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  • Remarkable Rogues

    by Charles Kingston ...
    "Remarkable Rogues" by Charles Kingston is an engaging exploration of the lives of some of history's most notorious scoundrels. Kingston delves into the fascinating stories of these individuals, revealing their cunning schemes and audacious exploits. Each chapter presents a different rogue, showcasing their unique talents for deception and manipulation. The book not only entertains but also ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True Crime Short Stories

    Selected Shorts Collection

    by Oldiees Publishing, Charles Kingston ...
    Timeless collection of 20 selected true crime short stories. The stories have variety in style and subject, but are all masterpieces with enduring quality of writing.Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Highgate Mystery

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Suffering from a terminal heart condition, the penniless John Fergus is concerned for his family's welfare. How will his wife and daughter earn their living after his imminent death? His saviour appears to come in the shape of an old old schoolfriend, the rich businessman Sir Everard Oakes, who offers to settle a fortune on Fergus's family. But there is a terrible price to pay. For in return for ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • The Delacott Affair

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Gerald Delacott is a retired banker, who lives in genteel poverty with his children, waiting patiently for the day when his distant cousin will die, leaving him free to inherit the title of Earl of Holdsworth - and all the riches that go with it. When the newspapers report the death of the Earl, it seems that Delacott has got his wish. But when he and his children find their new wealth and ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Murder in Piccadilly

    by Charles Kingston ...
    „Murder in Picadilly” is a typical so-called „Golden Age” detective story published in 1936 and set in and around Soho. The story concerns the fortunes of a young man named Bobbie Cheldon. Bobbie has fallen head over heels in love with a nightclub dancer Nancy Curzon at „The Frozen Fang” nightclub but she is attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the fortune he expects to inherit. Bobbie’s miserly ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Brighton Beach Mystery

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “Listen to me... Gardyn Vanse was murdered in cold blood by one of you.”Walking home from her final performance with the Cheery Chums Concert Party, Corine Webster is sad to see the season at Brighton coming to an end - and anxious about her future in the precarious industry that is showbusiness. But these anxieties are soon put into terrible perspective. For when Corine discovers a murdered man ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Murder in Disguise

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    In the village of Numberstead, tensions are running high. Ivy Cardwell is at loggerheads with her father who will not let her marry David Malcolm. She is on even worse terms with the Vicar's daughter, Molly, her rival for David's affections. Meanwhile, Mr. Cardwell has entered into a conspiracy with David's widowed mother to suppress her dead husband's last will and testemant.As preparations get ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Mystery in the Mist

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    "The perfect crime. The phrase mocked him. There was no such thing because every man was endowed with a conscience."Philip Cragford: A man riven by jealousy, who spots the chance, one foggy night, to murder his love rival in a way that ensures no suspicion is ever likely to fall on him. Afterwards however, Cragford finds himself living in constant fear of giving himself away to his new wife - and ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Murder in Piccadilly

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"This is another entry in the attractive, period-style paperbacks in the British Library Crime Classics series. Pair Murder in Piccadilly with Freeman Wills Crofts' Antidote to Venom,also notable for its psychological acuity and also available in the same series." —Booklist'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Guilty House

    by Charles Kingston ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    The Bankdale Estate is a prestigious 'suburb of a suburb'; an exclusive enclave set aside for the better sort of commuter. Nothing interesting ever happens there, which is exactly to the taste of its conservative and unimaginative inhabitants. That is, until the body of a tramp is found murdered in the garden of Rendle Gray - a tragedy that sets in motion a chain of events which ensures that life ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    Classic Pirate Tales of Treasure, Mutiny, Haunted Seas, and Maritime Legend

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Kingsley, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, William Clark Russell, Harry Collingwood, Max Pemberton, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. H. G. Kingston, Charles Johnson, Maturin Murray Ballou ...
    The Pirate Bay Collection charts the pirate figure across history, purported true accounts, romance, adventure, Gothic terror, and sea narrative. Ranging from early modern chronicles to nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular fiction, it reveals piracy as both maritime reality and imaginative frontier: a site of violence, commerce, rebellion, empire, and freedom. Canonical tales of hidden ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    History of Pirates, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Charles Kingsley, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, Washington Irving, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, William Clark Russell, Harry Collingwood, Max Pemberton, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. H. G. Kingston, Charles Johnson, Maturin Murray Ballou ...
    Set sail on a thrilling literary expedition with *The Pirate Bay Collection: History, True Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels*, an anthology that captures the essence of nautical adventure through the ages. This collection offers an immersive foray into the tempestuous world of piracy, threading together tales of swashbuckling exploits, moral quandaries, and the eternal quest for freedom across ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus