Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
The Owl Taxi - cover

The Owl Taxi

Hulbert Footner

Publisher: Ktoczyta.pl

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Suppose you were a young and very rich New Yorker, and you suddenly lost all your money. Suppose you met a taxi-driver and for reasons good to both you agreed to exchange identities. Suppose, having started up Fifth Avenue in the old taxi at one a.m., you were about to admit your first fare when you discovered a dead body already occupying the car. Humor, espionage, romance, and adventure make this novel thrilling.
Available since: 03/08/2022.
Print length: 239 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Agatha Christie Collection - cover

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Agatha Christie

    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
    Whodunit? Find Out in the World's Best-Selling Mystery Collection.
    
    Step into a world of shadowed manor houses, high-stakes deception, and brilliant deduction. This definitive Agatha Christie Collection brings together the legendary cases that earned her the title of "The Queen of Crime." Whether you are traveling aboard the Orient Express or visiting the quiet, observant world of St. Mary Mead, these stories represent the gold standard of the classic detective novel.
    
    This curated anthology features Christie's most iconic sleuths:
    
    Hercule Poirot: The fastidious Belgian detective with "little grey cells" that never fail to solve the most impossible crimes.
    
    Miss Marple: The deceptively mild-mannered spinster who uses her deep knowledge of human nature to catch killers the police overlook.
    
    [Image showing a shelf of vintage-style mystery book spines with the titles 'And Then There Were None', 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', and 'Murder at the Vicarage']
    
    From the locked-room puzzles of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to the psychological suspense of And Then There Were None, this collection captures the wit, atmosphere, and ingenious plotting that have made Christie the best-selling novelist of all time.
    
    Sharpen your wits and join the investigation. Buy "The Agatha Christie Collection" today and solve the world's most famous mysteries.
    Show book
  • Interface - cover

    Interface

    Scott Britz-Cunningham

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants. The Interface has become a way of life, connecting all people to limitless information, nonstop personal messaging, and instantaneous news flashes. Gone are the days of cell phones and laptops—even loneliness itself is obsolete. But when the genius behind the Interface turns against his own creation and threatens to unleash a deadly electronic brain virus on the public, the fate of the world falls on NYPD Captain Yara Avril, who must stop this sinister, ever-escalating plot before it’s too late. A thrilling nod to a future waiting just around the corner, Interface is a remarkably prescient exploration of the potential links between boundless connection and cataclysmic disaster in digital society.
    Show book
  • Inside Information - A Novel - cover

    Inside Information - A Novel

    Eshkol Nevo

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    From the internationally bestselling author of Three Floors Up, a novel of psychological suspense exploring the vagaries of love and relationships through three interlocking stories. 
     
     
     
    A honeymoon in South America that should have been romantic becomes more nightmarish by the minute. 
     
     
     
    A senior doctor at a Tel Aviv hospital feels a powerful, inexplicable urge to protect a young female resident who has recently joined the internal medicine department. 
     
     
     
    A married couple goes out for their regular Saturday morning walk in the orchards on the outskirts of town. The man walks back into the orchard for a moment—and disappears without a trace. 
     
     
     
    Eshkol Nevo's darkest, most thrilling novel to date, Inside Information weaves together three turbulent and unconventional love stories, diving deep into the enigma that lies at the heart of all intimacy, whether between a man and a woman, a parent and a child, or a person and what they've lost.
    Show book
  • The Secret Agent - cover

    The Secret Agent

    Joseph Conrad

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "The Secret Agent" is a novel written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in the late 19th century and revolves around the activities of a group of anarchists and a plot to strike a blow against the oppressive government. The central character, Mr. Verloc, is a secret agent tasked with infiltrating the anarchist circles, but his personal motivations and the complexities of the political landscape lead to tragic consequences.
    Show book
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez - Sherlock Holmes - cover

    The Adventure of the Golden...

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
    One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins visits Holmes at 221B Baker Street to discuss the violent death of Willoughby Smith, secretary to aged invalid Professor Coram. Coram had dismissed his previous two secretaries. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place near Chatham, Kent, with a sealing-wax knife of the professor's as the weapon. Hopkins can identify no motive for the killing, with Smith having no enemies or trouble in his past. Smith was found by Coram's maid, who recounts his last words as "The professor; it was she."
    Show book
  • The Red Dahlia - Anna Travis Book 2 - cover

    The Red Dahlia - Anna Travis Book 2

    Lynda La Plante

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Detective Anna Travis is investigating the brutal murder of a young woman whose body was discovered in the Thames, brutalised and severed in half, a red flower in her hair. With the case bearing an eerie resemblance to the famous unsolved murder case of Elizabeth Short - known as the Black Dahlia - media interest intensifies, and fears of a copycat take hold. But with almost no clues, the case is slowly going cold. That is until the killer reaches out to the press... Determined to solve the case, Anna must keep her wits about her before the sadistic killer takes his next victim.
    Show book