Espionage
The Secret Agent
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …
Greenmantle
Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…
The Octopus
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
Dead Run
THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES OF THE ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD WERE BAFFLED, HELPLESS. THE WORD WENT OUT: "CALL STEPHEN DAIN!" In broad day…
Democracy
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
Supermind
FBI agent Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as …
The Countess of Charny
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI a…
The Pauper of Park Lane
A spy-thriller with romance sprinkled all the way - Summary by Yoganandh T
Miss Pim's Camouflage
Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secre…
Counterspy
Counterspy is an old time radio espionage and thriller series featuring David Harding, the chief of US Counterspies. Brought to life by radi…
The Bond of Black
A tale of mystery, suspense, murder, romance and intrigue. Set in England at a time of omnibuses, shop girls, and societal changes together …
The Masquerader
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
Secret Agent K-7 Returns
Secret Agent K-7 Returns is a captivating radio series that began in 1932, preceding iconic characters like James Bond and The Man Called X.…
Strangers And Pilgrims
Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred although good-hearted 19 year old …
A Vital Question
Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth…
The Gray Phantom's Return
Former gentleman thief Cuthbert Vanardy, alias The Gray Phantom, must abandon his new life as a horticulturalist after he is implicated in t…
Quintus Oakes
There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…
Find the Woman
Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…
Anthem
Ayn Rand is best known for her classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. One of her earlier works, Anthem, is a dystopian vision of a wo…