Dick Donovan: 5 books

J.E. Preston Muddock was a prolific writer of mystery fiction whose work was, in its day, as popular as Arthur Conan Doyle’s. In these thrilling stories, Muddock writes under the guise of his fictional alter ego - the private detective Dick Donovan. From the murky underworld of Victorian London...

The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly...

When Tryphena Sabine unexpectedly inherits the imposing mansion of Tanglewood on the Yorkshire Moors, terrible memories are awakened of her unhappy girlhood, a doomed love affair, and the unwelcome attentions of Reginald Jarrald - ominously known as the Shadow Hunter. But when she reaches Tanglewood...

In these twenty-three stories from the Victorian and Edwardian period, strange things lurk in the Winter night. So gather round the Christmas hearth and revel in these classic tales of macabre mischief and sinister supernatural encounters - some of which are reprinted here for the first time since their original publication.

Hours of great reading await, with tales of war and military adventure by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranging from classics of the Civil War to the World Wars to the future of war -- and many other battlefields -- here more than 640 pages of military fiction! Included...