The Thirty-Nine Steps
I was just fitting my key into the door when I noticed a man at my elbow. I had not seen him approach, and the sudden appearance made me start. He was a slim man, […]
The Andaman Express
Called in to investigate an unusual insurance claim, Finlay Nichols discovers something is seriously wrong with Thailand’s offshore gas fields. Propelled into an ultimate stakes game with the Burmese military government, he realizes that if […]
The Captain of the “Pole Star”
THE CAPTAIN OF THE "POLE-STAR." [Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M'ALISTER RAY, student of medicine.] September 11th.—Lat. 81 degrees 40' N.; long. 2 degrees E. Still lying-to amid enormous ice fields. […]
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
CHAPTER I—START IN LIFE I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first […]
King Solomon’s Mines
CHAPTER I – I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS It is a curious thing that at my age—fifty-five last birthday—I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what […]
