Phoenix: 1848 books

Walter Schnaffs is a Prussian soldier unfortunate since its entry into France . It is pacifist , weapons horror , does not like walking and regrets above all his wife and their four children. So when he was sent on patrol in Normandy and the troop is attacked by snipers , he jumps into a hole to...

One couple had a son later on named John, it disappears at the age of five. They sell everything and travel the roads in search of their only son. Fifteen years later , still looking for him , they beg to survive. We advise them to go to Paris , in a church, the old seems to see in a young man ,...

Diary of a spa guest came spend twenty -five days from Chatelguyon to treat his liver , his stomach and lose a little weight . The meeting of two beautiful women pleasurable, comfortable...  

The Marinski affair began as a dull mundane case involving a missing husband. OK so he was a rich missing husband, but he was nonetheless, still only a missing husband. The case soon developed into one involving robbery, kidnapping, blackmail and murder. But was there really a kidnapping? And exactly...

Whittaker passed the drinks over. “Anyway, it seems that he’s got himself into a bit of bother,” he continued. “A very serious bit of bother.” “Bother?” repeated Kendall. Whittaker heaved a sigh. “Yes you know,” he replied. “Trouble.” Kendall nodded. “Oh trouble, I get you,”...

The lake was flat and calm, with barely a ripple, its dark waters glistening, reflecting the moonlight as though it were a mirror. Fritz Marschall knew that neither he, nor his friend, should really have been there. They, like many others before them, had been attracted to the lake by the many rumors...

The name’s Daniels, Jack Daniels – just like the whiskey you know. I’m a Private Detective. And I can’t help butting my nose into other people’s business. It’s what I do. You get used to it. It becomes a way of life almost. After a while it comes natural to you, automatic, like breathing,...

Tom Kendall, a down to earth private detective, is asked to investigate the death of a young newspaper reporter. The evidence shows quite clearly that it was an accident: a simple, dreadful accident. That is the finding of the coroner and the local police. Furthermore, there were two witnesses. They...

Tom Kendall had been with the 32nd Precinct, New York Police Department for just under ten years. But now he wanted a change. Now he wanted to start his own Private Detective Agency. He had grand ideas. He wasn’t interested in just any old case. Oh no, he would handle only the big time cases, the...

Civil War – the worst kind of war that any Nation could face. Fighting against itself there could be no winners in such a war, a war that divides communities; splits families; and makes enemies of long time friends. As the first sounds of gun fire echo through the land, two friends enlist on opposite...

"Mr. Kendall, in the past few months there have been a number of doctors who have mysteriously disappeared, or whose deaths were either alleged to be ccidents, or were suicides, or they were actually murdered."    Kendall made a mental note to find out about these 'other  doctors.'...

There were once three brothers who had fallen deeper and deeper into poverty, and at last their need was so great that they had to endure hunger, and had nothing to eat or drink. Then said they, "We cannot go on thus, we had better go into the world and seek our fortune...

Fenimore Cooper, ce grand poëte égaré chez un peuple de marchands, a fait un beau livre avec un colporteur. Son colporteur, à lui, était un espion, et personne de ceux qui lisent n’a oublié la pittoresque physionomie d’Harvey Birch, ce fidèle partisan de l’indépendance américaine.

Le bal n’aime pas l’automne, car l’automne est une saison mixte qui ne réveille de sympathie qu’au cœur des poëtes et des chasseurs ; c’est le temps des dithyrambes et des perdreaux. Les gourmets aussi la tiennent en quelque estime à cause des cloyères...