The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Cloak and sword romance set about 1813, with the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon. A mysterious house is occupied by a mad visionary, controlled by a French spy and his innocent daughter.—https://warwickdeeping.blogspot.com
Vitreous in texture is this tragedy of love and passion, which starts on the Riviera, reaches high tension in London, and shatters completely in Venice. Radnor falls victim to his charm for women, and tries to escape to Venice. Peopled with a gallery of definitely sketched characters, the story has a brittle quality which seems at variance with its heavier undertones.—Kirkus Reviews
The Red Dwarf in question is a make of fountain pen, which is found near the crime scene. The crime, of course, is murder, and the prime suspect is an unfortunate young farmer, John Leslie, who discovers the body of a fashionably dressed, blonde woman in his living room. Leslie has no alibi and the circumstantial evidence against Leslie is very strong and he is arrested and convicted. However, his fiancée, Lady Cynthia Bell, enlists the help of an old friend who has recently returned from India, the eccentric but shrewd Allen ‘Hatter’ Fayre. Fayre is convinced of Leslie’s innocence and soon discovers that there are many more suspects who could have shot a woman who, in a far from blameless life, had made many enemies.—Excerpt from promotingcrime.blogspot.com
Published in the U.K. as “Helen the Conqueror”. The trials and tribulations of farming wheat in the Manitoba prairies.
A love story of the Canadian woods, the hero a handsome young woodsman whose skill and personal charm attract the neurotic fancy of his employer's wife. Repulsed, she turns against him and does her best to wreck his career and destroy his happiness.—Wisconsin Library Bulletin, Nov 1926.
A realistic picture of the many forces at work within Communist China and of the bitterness of the conflict between them. A young American doctor treating a high-ranking member of the Communist regime becomes swept up in the internal intrigue, suffering harsh imprisonment. His eventual reunion with his lover, and the range of characters encountered, gives an authoritative picture of actual conditions.
The author undertakes to live for a time in a novel, for her, and challenging location. The book explores themes of isolation, pioneer life, nature, and the Canadian wilderness through her experiences and those of the people she encounters.
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