A story at Level 2 of a series of children’s illustrated readers which are graded at five levels, according to length and complexity of plot. The stories cover a wide variety of genres, and have both British and foreign settings. Paul Shipton narrates us how Phil thinks Grantford is boring, because nothing ever happens there, […]
John Milne write this exciting adventure called «The Long Tunnel«. Frank and his men were in the tunnel. The train alowed down and stopped. Frank quickly climbed up, opened the door of the guard’s van. he threw down the bags of money. ‘Move quickly’, he said to his men. ‘We haven’t much time.’
Salahadin is an inspector in the Egyptian police. His job is to protect Egyptian antiquitions. An antiquition is something which is very old, and archeologists studies them. One day, Salahadin’s friend who is an archeolohgist was going to visit him. Salahadin waited him, but he is murdered. In his room of hotel, there were some […]
Four men are trapped in the forest. Heavy rain has turned the tracks into mud. The bridge across the river is broken. They looked at the broken bridge and at the rushing water. How can they get back to base now?
Bill Ojo is a Young policeman. An old woman telephones him. She wants help. Bill goes to see her, but he does not come back. Inspector Holt must find before anything happens. While… “Where Is Bill Ojo?”
In “Three Sherlock Holmes Adventures”, Arthur Conan Doyle offers us the narrations that John H. Watson (‘Elemental, dear Watson’) review one and another time on the Holmes’s adventures. This book contains: “Silver Blaze”, “Thor Bridge” and “The Stockbroker’s Clerk”.
Alan’s face was very white. The end of the building was behind him. Silva was in front of him. There was no help for him! A young man on holiday in Rome finds himself caught up in an international spy plot. Who is «The Man with Three Fingers«?
‘He’s dead! ‘He’s dead!’ said the girl. Julia Forbes put one hand on the front of the Grey Rider’s coat. Then she looked at her hand. It was wet and red. Who killed «The Grey Rider«? A murder mystery with a difference: several possible killers, a dividided family and mrs Livingstone, an old lady and […]
‘There’s not much time, gentlemen… «The Glory Boys«, the killer team was complete: half-Arab and half-Irish. I wonder what brings these two together?’ Two men of different nationalities join forces to give glory to their own particular cause. Each holds different beliefs and motives, but both have the same determined aim: kill with their own […]
Eric Ambler (Londres, 1909 – 1998) fue uno de los más prolíficos autores de novela de espionaje y de guiones cinematográficos de su tiempo. Siendo ingeniero de formación, pronto se decanta por el mundo de la publicidad y por su afición a la literatura, que practica con éxito hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Durante el […]