<p> „Again Sanders” is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. The situation appears calm in the colonial area of the Sanders. But dark clouds are gathering on the horizon and the Captain Hamilton and the inexperienced Lieutenant Bones need to pass some exciting adventure before you can enjoy life on the power again. The tales are all loosely connected and center on Lt. Augustus „Bones” Tibbetts. Part of his famous „African novels” („Sanders of the River” series), this volume is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed others in the series, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection.</p>
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<p> Though dated stylistically, this novel has the makings of a decent movie thriller. The story takes place between the Anschluss, the Nazi takeover of Austria, March 1938, and the invasion of Poland in September 1939. A wealthy Jewish banker, philanthropist, and art collector is forced to flee Vienna to avoid imprisonment by the Nazi’s. He disappears on the night the Germans march into Austria, and his fortune and collection vanishes with him, leaving behind his personal secretary, Pamela Grey, and his agent, the mysterious Marius Blute.</p>
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<p> „It is imperative that active steps must be taken to preserve England’s supremacy, and at the same time frustrate this aggressive policy towards us which is undoubtedly growing. I need not tell you that the outlook is far from reassuring. As a diplomatist you know that as well as I do. The war-cloud which rose over Europe at the end of the last Administration is still darkening. It therefore behoves us to avoid a repetition of the recent fiasco at St. Petersburg with regard to Port Arthur, and strive to prevent foreign diplomacy from again getting the better of us. You quite follow me? „</p>
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<p> The hapless Heine is trying very hard to be a good German spy in Great Britain during WWI but luck and circumstance are not with him. Every adventure turns out poorly for our dear spy. This collection of stories of Edgar Wallace about Heine was published during WWI and should be taken lightly by readers – some may see it as a piece of anti-German propaganda, with Heine as a bit of a hopeless idiot. But the stories are also entertaining and should be read as such. Although these stories of German spy Heine are all linked and follow on from each other it is still very much a short story collection rather than a novel.</p>
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<p> This collection of stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life – the Sanders stories – was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. He was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kipling’s famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own tales of ordinary British soldiers. Edgar Wallace’s „Smithy” stories enter the First World War, not much mud and bullets or the horror of the trenches, instead it’s Nobby’s schemes and delightfully silly comic description of life with the Kaiser.</p>
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<p> Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army during the First World War. Edgar Wallace published three more collections about Smithy and Nobby and many, many more uncollected stories about them in magazines and newspapers.</p>
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<p> The master mystery-story teller presents an omnibus of his spine-chilling stories. „The Edgar Wallace Reader of Mystery and Adventure” is a collection of short stories that include „On the Witney Road”, „The Pick-Up”, „Kid Glove Harry”, and thirteen others. Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time „the king” of the modern thriller. Wallace’s literary output – 175 books, 24 plays, and countless articles and review sketches – have undermined his reputation as a fresh and original writer. Moreover, the author was a wholehearted supporter of Victorian and early Edwardian values and mores, which are now considered in some respects politically incorrect.</p>
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'Unbedingte Kaufempfehlung!' (Lektoratsdienste – ekz) 'Einer der mitreißendsten Schriftsteller der Welt' (Poets & Writers Magazine) 2013 gewann Benjamin Alire Sáenz mit 'Alles beginnt und endet im Kentucky Club' (original: 'Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club') den PEN/Faulkner Book Award. 'Es könnte jederzeit passieren. Der Finger reckt sich, legt sich um den Abzug, und eine Kugel schwirrt durch die Luft. So läuft es mit der Erinnerung.' El Paso, Texas – Juárez, Mexiko. Hier spielen die sieben meisterhaft erzählten Geschichten, in denen es darum geht, wie es ist, in einer Stadt zu leben, die geteilt ist in zwei, in zwei gegensätzliche Welten, die trotz allem verbunden sind durch das Schicksal ihrer Bewohner. Benjamin Alire Sáenz atemberaubendes Spiel mit Grenzen – zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit, Nüchternheit und Sucht, Hass und Liebe, Weisheit und Naivität – mit sexuellen, sinnlichen, geographischen Grenzen sind Thema seiner berührenden und trotzdem nie sentimentalen Geschichten. Und alle sind verbunden mit dem berühmten Kentucky-Club in Juarez, zwei Blocks südlich des Rio Grande, und Sáenz lädt uns ein, an der alten Mahagoni-Bar sitzend, ein kühles Bier oder eine Margarita zu trinken und seinen berührenden, manchmal witzigen, manchmal melancholischen Erzählungen in diesem bemerkenswerten Buch zu lauschen. Der Kentucky Club ist die älteste Bar in Juarez / El Paso, die berühmt wurde durch Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Steve McQueen und vor allem Marilyn Monroe, die hier ihre Scheidung von Arthur Miller feierte.
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