inspired Shakespeare and upheld Dickens."
--Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
"It is this almost clairvoyant power of reading the human soul that has made Mr. Wright's books among the most remarkable works of...
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
| ISBN | 0803279434 |
Fame was just around the corner when Sinclair Lewis published Free Air in 1919, a year before Main Street. The latter novel zeroed in on the town of Gopher Prairie; the former stopped there briefly and then took the reader by automobile in search of America. Free Air heads toward a West that was brimming...
| Author | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
| ISBN | 1592243568 |
Now and then amazing things are done on this great stage of ours: lights go down; the back drop, which had given the illusion of solidity, reveals itself transparent. A sort of fairyland transformation takes place. Beyond the once solid wall strange figures move on -- a new mise en scene, with the old blotted...
| Author | Edgar Wallace |
| ISBN | 1842326589 |
The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison,...
| Author | Emily Eden |
| ISBN | 1409915921 |
The worst thing to happen to the season’s perfect couple: marriage
When the young and gorgeous Helen Eskdale met the wealthy aristocrat Lord Teviot, everything clicked. This was a couple that was meant to be—the match of the year, if not the ages. But in the rush to the altar, there was no...
Chilling in the extreme, The Lost Stradivarius is a classic tale of the supernatural. While practicing in his rooms in Oxford, gifted violinist John Maltravers notices a strange phenomenon: whenever a certain air is played, a mysterious presence seems to enter. Unable to rationalize this away, Maltravers...
The House Of A Thousand Candles
| Author | Meredith Nicholson |
| ISBN | 1406835285 |
1905. Nicholson lived and traveled extensively in Indiana and it was a rich resource for his writing. The House of a Thousand Candles provides readers with the view of an outsider coming to Indiana. The book begins: Pickering's letter bringing news of my grandfather's death found me at Naples early...
