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  Murder at the Adolphus - The...

  M. & A. Volta

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Dallas, Texas. July, 1926. 
  Detective Bill Drey has seen enough of this city to know two things: how to ask the right questions — and how to listen to the silence that follows. 
  When a call pulls him to the Adolphus Hotel in the middle of the night, the scene is clean. Too clean. A locked door. A note. A merchant from Chicago dead on a Persian rug with a gun in his hand. The patrolman calls it obvious. Drey calls it a problem. 
  Because in Dallas, obvious is always the first layer. The one something hides under. 
  What begins as a single death in the finest hotel in Texas pulls Drey into a web of cotton money, Klan pins, and the kind of civic order that runs on silence and small favors. The city is building — cranes on the horizon, oil money changing the skyline — and men with clean hands and good suits will do a great deal to keep it that way. 
  Narrated in Drey's own voice — unhurried, precise, and bone-dry — Murder at the Adolphus is the first book in The Harwood Street Chronicles: a noir series set in the real streets of Dallas, where the Adolphus still stands on Commerce Street and Harwood is still just one block over. 
  For listeners who like their jazz slow, their bourbon neat, and their detectives honest in a city that isn't.

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  Richard Bruce - Burglar - Former...

  Edgar Wallace

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  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London.  Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook.  
   
  By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the Infantry being posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur.  
   
  In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing. His first collection of ballads, The Mission that Failed! was enough of a success that in 1899 he paid his way out of the armed forces in order to turn to writing full time.  
   
  By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press. 
    
  In 1911 his Congolese stories were published in a collection called Sanders of the River, which became a bestseller. He also started his own racing papers, Bibury’s and R. E. Walton’s Weekly, eventually buying his own racehorses and losing thousands gambling.  A life of exceptionally high income was also mirrored with exceptionally large spending and debts.  
   
  Wallace now began to take his career as a fiction writer more seriously, signing with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921. He was marketed as the ‘King of Thrillers’ and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce. He was truly prolific, capable not only of producing a 70,000 word novel in three days but of doing three novels in a row in such a manner. It was estimated that by 1928 one in four books being read was written by Wallace, for alongside his famous thrillers he wrote variously in other genres, including science fiction, non-fiction accounts of WWI which amounted to ten volumes and screen plays. Eventually he would reach the remarkable total of 170 novels, 18 stage plays and 957 short stories. 
   
  Wallace became chairman of the Press Club which to this day holds an annual Edgar Wallace Award, rewarding ‘excellence in writing’.  
   
  Diagnosed with diabetes his health deteriorated and he soon entered a coma and died of his condition and double pneumonia on the 7th of February 1932 in North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills. He was buried near his home in England at Chalklands, Bourne End, in Buckinghamshire.

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  The Secret War of 1834 - ZOMBIES...

  B. LeClere

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  A Tale of Transformation and Innovation. 
  A good man's quest had gone horribly wrong, causing a war weary young nation to struggle to survive. 
  In 1834 a doctor was searching for a way to cure his family and patients. He accidentally created a condition more terrible than the world has ever known. Two warring cultures must now band together to combat this new foe. 
  Across a mostly untamed America, where steamships and horseback are the fastest means of transportation, they knew they must outrun this enemy that was sweeping through the country like a virus. 
  Creating new weapons and adapting forgotten methods, they needed to prepare for an altogether different kind of war. 
  For if invention's mother is necessity, it's father must surely be desperation.

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells

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  Shooting stars tear across the night sky and from the planet of war they’ve come to conquer Earth. 
  When a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common, inquisitive locals are fascinated and excited. They approach with caution and a white flag only to be struck down by alien creatures with heat-rays that destroy everything in their path. It soon becomes very clear that the only options are to flee…or die. 
  As the creatures march towards the capital, can the forces of Earth survive the onslaught?

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  The Fanatics

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  Set against the backdrop of political unrest and social upheaval, The Fanatics is a powerful and thought-provoking novel that explores the consequences of ideology, conviction, and conflict upon individuals and communities. With insight and sensitivity, Paul Laurence Dunbar examines the passions that unite and divide people during times of uncertainty and change.
  
  The story follows characters whose lives become intertwined by events larger than themselves, forcing them to confront questions of loyalty, justice, belief, and personal responsibility. As tensions rise and competing ideals collide, each must navigate difficult choices that will shape their futures and test the strength of their principles.
  
  Combining vivid historical atmosphere with compelling character development, Dunbar creates a narrative that is both emotionally engaging and intellectually stimulating. His nuanced portrayal of human motivations reveals the complexities of political and social movements while emphasizing the enduring importance of compassion and understanding.
  
  Rich in drama, moral conflict, and historical detail, the novel offers readers a fascinating exploration of the forces that influence societies and the individuals who live through periods of transformation. Dunbar's skillful storytelling and keen observations of human nature bring depth and authenticity to every page.
  
  Perfect for readers who enjoy historical fiction, literary classics, and character-driven narratives, The Fanatics remains a compelling and relevant work that continues to resonate with modern audiences through its timeless themes and memorable storytelling.

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  The Legend of Tyl Ulenspiegel -...

  Charles de Coster

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  Flanders under the Spanish occupation, a boy born the same day as Philip the Second, and the ashes of his burned father worn in a bag round his neck. De Coster wrote the Flemish national epic in French in 1867, and it was ignored until after his death; Tyl the trickster becomes the resistance itself. Thirteen plates of Brueghel and Teniers bring the peasant world of proverbs, carnival and winter fairs that Tyl turns topsy-turvy into the book itself.

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