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Meet schoolboy Chester Bentley, the world's most famous treasure hunter!All heroes begin as ordinary children and that's how it was with Chester Bentley. Unsurprisingly, he made the pages of the national and international newspapers, and so began his journey into notoriety as everyone started to follow his many adventures and marvel at his incredible discoveries.The Ghost of Asher Worth:It is 1588 and the Spanish Armada has been sighted on the horizon....

In the courage and unselfish love this book describes there is an inspiration for the world today. It is the story of Ned Langford, an ordinary young mid-western American who learned that something had happened to him, so terrible that it sent him into lifelong exile on a distant tropical island. The thing began, probably, in the years when young Ned served as a soldier in the Philippines, but he did not find out what had happened until years later....

New Weird Folk Horror intertwines with a troubled family history in the debut novella from Colin Hinckley! Eddie's parents may be arguing about the disappearance of his infant brother Danny, but Eddie's facing a terror all of his own. There's a strange figure outside that claims it has Danny safe and sound-all Eddie needs to do to get his brother back is open that window. Eddie's father is filled with guilt over his relationship with his own lost...

The secret to film is that it's only an illusion… or so he thought. London, April 1914. Against his better judgement, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn is attending the premiere of the new motion picture by notorious American film-maker Konrad Waechter. But the glamorous event is interrupted by the piercing screams of a young woman in the street outside. She has been viciously mutilated in a horrific accident which eerily echoes a macabre act of...

"Again Sanders" is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. 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. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was...

He'll sacrifice his safety …for a woman who could completely upend his Christmas. After Gage Graham saves her from drowning, Hope Fischer revives, determined to learn the truth about her sister's death. All she has to do is infiltrate a mysterious closed Virginia town and discover why the attractive-but secretive-Gage feels compelled to help her. Can she trust him? Will he risk being discovered by his former employer, the CIA, for a woman he just...

Hello, Nancy. You're at your usual locker at Fitness Plus. The time is 09:15. Your cell phone is dead, your home phone won't answer and your daughter, Beth, is home with the nanny. It will take you 18 minutes to get home. If you drive fast. Shame. You're already 18 minutes late... The kidnappers' only stipulation is that Nancymust tell her husband, Michael. The problem is, she doesn't know where he is, or how to contact him. But she recalls...

His inner demon wants to destroy the woman he loves. A psychic vampire stalks them both. The world around them suffers under a high-tech tyranny. How can they possibly survive? "Atmospheric and inventive" – Heather Child, author of Everything About You "Set in a strange near-future ... in a way reminiscent of the best episodes of Black Mirror" - goodreads review "A heady mix of legend, witchcraft, AI" - goodreads review "Infused with a sense of...

The stakes don't get any higher Dr Ava Curzon returns in the breathtaking sequel to bestselling thriller, The Sword of Moses When the Turin Shroud is stolen in a violent assault, archaeologist and former spy Dr Ava Curzon is plunged into a desperate struggle against the leader of an apocalyptic Russian cult. Recruited by the UK's clandestine MI3 intelligence agency – and aided by the Vatican's security division and her former colleague, Ferguson...

Scotland Yard's unlikeliest detective pair-- plucky Irish redhead Kathleen Doyle and British lord turned cop Michael Acton-- are on the trail of a serial killer in the third of Anne Cleeland's mystery series.