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Hornblower and the Crisis by Christian Rodska (Read by); C. S. Forester
Category: No Category | Series: Hornblower Ser.
Set in 1805, Hornblower and the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission that will light the powder trail leading to ...Show more
Payment Deferred (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by C. S. Forester
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own makingMr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family ...Show more
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that k ...Show more
The African Queen (Macmillan Collector's Library) by C. S. Forester
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her bro ...Show more
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