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30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces - cover
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30 Suspense and Thriller Masterpieces

Wilkie Collins, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Erskine Childers, William Le Queux, Frank Norris, Grant Allen, Henry Haggard, Arthur Griffiths, Edgar Wallace, John Buchan, Anthony Hope, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Allen Upward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Louis Joseph Vance, Marcel Allain, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Fred Merrick White, Thomas Hardy, William Andrew Johnston, knowledge house

Editora: knowledge house

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Sinopse

Anthologie contenant : 

A Royal Prisoner par Marcel Allain
The Thames Valley Catastrophe par Grant Allen
Mr Standfast par John Buchan
Greenmantle par John Buchan
The Island of Sheep par John Buchan
The Three Hostages par John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps par John Buchan
The Efficiency Expert par Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare par Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Riddle of the Sands par Erskine Childers
The Woman in White par Wilkie Collins
The Rome Express par Arthur Griffiths
Lysbeth par Henry Rider Haggard
Desperate Remedies par Thomas Hardy
Rupert of Hentzau par Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda par Anthony Hope
The Apartment Next Door par William Andrew Johnston
The Film of Fear par Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Green God par Frederic Arnold Kummer
The Czar's Spy par William Le Queux
The Pit: A Story of Chicago par Frank Norris
The Double Traitor par Edward Phillips Oppenheim
The Evil Shepherd par Edward Phillips Oppenheim
The Kingdom of the Blind par Edward Phillips Oppenheim
The After House par Mary Roberts Rinehart
The International Spy par Allen Upward
The Bandbox par Louis Joseph Vance
Four Just Men par Edgar Wallace
The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century par Fred Merrick White
The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril par Fred Merrick White
Disponível desde: 26/07/2020.

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