Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 23

Adventure. Thrillers. Mystery. Detective. Book 23: 1. Smoky Cell; 2. The Table; 3. Sanctuary Island; 4. Eve's Island.


Crime novels:

1. Smoky Cell

... At ten o'clock that night the guards outside the prison walls were doubled and among them they had enough machine-guns to play havoc with a battalion. The warden of the prison had announced that he was taking no chances. Ben Guinney, he had said, might have escaped from Canyon City prison without his due dose of high-power juice, but he wasn't going to jump this dump. Rumours of an attempt at rescue had reached him and his reputation as warden was at stake...


2. The Table

"...Oh, no. He sometimes threatens to. Says he'll go out and buy a whip and teach me to obey him as Stark obeys him. But I don't think he would really do it. I think he knows that I can't help doing what he tells me. And that's what scares me, Paul. It may sound silly to you, but I'm terrified in case he should make me marry him against my will, just as he has made me do so many other things I didn't want to do..."


3. Sanctuary Island

 'Sanctuary Island' is a crime novel by this pioneer of detective fiction. 

«...ANYONE who had seen Elizabeth Anson as she lay, clad in her bathing-dress, with her dark hair shaken free and her hands clasped behind her head, allowing the warm sunshine to play on her golden-brown limbs, still glistening with sea water, would have found it hard to believe that she could have any cause to grumble against life. Yet, as she stared up at the blue of the sky, she was telling herself, as she had told herself often enough during the last two years, that life had cheated her.»


4. Eve's Island

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1909 'Eve's Island' is a novel about a man who founds a colony on an uninhabited island and battles to keep it out of the hands of the authorities.