In this nail-bitingly tense thriller, a girl on a train finds herself in a terrifying situation when her traveling companion vanishes suddenly from their compartment. Every other passenger insists tha
In a rip-roaring journey of peril and adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies and the jungle beneath is home to
This selection of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories features 10 of his most wonderful creations—a thrilling mix of mysteries, adventures, science fiction, and horror. In these tales of shipw
Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people. What follows is one of the funnie
A brilliant scientist constructs a machine which propels him to the year AD 802,701. The time traveler finds himself on an idyllic Earth inhabited by the small, incredibly beautiful Eloi people who li
In 1960, Joy Adamson introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa—the lioness she had rescued as an orphaned cub and raised to adulthood at her home in Kenya. But, as Elsa had be
It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later Michael Harrison has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace&mda
Earth has become a Utopia, guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war, cruelty, poverty, and racial inequality. When the "Overlords" final
When a strange man turns up on his doorstep with stories of spies and assassinations, Richard Hannay is drawn into the murky world of international espionage. Four days later, the stranger is dead and
The Provincial Lady should lead a charmed, upper-middle class life in her Devonshire village, but with a husband reluctant to do anything but doze behind The Times, mischievous children, and trying se
